Sunday, November 07, 2004
 New York Post November 7, 2004:An eccentric California millionaire who believes the government conspired to blow up the Twin Towers is funding a nearly $2 million ad blitz to convince New Yorkers of his crazy conspiracy theory.
Since September, advertisements for his nonprofit "Re-Open 9/11" have been shown on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and other stations and in the Village Voice, the New Yorker, and The New York Times, calling for the government to launch a new probe into the attacks.
The man behind the ads, Jimmy Walter, 57, inherited his $11 million fortune from his father, James Walter Sr., the late founder of Walter Industries, a Fortune 500 homebuilding company based in Florida.
The younger Walter's first foray into high-profile advertising was in February 2003, when he placed a full-page, $125,000 ad in The New York Times calling Colin Powell a liar after his U.N. testimony regarding Iraq's weapons programs.
"It felt good," he said of running the ad. "I felt like, hey, I've done something here. No matter what happens I've made history, because future historians are going to see this in the paper."
Walter believes the attacks were financially motivated, putting military spending into the Pentagon and Halliburton and insurance money into WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein's pockets.
"I won't go so far as to say Silverstein absolutely did this, but I do think he should be investigated," said Walter.
"It is unfortunate that this group is peddling grossly inaccurate conspiracy theories," said Silverstein spokesman Howard J. Rubenstein. "FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] conducted a detailed study and concluded that the collapse was caused by fires ignited by falling debris."
Walter says planes did fly into the towers, but they were most likely drones.
He bases his theories on a self-published book, "Painful Questions," which references photos and videos to make its claims of planted explosives and nonexistent planes.
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