Webster Tarpley is the author of 9-11 Synthetic Terror. He has longtime connections to Lyndon LaRouche. He was featured on a panel broadcast on C-Span of the LA 9-11 Denial Convention in July of 2006. Tarpley is the source for the absurd story that Prescott Bush got rich financing the Nazis rise to power.
Richard Grove is a somewhat minor character in the 9-11 Denial Movement. Richard is something of a "kitchen sink" conspiracy theorist, who ties everything into everything else in the history of the world. James covered him in a post over at SLC. Be sure to watch the linked video to get a feel for Grove's extraordinary brand of nuttiness. He's as crazy as they come. It was 666 years to the day after the Knights Templar were disbanded that JFK was assassinated? Nope, but it's one of those "woo!" factoids that impress the young and simple-minded.
Rick Rajter is a young CTer. He wrote a long piece that Morgan Reynolds includes on his site claiming that only controlled demolition fit all the facts on the WTC. He's also a Holocaust denier.
Kevin Barrett is a professor of Islamic studies, currently teaching (but not tenured) at the University of Wisconsin. Barrett became controversial in July of 2005 when it was announced that his Introduction to Islam course would include 9-11 revisionism. He is a full member of Scholars for 9-11 Truth. He has also formed a group called MUJCA, for Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9-11 Truth.
Notes: Barrett is a (white) Muslim.
What he believes: 9-11 a false-flag terrorist attack by agents of the United States. Al Qaeda is Al-Cia-Duh. The Neocons are behind it.
Other conspiracies. Barrett apparently is an Oswald-denier. Goes on about the massacre of Fallujah, claims patients and doctors killed by US soldiers as well as old men praying in Mosques. Also claims that the Iran-Iraq War was started by a false-flag operation by the Israelis and the US.
Dr Robert Bowman is a full member of Scholars for 9-11 Truth. His bio there reads as follows:
Former Director of the U.S. "Star Wars" Space Defense Program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, and a former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions.
Why did they destroy most of the forensic evidence showing that three buildings at the World Trade Center were brought down by thermite demolition charges?
He believes in some of the nuttiest stuff that the 9-11 conspiracy movement has:
Why does the “Osama bin Laden” in the “confession” videotape have a nose about an inch shorter that the real Osama bin Laden? Why have half a dozen of the 19 “hijackers” turned up in other countries … alive and well? Were there really any hijackers at all, and if there were, were they patsies? Who made millions on short sales of United and American Airlines? Where is the tens of billions of dollars worth of missing gold that was stored in the World Trade Center?
Although of course phrasing those as questions allows him to slough off these apparent beliefs as "just asking questions".
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. is President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, Executive Vice President of Millennium III Corporation, and Presiding Archbishop of the United Catholic Church. He flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam and directed all the “Star Wars” programs under Presidents Ford and Carter.
Here's the website for Millenium III corporation, which certainly looks impressive until you try to click on one of their links; every one gives a 404 error. The United Catholic Church? Here's their website.
Update - October 11th, 2006:
General beliefs: *MIHOP – Believes 9/11 to be an “inside job” 1 *Believes the “official story” is the biggest Conspiracy Theory 1
OBL/Hijackers: *Believes the Hijackers and OBL were “Patsies”. 1,2 *Believes the Hijackers were not capable of the manuevers to fly planes into buildings 1 *Believes many of the 19 hijackers were alive and well after 9/11. 2 *Believes the OBL confession tape is fake. 2
FAA/NORAD/Standdown: *Believes Fighter Jets got to Payne Stuarts plane in 16 minutes. 1 *Believes 67 plane “intercepts” occurred in the year preceding 2001. 1 *Believes that Fighter Jets will “automatically” scramble, without orders, if a jet airliner transponder goes down, or if it goes off course. 1 *Believes there was a “stand down” order given by someone in the government. 1 *Believes there were war games, and that the reason for the war games was to confuse ATC/FAA/NORAD 1 *Believes USG is withholding or has destroyed audio tapes of FAA/NORAD conversations.2
Motive/PNAC/NWO issues: *Believes PNAC planned 9/11 to further their goals to increase defense spending, via the creation of a “New Pearl Harbour”. 1 *Says the PNAC paper states that “the US must occupy Iraq PERMANENTLY” in order to have a “staging base” to attack Iran, Syria, etc…1 *Believes Dick Cheney is the mastermind behind 9/11 1 *Thinks that only the top people at the white house knew of the plan, and that all of the military chain of command were innocent tools. 1 *Believes that the Black Ops and Corporations that “really” run the govt, are the ones behind 9/11. 1 *Says that the republicans/USG would love to have another 9/11, to pull up their support. 1
Pentagon Crash: *Believes USG is withholding video tapes of the pentagon. 2
WTC Attacks: *Believes the USG had evidence destroyed from the WTC sites. 2 *Believes the WTCs were brought down by the USG using Thermite Charges. 2 *Believes there was “tens of billions of dollars worth” of gold in the WTC on 9/11. 2
