http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/04/17/al-qaedas-top-gun/

And you’re welcome to explain to everyone how fire could have caused, following the collapse of the core of WTC 7, all the perimeter columns to fail simultaneously resulting in a near free-fall collapse, and an achieved actual-free-fall acceleration for nearly 2.5 seconds.

Once you eliminate the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, must be the truth.

Yes, the Facts should matter.
The word ‘Fact’ seem preferable to ‘Truth’ since Truth implies something more nebulous.

Am working to compile a brief list of significant, but little-known, 9/11 Facts.
Something that can be given/sent to reporters, editors, publishers, govt officials, as well as workaday Americans especially (not to exclude non-Americans, just that Americans need to know the facts & take responsibility). Hope to coordinate with you at some point.

9/11 served as the pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for implementing policies sought prior to 9/11 for which public consent would not have been possible, such as the “transformation” of the military into a force for global hegemony, warrantless surveillance of Americans, and so on.

What doesn’t add up is the official conspiracy theory. We know the CIA knew Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi were al Qaeda associates (al-Midhar suspected of involvement in the USS Cole bombing) and that one or both had obtained a visa to enter the U.S. at a time when “the system was blinking red”. And yet the CIA withheld this information from the FBI, State Department, and INS. This is all admitted and non-controversial.

There is a precedent in that the Blind Sheikh, the spiritual leader of the terrorist cell that bombed the WTC in ’93, had multiple visas (at least 6) approved not by the State Department, but by CIA officers working at the consulate in Jeddah. This is also admitted and non-controversial, and squares with testimony from former consulate officer Michael Springman, who said that the CIA would bring terrorists into the U.S. for training during the Soviet-Afghan war, in which the CIA operated alongside Osama bin Laden in his organization that evolved into al-Qaeda. That same organization had an alias of Al-Khifa, which was a recruitment center associated with the Blind Sheikh and his terrorist cell.

Moreover, the FBI had foreknowledge of the ’93 plot, and at least two informants in the cell. One of those informants was the Sheikh’s bodyguard, who recorded his debriefs with his FBI handlers. Those recordings, presented in court, showed that a plan to replace an ingredient in the bomb with an inert substitute, thus allowing the FBI to make the bomb a dud and perform a sting operation, was killed by a senior FBI official. The cell was allowed to go forward with building a real bomb, which was then used to bomb the WTC.

Set conspiracy theories aside. None of this is controversial information. It’s all on the record, all documented, all admitted. There are reasonable questions that many people have about 9/11. What is clear is that the government, rather than providing answers to those questions, has deliberately sought to cover up and hide information about what really happened from the public.

Why?