9/11 Official Story -- Truth or Fiction?
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Fiction. Here's why:\n1-The entire United States intelligence community knew of the 9/11 attacks before hand, including the fact that commercial jets were to be used as bombs; they also knew the approximate dates and possible targets but were called off their investigations.\n2-There is incontrovertible evidence that the US Air Force all across the country was comprehensively "stood down" on the morning of September 11th. Routine security measures, normally in place, which may well have been able to prevent the attacks, or reduce their impact, were suspended for one hour while the attacks were in progress, and re-instated once they were over.\n3-Neither the Joint Chief of Staff, the Secretary of Defense nor the President of the United States acted according to well established emergency protocols.\n4-Prior to 9/11, the US intelligence agencies should have stopped the nineteen terrorists from entering this country for intelligence reasons, alone. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers' visas should have been unquestionably denied because their applications were incomplete and incorrect.\n5-How did many of the hijackers receive clearance for training at secure U.S. military and intelligence facilities, and for what purposes? Many of the terrorist pilots received their initial training in Venice, Florida at one of two flight schools of highly questionable credibility and with approval of US intelligence.\n6-At a time when the U.S. intelligence community was on alert for an imminent Al-Qaeda attack, the Bush Administration made it easier for Saudi visitors to come to the U.S. under a program called U.S. Visa Express, introduced four months before September 11th.\n7-The September 11th disaster has resulted in power and profit at home and abroad by both the Bin Laden and the Bush families.\n8-Revelations of profits made by insider trading relating to the 9/11 attacks, point to the top levels of US business and the CIA. \n9-Selected persons were told not to fly that day. Newsweek reported that on September 10th, "a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns." \n10-In June of 2001, the FAA rescinded a 40-year-old rule allowing pilots to carry guns into the cockpit.\n11-In July of 2001, a CIA official was reported to have met with Osama bin Laden, who was receiving treatment for kidney problems at an American hospital in Dubai. \n12-On the morning of 9/11, Sen. Bob Graham (head of Senate Intelligence Committee) and Rep. Porter Goss (head of House Intelligence Committee) had breakfast with General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistani Intelligence, who had earlier directed that $100,000 be wired to Mohamad Atta, terrorist ringleader.\n13-The official story is that the black boxes (voice and data recorders) from Flight 11 and Flight 175 were never retrieved from the World Trade Tower wreckage. However, firefighters Mike Bellone and Nicholas DeMasi say they assisted the FBI in retrieving three of the four black boxes in December, 2001.\n\nIn response to the guy posting after me, try reading the 9/11 Commission Report. I have added links to other sources below:
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Yes, like many other false-flag operations, 9-11 was an inside job planned and executed by elements of the "Anglo-American" (Zionist) shadow government.  Essentially, the purpose of the attack was to prop up the unstable currencies of private central banks, such as the Federal Reserve and Bank of England and European Central Bank, which issue money backed by their ability to bribe and blackmail governments to maintain a big and scary military-industrial complex that steals oil and natural gas for private profit.
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yes, that is true...have you ever seen the lose change video?  you need to watch it, its a VERY interesting take on 9/11...\n\nhere is the link for it\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose change\n\nits a video that was made to show that the government could have been behind the entire thing...kind of scary.
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you are right to be curious, there are major cover-ups going on regarding 9/11. i would invite you to view www.911truth.org (i'm not affiliated with them).  also www.scholarsfor911truth.org .\n\nthere are many more but those will get you started :)
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Most all the evidence that is available to us, show that the WTC buildings were rigged with explosives. Our own government had motive as was well as an opportunity to do this crime. Here is the evidence, presented for your scrutiny.  The picture of the cut core beam should be of special interest to someone with demolition knowledge.\n\nFAKE CONFESSION\nThe official government story is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, which is lead by Osama bin Laden. The proof our government provided was a video with Osama confessing to the crime. The problem with the video is that the person in the video does not look like Osama bin Laden: See picture.\nhttp://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk519bkcLjg\n\nEVIDENCE\nThere are many other factors that do not fit the official story. They include, secondary explosions that were seen, heard, reported, and recorded by firefighters, in and around the WTC buildings.\nhttp://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928&q=firefighter+bombs+in+the+building\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHz9YWVgJWM\n\nHere is a video clip showing a trail of explosions just before the destruction wave.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DkzhonpGY&mode=related&search=\n\nMolten, beyond red hot, "steel" was video recorded coming out of the South Tower just before it collapsed. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to turn steel to liquid.  Melted red hot steel was also found in "ground zero" of all three WTC buildings, including WTC7; the one no jet ever hit.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk&search=thermite\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ\n\nFORENSICS\nA chemical analysis of the solidified molten iron,conducted by independent firms, yielded an explosive, called Thermite. Also found was a WTC core beam; most probably cut using the demolition cutting charge (Thermate). No core beams were left standing beyond a few feet high, for it to have been cut by an Iron Workers torch. Click on pic. to enlarge.