{"id":354,"date":"2014-03-20T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=354"},"modified":"2014-03-20T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:06:22","slug":"world-experts-to-debate-was-911-an-inside-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2014\/03\/20\/world-experts-to-debate-was-911-an-inside-job\/","title":{"rendered":"World Experts to Debate ‘Was 9\/11 an Inside Job?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tuesday April 1st, 2014
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 7.00 – 9.00pm
\nVenue:\u00a0<\/strong> Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Kent University, Canterbury<\/p>\n

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The views of the ‘9\/11 truth movement’, which\u00a0has long argued that\u00a0the government\u00a0must have had some kind of assistance\u00a0in staging the\u00a0attacks of 9\/11, have been widely criticised in many quarters for being based on supposedly flimsy and outrageous speculation, and for being disrespectful to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n

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Edward Shambrook, a playwright at Kent University is currently producing a play about the allegedly misdirected and mistaken ‘9\/11 truth movement’.\u00a0 In advance of launching his play, he will lead one side of a formal debate at Kent University, arguing in support of the official story about 9\/11 that 19 Saudi and Afghan terrorists hijacked 4 airliners and successfully evaded the US air defence system, resulting in two of the airliners crashing into the Twin Towers; the ensuing fires from the jet fuel causing both towers to collapse; and that office fires in the nearby World Trade Centre Building 7 caused it to also collapse later in the day. He will argue that this official explanation has been accepted by almost all quarters of the mainstream media because it is the most logical and reasonable explanation of what happened that day. To quote Bill Maher, \u201cHow big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam <\/i>into buildings on live<\/i> TV igniting a massive<\/i> inferno that burned for two hours and then think, “Well, if you believe that<\/i> was the cause?” He will argue that these theories are based on nothing more than logical fallacies, and that the \u201cscientific evidence\u201d given to promote these theories is somewhat questionable.
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On the other side of the debate, two promoters of the \u00a0‘9\/11 truth movement’ will be arguing that this official version of events is not the complete and accurate story, and that other influences must have been\u00a0involved.\u00a0 Putting the evidence and arguments forward for this\u00a0position will be Professor Niels Harrit, an experienced, retired Professor of Chemistry at Copenhagen University. Professor Harrit will present evidence focussing in particular on the mysterious and total collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7, a 47 storey High Rise Tower not struck by a plane, but which collapsed at 5.20pm on 9\/11 in perfect symmetry and in less than 7 seconds.\u00a0 Professor Harrit will present his evidence for the alleged presence and use of high tech explosives.\u00a0 Joining Professor Harrit will be Ian Henshall, the UK’s leading author on the evidence allegedly contradicting the official story\u00a0of 9\/11, in particular, evidence that intelligence agencies knew that an attack was imminent and that they should have been able to prevent it.\u00a0 They will point towards the December 2013 revelation that two members of US Congress, who have been granted special permission by Congress to view 28 redacted pages of the 9\/11 Commission Report,\u00a0have been shocked by what they have\u00a0read in those previously concealed pages,\u00a0and are currently demanding that President Obama release these 28 pages for all of Congress to see.<\/p>\n

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The debate is likely to be a lively and controversial affair, and a sizeable and very divided audience is expected to attend.
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For further information, contact Peter Drew at peter.drew87@hotmail.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or Edward Shambrook at edwardshambrook@googlemail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Event Page for the debate:<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/events\/495953840515073\/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Architects and Engineers for 9\/11 Truth\u2019 webpage:<\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ae911truth.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Link to the Facebook page of \u2018A Skeptic\u2019s Love Letter\u2019:<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/SkepticsLoveLetter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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