Paul Craig Roberts: World Trade Center buildings were blown up on 9-11
Comments imply government role
By Peter Duveen
PETER'S
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2009--Reagan Administration treasury official and
author Paul Craig Roberts said yesterday he believes the Twin Towers of
of New York City's World Trade Center did not collapse from aircraft
impacts, but were taken down by explosives.
On
the morning of September 11, 2001, two commercial jets collided with
each of the Twin Towers. U.S. government accounts consistently assert
that the buildings collapsed because they were weakened by fire and
mechanical damage resulting from the jet impacts. But a growing number
of critics of the government's version insist the buildings were taken
down by a carefully arranged sequence of explosions known as a
controlled demolition. Extensive video documentation exists of the
destruction of the two buildings and surrounding structures.
"Any
fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down,
they're blowing up," Roberts said on the Alex Jones radio program out
of Austin, Texas, in a telephone interview.
Roberts's
remarks emerged during comments on the behavior of police, particularly
in response to a recent event in which a defenseless man was shot in
the back and killed by a policeman on a subway platform in San
Francisco. "There's no accountability now, because the government got
away with 9-11 and so any kind of violence is justified in terms of
protecting us from terrorists or people who might have been a
terrorist," Roberts said. When radio host Alex Jones remarked that
Roberts was being more explicit about his view of 9-11 than in previous
interviews, Roberts said: "Well, I've never tried to hide anything. I
just try to say what the evidence supports. I never believed 9-11,
because I had engineering training at Georgia Tech and I could tell
when a building was being blown up by explosives."
Roberts,
68, served as assistant treasury secretary during the Presidency of
Ronald Reagan . In more recent years, he has been an outspoken critic
of the policies of the Administration of George W. Bush, and of the
American invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan in
particular. Roberts is author of a number of books, and is a nationally
syndicated columnist.