Kurt Sonnenfeld
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Kurt Sonnenfeld | |
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| Born | December 18, 1962 |
| Occupation | Photographer, videographer, writer |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
Kurt Sonnenfeld (born December 18, 1962) is an American granted political asylum in Argentina after convincing former President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa [citation needed] and other high-ranking officials of the conspiracy theory that there had to have been foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks because, among other things, the massive gold vaults at World Trade Center 6 had already been opened and emptied of their contents before the attack. Sonnenfeld had been employed as a videographer for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and had unusual authority to document the rubble scene at the World Trade Center site after the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001.[1] On New Year's Eve 2002, at his Colorado home, Sonnenfeld's wife Nancy died of a gunshot to the head; Sonnenfeld said she had committed suicide, but police arrested him and charged him with her murder. In 2002, the murder charges were dropped for lack of evidence, but the prosecutor reserved the right to refile the charges. Sonnenfeld departed for Argentina soon thereafter, and had his 9/11 videos sent to Argentina along with his personal belongings. He remarried to an Argentine and made a voluntary visit to the US embassy in Buenos Aires to secure a visa for his new wife. The couple went on to have children. The US federal government has made numerous attempts to extradite him back to the US for the 2001 murder of his wife Nancy. The Argentine government cited its opposition to the death penalty in its denial of the extradition requests, despite the death penalty not being a factor in this case. Sonnenfeld insists that the US government is using the death of his wife Nancy to get at him for not handing over all the videos, which he has stated prove that the official 9/11 narrative of a surprise attack is false. [citation needed]
