Friday, February 11, 2005
 Philadelphia Inquirer Feb. 11, 2005:Francisco Gil-White, an assistant professor in Penn's psychology department, has called the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks "an inside job." He has written articles alleging that NATO framed Slobodan Milosevic...
And he says he is about to lose his job for holding - and broadcasting - those views.
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Last year Gil-White was given a one-year extension on his contract instead of the standard three years... Gil-White is now under a second review to determine whether his contract should be extended again.
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Gil-White has also alleged that Penn political science professor Ian Lustick, who worked in the State Department 25 years ago, is an agent of U.S. intelligence...
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It was the 9/11 attacks, and the media's coverage of them, that first led Gil-White to stake out his controversial positions. Hungry for investigative reports on the attacks, he came across "The Emperor's New Clothes," a Web site run by a former 1960s activist, Jared Israel, who claims to have "evidence of high-level government complicity on 9/11."
The Web site's 9/11 claims are based on President Bush's reaction on the morning of the attacks, the fact that the Air Force failed to shoot down the jetliners, and the authors' disbelief that federal and military officials couldn't have anticipated such attacks. Gil-White said he examined the claims and found them completely convincing; hence, his "inside job" characterization.
He's now the site's deputy editor and has written extensively for it about the war in Yugoslavia, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. All subjects, Gil-White said, that are related to his academic training in the psychology of ethnicity.
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