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 DEBATE INVITATION LETTER
Press Release 5/21/06



May 19, 2006




Mr. James Glanz and Mr. Eric Lipton
c/o The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY, 10036



Dear Mr. Glanz and Mr. Lipton:

We invite you to engage in a formal, public debate with us on two of the most crucial, unanswered questions about the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

The questions are:
  1. What caused the the collapse of the World Trader Center's Twin Towers and Building 7?
  2. For what reasons were the Twin Towers attacked?

Your co-authorship of the 2003 book City in the Sky / The Rise and Fall of The World Trade Center, combined with your other writing on the subject of the 9/11/01 attacks for The New York Times, the newspaper widely accepted as the United States' most authoritative, lead us to you.

We think that mass-media's failure to properly investigate the crimes of 9/11/01 is the largest cause of this this astonishing result from a November 11, 2004 poll by CNN: 89% of more than 10,000 respondents believed then that 'there is a U.S government cover-up surrounding 9/11'.

We propose a debate on each of the two propositions that our side would put forth. Our propositions are:
  1. That the Twin Towers and Building 7 were destroyed through controlled demolition and not through any combination of damage from an airliner's impact and subsequent fires inside the buildings.
  2. That all three Buildings (WTC 1, 2, and 7) were worth far more to the interests that controlled them if they were demolished than if they remained standing on September 11, 2001.


We will assume the burden of proof for each position, and will take the affirmative side in each debate. We propose the following format for each debate:

15-minute constructive speech by us
15-minute constructive speech by you
10-minute rebuttal by us
10-minute rebuttal by you
5-minute summation by us
5-minute summation by you

As you see, the total time of debate on each position would be 60 minutes. We propose that the debates be separated by a 15-minute intermission.

The total time of the entire event (both debates plus intermission) would thus be two hours and 15 minutes. The debate would occur in a venue on which we all agree in New York City and would be open to the public.

We hope that you will seriously consider and ultimately accept our invitation. Copies of our book Waking Up from Our Nightmare / The 9/11/01 Crimes in New York City and our video 9/11 Guilt / The Proof Is in Your Hands are enclosed.

A frank and thorough discussion of what actually happened at the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 and why such destruction and mass murder took place could go a long way toward fulfilling the duties of all four of us as investigators of the most consequential event of the 21st century.

It would also help to bring a foundation of integrity to the present-day United States.

Sincerely,

James Hoffman


Don Paul