(over 20 cities have group contacts listed. C'mon Baltimore!)

Dear Peace & Justice Leader(s),

I am Ed Asner. As you may know, I've dedicated much of my life to
promoting peace & justice issues in America.

I would like to suggest to you emphatically that the 9-11 truth
movement is the most pressing issue of the peace & justice movement
today. Here is why. 9-11 has been used to justify "endless war" and a
continual rollback in civil liberties that seems to have no end in sight.
Yet, 9-11 remains the least examined tragedy in modern American history.

Americans would have never agreed to the last two wars and the Patriot
Act's disturbing policy . . . had it not been for 9-11.

There are many disturbing issues around 9-11 that have yet to be
examined in any meaningful way by our media, Congress, and
even by the 9-11 Commission. These include accountability for
the massive breakdown of air defense and plane intercept procedures
as described in FAA and DOD regulations, which were violated on
9-11. This breakdown and astounding unpreparedness by U.S.
domestic defense agencies is puzzling to say the least, given the
detailed reports our government had of the coming attacks, that
were bizarrely suppressed by key officials.

For example, FBI Agent Coleen Rowley suggested that her offices'
attempts to alert higher ups in the FBI of the pre 9-11 activities of
Zacharias Moussaoui "seemed to have been consistently, almost
DELIBERATELY thwart[ed] . . "
While George Tenet, Director of the CIA, had recieved a memo in August
of 2001 (one month before the attacks of 9-11) on this report entitled,
"Islamic Extermists Learn to Fly." Yet, Tenet took no action on this memo.
The FBI agents responsible for the now famous "Phoenix Memo" regarding
Osama Bin Laden sending students to the U.S. to attend civil aviation schools,
also struggled to get their higher ups to act on this information.

To date, no one has been held accountable for the massive defense
failures on 9-11, nor for the bizarre suppression of critical warnings
prior to 9-11. Furthermore, we still have no explanation for why the
head of Pakistani intelligence, who was meeting with top Bush
Administration officials in Washington on 9-11-2001, had wired
lead hijacker Mohammed Atta $100,000.00 weeks before
9-11. We still do not know who made the insider stock trades in weeks
and days leading up to 9-11, by betting "against" United and American
Airlines stocks (the aircraft used as missiles on 9-11).

What we DO KNOW is that $5 million of those insider stock trade
"winnings" apparently by someone who had foreknowledge of the
coming attacks, were made the day before 9-11 at AB Brown Trust.
AB Brown Trust was headed until his induction into the CIA by
Buzzy Krongard, who is now the Executive Director of the
CIA. We also know that the current head of AB Brown Trust quietly
resigned his position on 9-11, with no media scrutiny nor apparently
government scrutiny. Lastly, and perhaps most bizarre is the fact that
$2.5 million of those stock "winnings" against these airlines made at
AB Brown Trust . . . remain unclaimed.

We deserve to know why no one has been held accountable, and who made
those insider stock trades. We also deserve to know why the Bush
Administration allowed members of the Bin Laden family to quietly leave
the U.S. after 9-11, with virtually no questioning by the FBI, and at a time
when other Americans were not allowed to fly.

There are many other profound, and bizarrely "unasked" questions around
9-11. I urge all to read "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About
the Bush Administration and 9/11" by David Ray Griffin, and introduced
by Howard Zinn, and to view "The Great Deception" documentary by
acclaimed Canadian television journalist Barry Zwicker. Peace & justice
leaders and activists will find these works a great resource for getting current
on the 9-11 truth issue, and can be great organizing tools to educate others.

I fear that if the underlying issues of 9-11 truth are not demanded,
that Iraq may be but a flame on an ocean of gasoline that may be used
to ignite war after war after war. We cannot, as a peace & justice movement
only address the flames. We must look at the fuel being used to justify the
flames of war and repression at home and abroad. We must look deeply at
the events leading up to, on and since 9-11. We must demand full 9-11 truth.

I encourage all local and national peace & justice activists and organizations
to join Philadelphia Peace Action and other peace & justice organizations
nationwide who are now beginning to work with and becoming involved
with the National 911Visibility.org Project at www.911Visibility.org and to list
your local efforts contact information there, so 9-11 truth activists across
the nation can get involved with you to demand full 9-11 truth.

National 911Visibility.org has worked with 9-11 family members, and
become a media source conducting interviews and linking media with 9-11
family members, including BBC World Wide Radio Network, The O'Reilly
Factor, and others. By listing your local contact information for your local
9-11 truth activities at www.911visibility.org media visiting the site can
find your contact information as well as local activists who want to join your efforts.

Sincerely,

Ed Asner
Actor & Peace Activist

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Here are three April Quicktime videos of a leading 911Visibility.org,
KC area activist recently addressing the 9- 11 truth issue (four minutes each) :

Bill Douglas Humorously speaks about Democracy and Patriotism
and demanding 9-11 truth:
kcindymedia.org/media/protests/display/447/index.php

Bill Douglas: Why peace activists should tackle 9-11 NOW?
A candid appeal to activists.
kcindymedia.org/media/protests/display/451/index.php

Bill Douglas talks about the significance of the 9-11 issue:
kcindymedia.org/media/protests/display/443/index.php