Academic research on 911

[xmasdale]

Morgan Stack of the Irish 9/11 Truth movement has sent us these references.

Noel


1. Avoidance by left of 9-11 issues
David MacGregor
King's College
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

2. Pakistani/Afghan connection to 9/11
Morgan Stack
Department of Accounting, Finance & Information Systems
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland.

3. 9-11, the operational event (insider trading beforehand, what was in the WTC, the attacks themselves, probably excluding judgement on what hit the Pentagon)
Paul Zarembka
Editor, Research in Political Economy
Department of Economics
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York 14216, USA
(Phone: 716-645-2121 ext. 438)

4. What we now know about the alleged 9-11 hijackers
Jay Kolar
Free-lance writer
Lake Havasu City, Arizona USA

5. Stand-down/war-games
Four Arrows (aka Donald Trent Jacobs)
Department of Teaching and Learning
College of Education
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona USA

6. WTC collapses, perhaps Pentagon
Steven E. Jones
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, USA
and
Jeff Strahl
School of Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

7. Anthrax attacks, possibly other post-9-11 intimidation
Nicholas Levis
Book editor, researcher, translator, consultant, reporter
New York City, New York USA

8. Non-independence of 9-11 Commission
Bryan Sacks
Department of English and Philosophy
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
and
College of Lifelong Learning
Immaculata University
Immaculata, Pennsylvania, USA

9. Neocon extremism (fascism?) and the Patriot Act
David Gabbard
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina, USA
and
Karen Anijar
Elementary Education
College of Education
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA

10. Islamophobic pretext for the continuing US war for world control
Diana Ralph
School of Social Work
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[Sinclair]

A Research Project is currently being undertaken by Liverpool, Greenwich & Ulster universities.

Details are at http://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/releases/2004/1273.html.

I posted about this ealier (Greenwich University) but the URL I quoted is now dead.

It would be interesting to see how any research would deal with any anomolies, which don't fit into the 'Official Story'

Sinclair
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University Team Probes Twin Towers Safety
15 July 2004

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Researchers from the University of Ulster are to take part in an international safety project that aims to interview more than 2,000 survivors of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.

The £1.6m study will be the biggest-ever involving people caught up in the terrorist attack on New York's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

A team from the university's Institute for Fire Safety Engineering Research and Technology (FireSERT) led by Professor Jim Shields - along with researchers from the Fire Safety Engineering Group of the University of Greenwich led by Prof Ed Galea and the Centre for Investigative Psychology of the University of Liverpool led by Prof David Cantor - will aim to find out which elements in the towers' design helped or hindered their escape.

While several studies are already under way into structural issues, less attention has been paid to the way the buildings were evacuated.

Professor Shields said : “The survivors of the World Trade Center September 11th 2001 disaster are key to our understanding of how to design a safer built environment.

"Their individual and collective experiences could significantly influence the next generation of performance based building codes and the design of medium and high rise.

"The project will involve substantial knowledge and technology transfer, with the data obtained being archived and made available to all bona-fide researchers.”

Chief researcher, Professor Ed Galea, from the Fire Safety Engineering Group at the University of Greenwich in London, claims that better staircase design could have saved more than 1,000 lives.

About 1,400 people were trapped above the 91st floor of the center's north tower after the jet smashed all three emergency stairways - which were located close together at the core of the building.

Professor Galea has already shown that, if even one staircase had survived, there would have been time to get most people out before the tower collapsed.

The new three-year project, called HEED (High-rise Evacuation Evaluation Database), will bring together engineers and psychologists.

The latter will play a crucial role in obtaining useful information from the survivors, many of whom are still likely to be traumatised by their experience.

HEED is funded by a £1.6m grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

For further information, please contact:

Press Office, Department of Public Affairs
Tel: 028 9036 6178
Email: pressoffice@ulster.ac.uk

[Pete 2]

Details of the WTC Evacuation Study being carried out by
University of Greenwich, University of Ulster & University of Liverpool are at this web site http://fseg2.gre.ac.uk/HEED/

Contact details of the researchers involved are at http://fseg2.gre.ac.uk/HEED/HEED_project_team.html

The research project was due to start in September 2004, but appears to have been delayed ???!!!

How ill the researchers deal with any inconsistencies?

[Andrew Johnson]

I sent them this letter/e-mail....
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Dear Madams/Sirs,

I am writing with regard to the WTC Evacuation Study that is mentioned/discussed on this Web Page:

http://fseg2.gre.ac.uk/HEED/HEED_project_team.html

It is interesting to find that some further academic study of this terrible event may be undertaken. It seems to me that this could be quite a controversial subject - and not necessarily for the reasons that most people might immediately think of.

Before any serious study such as this is undertaken, I think it is worth considering the Basic Science and Physics behind what actually took place at the WTC on that terrible day. After 3 years of thinking that the terrible impacts caused the collapse of the towers, I realised, following an educational video I saw, that this alone could not possibly be the case. Being a graduate of Computer Science and Physics (Lancaster University, UK, 1986), I felt I must check the facts and figures the video had presented. I found them to be correct, and therefore put together (as have a number of people) my own analysis of what caused the collapse, based on the Laws of Motion.

The conclusions that this proof gives are controversial (as I had seen in other similar discussions) and I therefore felt it only right to post the proof on a Science Forum ("Physics.org") for comment and criticism.

The results of doing this were interesting, and have not changed my conclusions. As members of the academic community, I invite you to peruse this thread and form your own opinions. Here is the link.

http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?s=4e4d0a5f7de739398d7a63535c20e768& showtopic=3108&st=0

Perhaps you may choose to post your own comments there, for the benefit of others. I would also be happy to hear from you with any comments that you may have.

Thank you for reading this message, and may I take this opportunity to wish you every success with this project and any others you are engaged with.

Yours,

Andrew Johnson
UK

[ian neal]

The interim steering group (formed at the national conference) are currently discussing how we move forward. One proposal that certainly has my support is to separate this website and network from a more formal campaign organisation. The campaign organisation would then be able to apply for funding to research and campaign for 9/11 truth. (Further details on request)

With this in mind I was interested to come across this website

I have also written to the course director of this university course to introduce ourselves

[Jim]

I'm giving Dr. Simon Blake, University of Greenwich a copy of the Confronting the Evidence DVD next week.

Refs:

1. http://www.pentoncustommedia.com/sfpe/articles/FALL2005Galea.pdf - Fire Protection Engineering Magazine article by Prof. E. Galea

2. http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/BDAG_project.html - University of Greenwich Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) home page

3. http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/odpm_fire_033353.pdf - FSEG Report on WTC fire evacuation by Prof. E. Galea and Dr. S. Blake