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Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theorist Offers $100,000 Prize

12-13-2004 | Larry Fine | Yahoo

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jimmy Walter has spent more than $3 million promoting a conspiracy theory the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were "an inside job" and he is offering more cash to anyone who proves him wrong.

The millionaire activist is so convinced of a government cover-up he is offering a $100,000 reward to any engineering student who can prove the World Trade Center buildings crashed the way the government says.

"Of course, we expect no winners," Walter, 57, heir to an $11 million fortune from his father's home-building business, said in a telephone interview from California on Wednesday. He accuses figures in government, the military and business of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Walter said a panel of expert engineers would judge submissions from the students.

Next month, he also launches a nationwide contest seeking alternative theories from college and high school students about why New York's World Trade Center collapsed. The contest offers $10,000 to the best alternative theory, with 100 runner-up awards of $1,000. Winners will be chosen next June.

The World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed after hijackers from Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda militant group slammed two commercial airliners into them. The attack in New York killed 2,749 people.

Various official investigations give no credence to Walter's theory. A Sept. 11 commission spokesman said its policy was not to comment on criticism of the report.

Walter insists there had to be explosives planted in the twin towers to cause them to fall as they did, and also rejects the official explanation for the damage done at the Pentagon (news - web sites).

"We have all the proof," said Walter, citing videotapes and testimony from witnesses.

"It wasn't 19 screw-ups from Saudi Arabia who couldn't pass flight school who defeated the United States with a set of box cutters," he said. He dismissed the official Sept. 11 commission report, saying, "I don't trust any of these 'facts."'

Walter has spent millions of dollars to bolster support for his case, running full-page ads in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Newsweek, as well as alternative newspapers and 30-second TV spots.

He points to a Zogby poll he commissioned last summer that showed 66 percent of New Yorkers wanted the 9/11 investigation reopened.

Walter has spent about 30 percent of his net worth on his efforts.

"I am a patriot fighting the real traitors who are destroying our democracy. I resent it when they call me delusional," he said.

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Cassius

I think the guy might be off his rocker, but I also think that people like him are exactly what keeps this country strong. More power to him!

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Plainsman1963

Resents it...But doesn't deny it.

Zilos

As if that's ever gonna happen, even if he is proven wrong, he ain't gonna let anyone know so he has to pay up.

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S2

I htink you're right Zilos

MickityMike

Oh, Jesus.

Plane hits with enough force that the fireproofing material sprayed on the structural steel literally flies off, leaving the steel naked.

Impact of plane + jet fuel = ****load of energy. Results in obvious structural damage, but that's not the fatal condition - the fire burns hotter than the melting point of steel is; floors begin collasping, or "pancaking" together.

The weight and momentum of each floor is added to the one below, surpassing the structural integrity of the building. It's a chain reaction.

Think this goofy bastard will pay me? Anyone...?

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jewishjake420

I think the article said he would only pay engineering students. If you are kudos to you.

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gurney man

and people call us burn-outs....Why is it always rich people that are so delusional?

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MickityMike

Heh, probably because they can afford to be.

HappyMan

It seems simple to me.

A Large heavy object full of avation fuel traveling fast hits a stationary object full of flammable objects.......it's gonna do a heck of alot of structural damage then the fire is going to start melting things........

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