Who really blew up the twin towers?
Shards of glass and dust from the World Trade Centre towers sit on Professor Steven Jones’s desk at Brigham Young University in Utah. Evidence, he says, of the biggest cover-up in history – one too evil for most to believe, but one he has staked his academic career on exposing. The attacks of September 11, Jones asserts, were an “inside job”, puppeteered by the neoconservatives in the White House to justify the occupation of oil-rich Arab countries, inflate military spending and expand Israel. “We don’t believe that 19 hijackers and a few others in a cave in Afghanistan pulled this off acting alone,” says Jones. “We challenge this official conspiracy theory and, by God, we’re going to get to the bottom of this.” While this sinister spin strikes most American academics as absurd, Jones, a physics professor, is not alone. He is a member of 9/11 Scholars for Truth, a recently formed group of around 75 US professors determined to prove 9/11 was a hoax. In essays and journals, they are usin
