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Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks
Zogby ^ | 8/30/2004 | Zogby

Posted on 08/30/2004 6:18:03 PM PDT by l33t

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@earthlink.net

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.



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To: Radix

Zogby is Arab-American. His brother leads a major left-leaning Arab-American organization. Since 9/11, I take everything John Zogby has to say with a large dose of salt.


21 posted on 08/30/2004 6:33:37 PM PDT by Binghamton_native
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To: l33t

Zogby is a troublemaking Pan-Arabist. I don'tbuy his poll.


22 posted on 08/30/2004 6:35:13 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: l33t

Most New Yorkers also believe the universe is centered in Manhattan. In reality, if the planet needs an enema, New York is where they would put in the tube.


23 posted on 08/30/2004 6:35:26 PM PDT by Blue Screen of Death (/i)
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To: l33t

There should be a probe to discover that bin Laden financed 9/11 with the money Clinton gave him to provide ground troops for the genocide war on the Christian Serbs.


24 posted on 08/30/2004 6:35:36 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (Liberals lie at the premise, accept their premise and you can only lose the argument.)
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To: l33t

total bs.


25 posted on 08/30/2004 6:41:23 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: Jim_Curtis

This is a push poll and is a good sign. The technique is tried and true, go to one of the most liberal cities in the country and ask if they believe a Michael Moore/Howard Dean conspiracy theory. Wow!!!! Shocker, they do!!! I am aghast. (sarcasm. . .off)


26 posted on 08/30/2004 6:45:38 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Arpege92; cyborg; reformedliberal
Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks and “Consciously Failed” To Act

I'm sure there will be some who will insist this is a vicious, vast, flyover country lie...

27 posted on 08/30/2004 6:47:16 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: l33t
This irritates me to no end. The root of this story is the culmination of theories that were propagated during the first few weeks after 9/11. It's a bona fide testament to the power and perverseness of persuasion- not to mention the unfathomable gullibility of the unenlightened masses. Can you imagine? I mean REALLY? Can you imagine our heads of government actually sitting still while knowing this tragedy was about to unfold? And doing nothing? There is no way in this world! What an incredibly stupid, tragic and irresponsible issue to poll. Of course the intent was to suggest the possibility. How absolutely over the line and Un-American!
28 posted on 08/30/2004 6:57:23 PM PDT by tiledood
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To: Radix

"Zogby is likely to lose a lot of credibility with BS such as this."

THANK YOU! What you said!


29 posted on 08/30/2004 6:59:06 PM PDT by jocon307 (That's allowed, as long as we all vote for W.)
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To: l33t

I just took a poll. One out of two people say one out of every two people in NY is an idiot.


30 posted on 08/30/2004 7:02:18 PM PDT by Mr. Keys (Sensitive war? French recipe for disaster)
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To: tiledood
The groups that sponsored this "poll" are highly suspect. 911truth.org and 911citizenswatch.org are comprised of conspiracy theorists who think the government is lying about 9/11. Walden3.org is some screwy utopian group. And walden3.org's owner is selling Chickenhawk t-shirts on his website against President Bush. What answer did you think a poll commissioned by these entities would get?

This was a Zogby push poll with a huge helping of special sauce.
31 posted on 08/30/2004 7:06:58 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: FlipWilson
I'm saying bring the probes. Good ol' Norm Coleman R-Minnesota who has Joe McCarthy's old job hasn't probed a thing. We have Rats shoving classified documents in their panties, rat traitors running rampant everywhere and he is probing online prescription drug buying or something.
32 posted on 08/30/2004 7:09:09 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (Liberals lie at the premise, accept their premise and you can only lose the argument.)
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To: MizSterious

Nope. Just another factless questionable zombie poll.


33 posted on 08/30/2004 7:10:31 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Blue Screen of Death

"if the planet needs an enema, New York is where they would put in the tube."

Well said!

This poll is an example of pure ignorance and emotional overload - where are all the social workers when we really need them. ":^)


34 posted on 08/30/2004 7:12:12 PM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: l33t

99% of New Yorkers are utter morons, take it from me.


35 posted on 08/30/2004 7:12:25 PM PDT by montag813
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To: l33t
Oh yes. Zogby, the liberals favorite pollster.
36 posted on 08/30/2004 7:13:18 PM PDT by ladyinred (What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about?)
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To: l33t
I see that 49.3% need their Thorazine increased Or have the Nurse move them closer to the light by the Window.
37 posted on 08/30/2004 7:18:56 PM PDT by Fast1
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To: l33t
66% Call For New Probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress or New York’s Attorney General

New York's Attorney General can ES&D.

38 posted on 08/30/2004 7:23:31 PM PDT by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket???)
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To: cyborg

It's all that "special sauce"...


39 posted on 08/30/2004 7:51:11 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: MizSterious

maybe! :-)


40 posted on 08/30/2004 7:53:40 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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