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9/11 an inside job? NYC speaks out

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Published 11 September, 2009, 12:48

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Web journalist Lori Harfenist found on the streets of NYC that, eight years after the 9/11, New Yorkers think it’s scary to think it was an inside job, because if so – what can you believe in or and who can you trust?

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