TY - BOOK AU - Griffin, David Ray, AU - Scott, Peter Dale. TI - 9/11 and American empire SN - 9781566566605 v.2;9781566566599 v.1 AV - HV 6432.7 .A89a 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Northampton, MA PB - Olive Branch Press KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - War on Terrorism, 2001- N1 - v. 1 Intellectuals speak out / edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott -- v. 2. Christians, Jews, and Muslims speak out / edited by Kevin Barrett; , John Cobb, Jr., and Sandra Lubarsky; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Were the military and the FAA really that incompetent? Were our intelligence-gathering agencies really in the dark about 9/11? How could so much go wrong at once, in the world's strongest and most technologically sophisticated country? Both the government and the mainstream media have tried to portray the 9/11 truth movement as led by people who can be dismissed as "conspiracy theorists." This volume shows this caricature to be untrue. Coming from different academic disciplines as well as from different parts of the world, the authors are united In the conviction that the official story about 9/11 is a huge deception manufactured to extend Imperial control at home and abroad."www.powells.com" ER -