Ignoring the Evidence of Super-Thermite from the World Trade Center

An Open Letter to The New York Times
from Christopher Bollyn
April 21, 2009

Ignoring the Evidence of Super-Thermite from the World Trade Center

Re: "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe," by Steven E. Jones, Niels H Harrit, et al, The Open Chemical Physics Journal, Vol. 2, February 13, 2009

Dear Mr. Hoyt and Editors of The New York Times and International Herald Tribune:

How can the New York Times completely ignore the scientific evidence of nano-thermite, or super-thermite, found in the dust of the demolished and pulverized rubble of the World Trade Center? Do you consider this crucial scientific discovery irrelevant to the understanding of what happened on 9-11?

A recent study written by 9 scientists, including Dr. Steven E. Jones, has proven that chips of a highly-explosive thermitic material, "characterized as nano-thermite or super-thermite," were found in five different samples of dust from the collapsed towers of the World Trade Center. This paper, which passed a peer review and was published in The Open Chemical Physics Journal, is an historic breakthrough in the scientific investigation of the explosive collapses of the twin towers, yet not a single word about it has been published in the New York Times.

The silence of the New York Times about the evidence of super-thermite in the destruction of the twin towers is a perfect illustration of why newspapers are going out of business in the United States: a controlled press is simply not relevant. The American people want truthful information about the vital issues of the day, like 9-11. The New York Times, on the other hand, is a good example of the controlled press: the Times "failed the American public" in your reporting during the lead-up to the war in Iraq, according to your own bureau chief in Baghdad, John Burns. Previously, the Times spread blatantly false reports about that country's alleged weapons of mass destruction in order to create public support for an illegal war of aggression. Now, when we have solid scientific evidence that a highly-advanced nano-composite thermitic explosive known as super-thermite has been found in the dust of the World Trade Center, you are silent.

The discovery of active thermitic material in the dust of the World Trade Center is crucial to understanding what really happened on 9-11. This scientific discovery reveals that sophisticated demolition explosives had been placed in the twin towers long before the two planes struck them on 9-11. Although we have earlier seen evidence that the towers were demolished with explosives, this is the first time we have solid evidence of the explosives involved in the demolition of the three collapsed towers.

Clearly, the New York Times is unwilling to publish the most pertinent information about vital matters concerning the American people, such as the search for the truth about what really happened on 9-11. This makes the New York Times irrelevant. The Times is in the same boat as the controlled press of the former Soviet Union and many of the leading newspapers of the United States. The controlled press is a boat that is sinking and that deserves to sink.

Christopher Bollyn
www.bollyn.com