Standing Up for 9-11 Truth

Over the last several years, few things have bothered me as much as the so-called "9-11 Truth" movement. For the uninitiated, this movement is a large and diverse group of people, comprised primarly of private citizens and university professors all over the world who believe that the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, were perpetrated by President George W. Bush, or others high-up in the government. There are many theories floating around the net as to what actually happened, but most focus on the "facts" that the WTC towers and WTC 7 were destroyed in controlled demolitions; the Pentegon was not hit by United Airlines Boeing 757 (current favorite: it was probably a missile fired by a small commuter plane, like a Learjet); and United 93 did not crash but was diverted to somewhere in Ohio (no one can say what happened to the passengers).

I have spent many hours scouring the internet for good information, photo archives, anything that challenges the conspiracy theories currently running roughshod over the truth. But finding information on the web that supports the truth is a much harder task than you might imagine. If you go to any major seach engine and type "9-11 attacks," "9-11 photos," "World Trade Center attacks," "Pentagon attack," etc., you will be presented with am enormous list of websites all supporting one conspiracy theory or another.

A recent poll have shown that nearly 50% of New Yorkers believed that the U.S. Government had some complicity in the attacks (it should be noted that this poll was conducted on behalf of 911Truth.org, a very extreme conspiracy website). I believe that that numbers like that reflect the difficulty the average citizen has in getting good information about what happened that day; all they see are websites peddling lies (repeated so often and in so many places they have become "common knowledge"), non-expert analysis (although well written, well presented, and with enough technical jargon to convince the average Joe of it's veracity), and cherry-picked facts and qoutes that support the claims of the conspiracy theorists.

In that light, I would like to put out some links to some webpages with good information and analysis that I have finally discovered after hours of seaching. I hope you find them informational and informative:

Memri.org - Middle East Media Research Institute. Contains a number of good reports on items like the supposed Israeli and Jewish involvement in the attacks.
Political Research Association - This group is very concerned about the "Religious Right's" involvement in politics, so I wouldn't normally recommend them, but they do have good stuff on 9-11 conspiracism, which this link goes directly to.
911Myths.com - This should be your one stop shop for all things debunking 9-11 conspiracies. Execelent analysis, plenty of photos, and links to other good information.
Mike J. Wilson's 9/11 Report - An excellent computer recreation of what happened at the Pentagon.

There are more, I will add them as I have time. But many of the better sites are linked to at 911Myths.com.