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PROVO, Utah, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Brigham Young University in Utah has finalized a retirement package with the professor who claimed bombs brought down the World Trade Center towers in 2001.
Physics Professor Steven Jones is due to retire Jan. 1, after BYU placed him on paid leave to review his research paper on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the Deseret (Utah) Morning News said. Neither side released details of the package.
In his paper, Jones said experiments he conducted on material from ground zero and other evidence led him to believe three complex towers fell because pre-set explosives detonated throughout the buildings after the hijacked jets struck the Twin Towers, the Morning News said.
Once the retirement agreement was reached, the Provo university stopped its review, the newspaper said.
Jones submitted a letter to the Morning News, criticizing the Iraqi war and questioning the official explanations of the towers' collapse. He also expressed concern that any future attacks may be blamed on Iran or Syria to justify U.S. actions against those nations, the newspaper said.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth, co-founded by Jones, has collected 2,924 of the 10,000 signatures it wants on a petition supporting Jones to send to the BYU president.
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