Initiatives

Alongside our research and educational activities, the International Center for 9/11 Justice spearheads various initiatives aimed at raising mass public awareness and sparking broad-based demand for justice for the millions of people affected by 9/11. Below is a summary of the Center’s current and recent initiatives.

Geoff Campbell Inquest

IC911 is currently supporting the family of Geoff Campbell, a British citizen who died on the 106th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, in their effort to obtain a new inquest into his death.

The original inquest, held in 2013, concluded that Geoff died when the tower collapsed due to American Airline Flight 11 being deliberately flown into the building. Since then, Geoff’s family has gathered extensive new evidence suggesting the towers’ collapse was caused not solely by aircraft impact but also by pre-planted explosives and/or incendiaries.

In 2021, the family submitted an application to the attorney general for England and Wales seeking consent to petition the High Court for a fresh inquest under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988. The attorney general denied the request in January 2024. The Campbell family subsequently filed for judicial review of that decision, arguing that the AG’s refusal was legally flawed and that the matter is subject to judicial scrutiny.

In a landmark development, on December 5, 2024, the High Court granted a preliminary hearing to determine whether the AG’s refusal is “justiciable” — i.e., subject to judicial review. This ruling marked the first time a UK court has agreed to formally consider whether a decision by the AG to block an inquest can be reviewed by the judiciary.

The hearing is scheduled for June 18, 2025, and will address whether the AG’s decision falls within the scope of review by the court. If the court finds in favor of the Campbells on this threshold issue, it would set a significant precedent, opening the door for the judicial review of decisions previously considered immune due to the AG’s constitutional position.

IC911 is proud to work closely with the Campbell family in their pursuit of justice for Geoff and supports their right to a full and transparent investigation into the true cause of his death.

Watch the Campbell family submit their application for a new inquest in the final scenes of the feature documentary The Unspeakable.

Peace, War and 9/11

Peace, War and 9/11 is a feature documentary that tells the story of the late Dr. Graeme MacQueen, a Buddhist scholar and peace activist who became one of the most respected voices challenging the official narrative of 9/11. He is best known for his meticulous analysis of eyewitness accounts of the World Trade Center’s destruction and for his influential 2013 book The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy, which argued that the anthrax attacks were a key but overlooked part of the 9/11 operation.

The film premiered to a packed theater in Hamilton, Ontario, in September 2023 and received glowing coverage in The Hamilton Spectator and other outlets. Since its release, Peace, War and 9/11 has been viewed over one million times on Redacted and other platforms.

Critics and audiences alike have praised the film for its emotional depth, intellectual rigor, and compelling storytelling. It serves not only as a portrait of one man’s courageous journey but also as an invitation to the broader public to re-examine 9/11 and its consequences through a critical and humane lens.

Firefighters for 9/11 Truth

IC911 proudly serves as the fiscal sponsor and strategic partner of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, an organization of civic-minded, duty-driven firefighters working to awaken the fire service and the general public to the need for a genuine investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Revitalized in recent years after its founding in 2008, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth relaunched with a new website, leadership team, and public awareness campaign, aiming to unify firefighters worldwide around the demand for truth and justice.

As part of its renewed mission, the group produced the powerful short documentary Calling Out BRAVO-7, which features active and retired firefighters speaking out about the glaring discrepancies in the official account of 9/11 — especially the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. You can watch Calling Out BRAVO-7 embedded below.

IC911 is pleased to support this vital effort to honor the 2,977 individuals who perished on 9/11 and to inspire the public to realize that revealing what happened on 9/11 is key to building a better world for all.

ASCE Ethics Complaint

In 2018, with the assistance of IC911 Executive Director Ted Walter and IC911 Founder James Gourley, mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti and philosophy professor Richard Johns filed a formal ethics complaint with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) against Dr. Roberto Ballarini, co-editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (JEM). The complaint arose from the Journal’s 2013 rejection of a Discussion Paper they submitted, which critiqued a 2011 paper by Jia-Liang Le and Zdeněk Bažant on the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Szamboti and Johns’ paper accepted the original authors’ methodology but demonstrated that correcting certain input values reversed the outcome of their analysis.

Despite meeting all procedural requirements and responding to peer review comments, their paper was finally rejected after more than two years of review not on technical grounds but as being “out of scope.” This rationale directly contradicted ASCE’s publication policies, which permit rejection on scope grounds only at the initial submission stage — not after peer review and revisions. Compounding the issue, another discussion paper on the same original paper was published without objection, highlighting a clear inconsistency in editorial treatment.

Crucially, Dr. Ballarini was professionally affiliated with Dr. Le at the time, having served as his department chair and co-authored three papers with him during the relevant period. The complainants argued that Ballarini’s involvement in the final rejection represented a conflict of interest and violated multiple canons of the ASCE Code of Ethics, including those related to fairness, objectivity, and avoidance of conflicts of interest.

After years of procedural delays and failed internal reviews, the ASCE held a long-awaited disciplinary hearing in August 2023 where the complainants were represented by IC911. Despite extensive documentation and evidence — including false statements made by Ballarini and ASCE officials to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) — ASCE’s Executive Committee dismissed the complaint, upholding the original editorial decision without addressing the core ethical violations.

The decision has been widely criticized as a whitewash and emblematic of systemic issues within the ASCE’s ethics and publication processes. As explained in IC911’s in-depth reporting, the outcome reflects a broader failure to uphold scientific integrity and transparency in the face of controversial research surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center.

To facilitate full public understanding and scholarly review, all documents related to this case — including the original complaint, supporting evidence, correspondence, and legal analyses — are archived in the Letters section of the Journal of 9/11 Studies. Some of the complainants also recapped the entire ethics complaint process during a webinar hosted by IC911 (see below).