In the meantime, please disseminate as much as you can. We need people
sending this to their media and demanding coverage! Thanks for the help.
See you soon-
Janice
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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@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.

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20040830120349841

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Monday, Aug. 30, 2004

Half of New Yorkers Believe U.S. 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(Utica, NY) -

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.

DOWNLOAD COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF RESULTS
http://www.911truth.org/dossier/zogby911.pdf

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
http://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 NY 9/11 http://ny911truth.org/ Truth, 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." (Contact: nicholas@911truth.org
http://us.f813.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nicholas@911truth.org ,
Tel. 917.295.4929)

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 9/11
Commission 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
<http://walden3.org/ > ) and 9/11 Citizens Watch (911citizenswatch.org
<http://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. http://911truth.org/ For press
info, contact Kyle Hence 212-243-7787 kylehence@earthlink.net
http://us.f813.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=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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