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Reminder Assistant Editor SPRINGFIELD Loose Change 911 (2nd Edition) is a documentary that vehemently challenges the United States government's account of the events that took place on September 11, 2001. The three young filmmakers behind Loose Change have been traveling the country spreading the word about the documentary they believe exposes the United States governments involvement with the tragedies of Sept. 11. Dylan Avery, Jason Bermas and Korey Rowe, came to Muhammad Mosque No. 13 in Springfield, on May 3. The evidence presented in the documentary is derived from television news footage, public records and witnesses. Loose Change creator Dylan Avery said he came across a lot of his findings by accident. In fact, initially, Loose Change was a fictional script he was working on about him and his friends discovering Sept. 11 was not "a terrorist attack, but rather, an attack by their own government," Avery said. But Avery said as he began researching the events of that day, he started coming across information that, "I believed had some merit. I didn't want to believe this was true." His friend Korey Rowe, an Army Veteran who served six months in Kandahar, Afghanistan and a year in Iraq, later signed on to the project. Jason Bermas had independently been researching Sept. 11 for three and a half years. A mutual friend introduced him to Avery and Rowe. Minister Yusef Muhammad, of Springfield's Muhammad Mosque No. 13, hosted the trio and also opened the Mosque's doors to the public to view the documentary and meet its producers. During the screening of the documentary several gasps and mumblings could be heard from the audience. Loose Change is 80 minutes of shocking video complete with interviews, commentary, and public documents that pose several questions: Did the U.S. government commit crimes on Sept. 11 for political purposes? Why do the eye-witness accounts conflict with government officials accounts? Why did the American media fail to investigate or explore inconsistencies? Why was there no substantial plane wreckage at the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA where United Flight 93 supposedly crashed? Why did several eye-witnesses at the Twin Towers, including Fire Fighters say detonators went off inside both Towers prior to their fall? Why were surveillance cameras at businesses like gas stations and hotels surrounding the Pentagon taken by government officials less than 10 minutes after the Pentagon was hit? If alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour allegedly took over Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon, then why did Chief Flight Instructor Marcel Bernard deem Hanjour an unfit pilot and decline to rent him a plane? During an interview in Loose Change, Bernard, Chief Flight Instructor at Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland, claimed that Hanjour came to the airport in August 2001 to rent an airplane. In order to rent a plane from Freeway the renter has to participate in a flight test. Bernard said Hanjour had trouble controlling and landing a Cessna 172. He said he declined to rent Hanjour a plane based on his "below average" abilities. Loose Change poses the question,:if Hanjour can not handle a Cessna 172, how can he handle a Boeing 757? Why did news reports list Flight 93 as one of two planes that landed at Cleveland Hopkins Airport in Ohio, due to a bomb threat, the morning of Sept. 11? Why, upon closer examination of the video of Osama Bin Laden allegedly claiming responsibility for the attacks, does the man on the tape not even appear to be Osama Bin Laden? These are just some of the many questions a viewer might have after watching Loose Change, though many of them are answered during the video. The producers say their ultimate goal is to have everyone make copies of the disk and pass it on to educate others. "We're in real danger right now," Bermas said. He added that this country needs to change and that it's not hard to start somewhere, thus the title Loose Change. While the trio told the audience that they have not been directly threatened by anyone because of their documentary, they said they have encountered protestors at events. Most recently the producers attended the premiere of United 93 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Demonstrators were at the event with fliers protesting the content of Loose Change. Last month Loose Change was also the subject of a segment of CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Bermas said that he could tell by Blitzer's voice "he wasn't too happy with the subject matter." Several websites also refute claims in Loose Change. Some like screwloosechange.blogspot.com, claim quotes in Loose Change were not complete or were taken out of context. "By leaving off the last part of the quote they completely change its meaning. Incompetence, or deception? You tell me," wrote the author called James B. The official website of Loose Change asks the viewer to "take nothing we say at face value. We highly encourage you to research this information yourselves and come to your own conclusions." The producers also hope that many across the country will join them in a peaceful demonstration on September 11, 2006 at the White House, where they plan to march and demand a full investigation into the attacks on Sept. 11. The Muhammad Mosque No. 13 will have copies of Loose Change 911 available. Muhammad Mosque No. 13 is located at 727 State Street in Springfield. Loose Change 911 (2nd edition) can also be viewed for free. Log on to www.reminderpublications.com to find out how. | ||||||
