quote:

---

Why would American leaders want to kill nearly 3000 of their fellow countrymen? Mr Walter points to a September 2000 document called Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century, produced by a neo-conservative think tank, Project for the New American Century.

It argued for a dramatic build-up in US military spending, but warned this transformation "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbour".

He is offering $US1 million ($1.36 million) to anyone who can prove that explosives were not used in the World Trade Centre.

---

quote:

---

Why is he spending his money on this? "I'm 58 years old, I have no kids, no wife, no family."

He is now living in Austria, where he moved after his car was attacked. When the phone line drops out, he jokes about the CIA. "Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you," he says.

---