Posted on 05/04/2007 7:01:12 PM PDT by Thunder90
Former University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett said Thursday he will travel to Morocco in an attempt to find and interview a man accused of hijacking an airplane and flying it into the World Trade Center.
Barrett, widely known and criticized for his 9/11 conspiracy theory, announced at the state Capitol that he will head to Casablanca this Sunday and try to locate Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed al-Shehri.
The 9/11 Commission has said al-Shehri stabbed two unarmed flight attendants and crashed a plane into the World Trace Center five and a half years ago. According to Barrett, al-Shehri is alive and working in Morocco as a pilot.
“Since our government won’t do its job and investigate what really happened on 9/11, I, as a U.S. citizen, will fly to Morocco and try to find out what’s going on,” said Barrett, who taught an introductory-level Islam course at UW in fall 2006.
According to a 2001 BBC report, a week after 9/11, al-Shehri visited the U.S. embassy in Morocco to claim his innocence and admitted the photos and the biography of the suicide hijacker were indeed his.
“Indications are that he was hired by the CIA to play a role and be a patsy for 9/11,” Barrett said.
He intends to bring al-Shehri back to the U.S. or at least interview him and try to find out his true involvement with 9/11.
Despite criticism, Barrett said he is still hopeful he will prove his conspiracy theory and al-Shehri will come to the U.S. to testify in his favor.
Barrett is publicly associated with Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a private organization that believes the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were an inside U.S. military job.
“I hope that in 10 years I’ll be offered a chair in conspiracy theory studies at the University of Wisconsin,” Barrett said. “But for now I’m just an unemployed Ph.D.”
Barrett said he has applied for a position as a lecturer in UW’s English department teaching a 300-level course about The Canterbury Tales. He said he has all the qualifications necessary for the job and is hopeful UW will rehire him for fall 2007.
“The class has nothing to do with Islam and there is no way I would be able to mention any theories,” Barrett added.
However, university officials said they have not received Barrett’s application.
English department chair Michael Bernard-Donals denied any knowledge regarding the matter, adding he would be the person to know if Barrett had indeed applied.
UW Assistant Director of State Relations Don Nelson confirmed Bernard-Donals’ account and added UW “currently has no intention to hire Kevin Barrett.”
During the Thursday morning press conference, Barrett challenged Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, to a debate regarding 9/11, but the representative was out of the office for the day.
“Barrett’s action today proves again why he should not be employed by any university in this state,” said Mike Mikalsen, a spokesperson for Nass. “He is only looking for media coverage.”
The lecturer also presented Nass with two 9/11 conspiracy books and said he hopes the official accepts his offer to debate or “apologizes and admits he was wrong about 9/11.”
“I was hoping [Nass] would show up, but once again he refused to meet me face-to-face,” Barrett said.
PS. Barrett, DON'T COME BACK!!! Stay in Morocco, or better yet, go to Iran, Barrett.
Yes, Barrett will be coming back next year. And he is teaching the same course. The University is even thinking about giving Barrett tenuire.
Super secret agent what again?
Thank goodness he is former and not current..
Gee, I wonder why?!?!
Did the terrorist’s ashes fly on a breeze to Morocco? What a complete moron Barrett is.
Barrett is coming back next semester to teach again...
I was just watching the Mark Levin documentary Protocols of Zion. The movie was made because people blamed the Jews for 9/11. I can’t believe guys like this. One of my favourite parts of the movie was when this scumbag with a bad suit and ponytail was trying to tell everyone what “really happened” on 9/11 at a memorial ceremony. He ended up with a crowd of enraged New Yorkers baying for his blood and chasing him down the street. I practically cheered.
So let me get this straight, these people believe the government accused people who were alive and well as being the highjackers on 9/11? Are these troothers stupid?
oh..that stinks then..
I suppose he’s going to also investigate why steel melted for the first time in history. Stand by for the book to be on the NYT best-seller list any day now.
This guy will be lucky not to be starring in an internet video sans head.
That the problem a true conspiracy would have no loose end as it easy to make dead who you say is dead... but becaused 911 in not a conspiracy then there is alway a possibility that some one on one of the fight was miss ID as they have no bodys.. there just going from ID's, passage manifest an few grainy security photos from the gate
This is actually a good thing. What if Kevin Barrett goes to Morracco and doesn’t find him? He can’t make up info can he? A true believer wouldn’t then again the supporters for the Soviet Union(like Walter Duranty) love making stuff up. Maybe he’ll also find out the reasons why we liberated Iraq and Afghanistan when he goes there.
My question to him also is: Does he believe that we landed on the moon? Where is Elvis? and does he have the same amount of scrutiny for the mysterious death of Vince Foster and Waco?
I hope in 10 years cancer will have eaten him into a painful death.
What a moron!
The hijacker was named MARWAN al-Shehri, not Waleed.
"Since our government won’t do its job and investigate what really happened on 9/11, I, as a U.S. citizen, will fly to Morocco and try to find out what’s going on," said Barrett, who taught an introductory-level Islam course at UW in fall 2006.Hangin's too good...
I missed something. Don’t call me stupid, but how can a pilot who crashed an airliner into the World Trade Center be alive in Morocco?
I hope the muslims take him and cut off his fool head...no loss to society.
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