Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks.

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Released: August 30, 2004

 

Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had

Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks and

“Consciously Failed” To Act; 66% Call For New Probe of

Unanswered Questions by Congress or New York’s

Attorney General, New Zogby International Poll Reveals

 

On the eve of a Republican National Convention

invoking 9/11 symbols, sound bytes and imagery, half

(49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York

citizens overall say that some of our leaders " knew in

advance that attacks were planned on or around

September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed

to act, " according to the poll conducted by Zogby

International. The poll of New York residents was

conducted from Tuesday August 24 through Thursday

August 26, 2004. Overall results have a margin of

sampling error of +/-3.5.

 

The poll is the first of its kind conducted in America

that surveys attitudes regarding US government

complicity in the 9/11 tragedy. Despite the acute

legal and political implications of this accusation,

nearly 30% of registered Republicans and over 38% of

those who described themselves as " very conservative "

supported the claim.

 

The charge found very high support among adults under

30 (62.8%), African-Americans (62.5%), Hispanics

(60.1%), Asians (59.4%), and " Born Again " Evangelical

Christians (47.9%).

 

Less than two in five (36%) believe that the 9/11

Commission had " answered all the important questions

about what actually happened on September 11th, " and

two in three (66%) New Yorkers (and 56.2% overall)

called for another full investigation of the " still

unanswered questions " by Congress or Elliot Spitzer,

New York's Attorney General. Self-identified " very

liberal " New Yorkers supported a new inquiry by a

margin of three to one, but so did half (53%) of " very

conservative " citizens across the state. The call for

a deeper probe was especially strong from Hispanics

(75.6%), African-Americans (75.3%) citizens with

income from $15-25K (74.3%), women (62%) and

Evangelicals (59.9%).

 

W. David Kubiak, executive director of 911truth.org,

the group that commissioned the poll, expressed

genuine surprise that New Yorkers' belief in the

administration's complicity is as high or higher than

that seen overseas. " We're familiar with high levels

of 9/11 skepticism abroad where there has been open

debate of the evidence for US government complicity.

On May 26th the Toronto Star reported a national poll

showing that 63% of Canadians are also convinced US

leaders had 'prior knowledge' of the attacks yet

declined to act. There was no US coverage of this

startling poll or the facts supporting the Canadians'

conclusions, and there has been virtually no debate on

the victim families' scores of still unanswered

questions. I think these numbers show that most New

Yorkers are now fed up with the silence, and that

politicians trying to exploit 9/11 do so at their

peril. The 9/11 case is not closed and New York's

questions are not going away. "

 

Nicholas Levis of NY911truth.org, an advisor on the

poll, agrees, " The 9/11 Commission gave us a plenty of

'recommendations', but far more plentiful were the

discrepancies, gaps and omissions in their supposedly

'final' report. How can proposals based on such

deficient findings ever make us safe? We think these

poll numbers are basically saying, 'Wait just a

minute. What about the scores of still outstanding

questions? What about the unexplained collapses of WTC

7, our air defenses, official accountability, the

chain of command on 9/11, the anthrax, insider trading

& FBI field probes? There's so much more to this story

that we need to know about.' When such a huge

majority of New Yorkers want a new investigation, it

will be interesting to see how quickly Attorney

General Spitzer and our legislators respond. "

 

SCOPE: The poll covered five areas of related

interest: 1) Iraq - do New Yorkers think that our

leaders " deliberately misled " us before the war (51.2%

do); 2) the 9/11 Commission - did it answer all the

" important questions " (only 36% said yes); 3) the

inexplicable and largely unreported collapse of the

third WTC skyscraper on 9/11 - what was its number

(28% of NYC area residents knew); 4) the question on

complicity; and 5) how many wanted a new 9/11 probe.

All inquiries about questions, responses and

demographics should be directed to Zogby

International.

 

SPONSOR: 911truth.org is a coalition of researchers,

journalists and victim family members working to

expose and resolve the hundreds of critical questions

still swirling around 9/11, especially the nearly 400

questions that the Family Steering Committee filed

with the 9/11Commission which they fought to create.

Initially welcomed by the commissioners as a " road

map " for their inquiry, these queries cut to the heart

of 9/11 crimes and accountability. Specifically, they

raised the central issues of motive, means and cui

bono (who profited?). But the Commission ignored the

majority of these questions, opting only to explore

system failures, miscommunications and incompetence.

The victim families' most incisive issues remain

unaddressed to this day. The Zogby International poll

was also cosponsored by Walden Three (walden3.org) and

9/11 Citizens Watch (911citizenswatch.org), a watchdog

group which has monitored the Commission since its

inception and will release its findings, " The 9/11

Omission Report, " in several weeks.

 

On September 9th and 11th, 911Truth.org will cosponsor

two large successive inquiries in New York, a

preliminary 9/11 Citizens Commission hearing and

" Confronting the Evidence: 9/11 and the Search for

Truth, " a research-focused evidentiary forum. These

inquiries will examine many of the 9/11

Commission-shunned questions and discuss preparation

of a probable cause complaint demanding a grand jury

and criminal investigation from the New York Attorney

General. Possible charges range from criminal

negligence and gross dereliction of duty to

foreknowledge, complicity and subsequent obstruction

of justice. For details and developments, see

www.911truth.org. For press info, contact Kyle Hence

212-243-7787 kylehence

 

Zogby International conducted interviews of 808 adults

chosen at random in New York State. All calls were

made from Zogby International headquarters in Utica,

N.Y., from 8/24/04 through 8/26/04. The margin of

error is +/- 3.5 percentage points. Slight weights

were added to region, party, age, race, religion, and

gender to more accurately reflect the population.

Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.