Dr James Henry Fetzer (retired professor at the University of Minnesota who has published over 100 scholarly articles and 20 books on the philosophy of science and has extensively researched the 9/11 attacks) (2015): “The orders had to be not to shoot the plane down, because shooting down the plane would have been the obvious thing to do. You would have lost the plane and the passengers, but not the property and personnel at the target, which was in this case the Pentagon…What is remarkable about this is that the order to not shoot down was for a plane that flew toward the [Pentagon] building, but then passed over the building at the same time explosives were set off in front of the Pentagon. That was part of an elaborate charade to mislead the American people into the false belief that 19 ‘Islamic terrorists' — under the control of a guy in a cave off in Afghanistan — had been responsible. It was very cleverly orchestrated…Diligent students, including members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which I founded in December of 2005, have continued to dig, and dig, and dig. And it’s very clear that the key players in this event included, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, General Richard Myers, Rudy Giuliani, Larry Silverstein, and other members of the Zionist community, especially in New York" (“Cheney was in charge of 9/11 false flag operation: American scholar”, Press TV, 25 July 2015: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/25/421797/Cheney-911-false-flag- ).
James Henry Fetzer (American philosopher and emeritus professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Duluth) on false flag 9-11 atrocity (2018): “The unique historical opportunity presented by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990 ….require[d] a new Pearl Harbor, a traumatic catalytic event, which would instil fear into the public that they were under attack by a foreign power. The contrived events of 9/11 were carried out by the CIA, the neocons, the Department of Defense and Mossad (for) the project of the New American Century… A think tank consisting mainly of dual American Israeli citizens advocated the view that the United States should move aggressively into the Middle East and exert military and diplomatic pressure outward from that geopolitically sensitive region in order to create a new American empire worldwide that would endure for the next 100 years hence, the new American century” (James Henry Fetzer interviewed by Press TV, “9/11 was the new Pearl Harbor to instil fear into Americans: philosopher”, Press TV, 11 September 2018: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/11/573860/US-911-Pearl-Harbor-Fetzer-Interview ).