\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml\n\nCONFESSION \nWe also have a video recording, where owner Larry Silverstein, admits to demolishing WTC7.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329\n\nTESTIMONY\nThere is also a problem with the Pentagon attack. Listen to this retired general, He says, "The Plane does not fit the hole; so what did hit the Pentagon..."\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VoUN-7RVU&eurl=\n \nThis video, obtained by a public interest group, shows the top rear fin of an air craft hiding behind a call box: Whatever is hiding back there, is under 48 ft. long, to small to be a Boeing 757, which is over 155 ft. long.\nhttp://www.clipaday.com/2006/05/pentagon_plane_crash_from_sept.html\n\nMOTIVE\nThe New Conservatives (Neo-Cons), with the help of their friends, started planning the invasion of Iraq, shortly after Pres. Bush took office. Apparently, the plan would include the attack of the WTC buildings. It did this to get the support of congress and the nation, to attack Iraq. Read it from their own PENAC document. Pay special attention to the section entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" page 50 and the top of page 51, where it states we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get the ball rolling.\nhttp://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\n\nOPPORTUNITY\nWitnesses saw a work crew going into the WTC buildings with rolls of wire, supposedly for internet upgrades. Tenants were moved around while crews "upgraded" the cable systems. The Port Authority cut power to the building for a whole weekend, just prior to the attack; shutting down the entire security systems. Witnesses also heard crews operating heavy hammering equipment that left a gray cement like dust, in the building. This activity took place just weeks before the 911 attack: The Port Authority had released control of the buil
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The "OBL and the 7 dwarfs" theory is probably the least plausible conspiracy case for the 9/11 attacks.  Unfortunately, it is the only one that has been investigated in "back-assward fashion".\n\nNormally, in a real investigation, you look at motive, opportunity, and resources.  You investigate and gather the facts on those things, and then you build a case that fits the facts.  You don't start with an instant conclusion and then work backwards to change or cherry-pick facts to fit your conclusion.  In science they call this "pathological science", where a mad scientist comes up with a wierd theory and then proves it with narrow examples...and facts contradicting this theory are summarily tossed out, changed outright, or ridiculed.  In law, this kind of theorizing leads to "kangaroo courts", where the "burden of proof" is on the defendent and not the prosecution.\n\nThe real video evidence, science, 1st-hand witness statements, and paper-trails all contradict the official conspiracy theory.  Will we ever get a confession of those that pulled the strings?  Of course not, but it is enough for Americans to wake up, see the truth, and those that did perpetrate the attacks won't be able to pull off another one.
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Anyone that has ever been interested, this is the same old boring video that has been out forever on the net.  It is NOT one of the two high-speed or high-resolution videos confiscated from both a nearby gas station and the roof of a nearby hotel by the FBI.\n\nThough Fox News is saying that this now "explains everything, go back to bed folks", it answers absolutely zero real questions about 9/11.\n\nThe families of the victims of 9/11 gave a list of 263 pertinent questions to the 9/11 Commission.  They received clear answers to just 17.  They need to know what happened to their loved ones, and we as Americans deserve the truth.
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Well the key word in there is 'we'. Even if our government was able to determine the true origin of a staged t. attack, I'm sure 'we', the public, would never be told.\n\nAs for whether or not it is possible: sure.
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WOW!\n Im amazed at how many of you believe what mainstream media tells you.\n Was 911 a conspiracy? I will leave a few comments ,try a little research yourself while we still are permitted to do so in the USA.\n\n Who actually benifits from this..?\n\n!!!WAR = MONEY!!!\n\nBush Jr : Scares Americans into the Patriot Act\nBush Sr : Main supporter of the NEW World Order\nJedd Bush : Just happened to own the security co. in charge of the WTC buildings.\nF.E.M.A : now has the power of martial law.\nLarry Silverstein :By far cashed in more than anybody,On 9/11, by his own admission, Larry Silverstein ordered the demolition of his building. No jet hit this building but It did hold FBI, CIA records.\nthe Gobalists\nSupporters of the Patriot Act and a Police State\n\nThis is just a scare tactic to sucker americans into giving up more of thier freedoms in order further the adjenda of a one world governement and it's top tier members. \n\nJUST SAY NO! TO PATRIOT ACT 2 ,It may not be in your face now ,but just wait until the next government sponsered terror act (dirty bomb) they continue to desenstize you to through mainstream media(FOX)\n \nIf your really interested in preserving your freedom and understanding the full truth of 9/11 check out these sites below for the full details of exactly who was responsible.\n\nAlso you can go to google video and view many video's about this. Lookfor:\n\nLooseChange2\nMartial Law 911 rise of the police state\n\n\n<<<<<NJ Port authority>>>>>dont just respond for points here....\n\nLarry Silverstein invested $386 million in WTC 7.  On 9/11, by his own admission, Larry Silverstein ordered the demolition of his building.  In February of 2002, his company won a settlement of $861 million from "Industrial Risk Insurers".  Do the math, Silverstein and not NJ PORT AUTHORITY!!!
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A great deal is implied in your question. If I read it as I think you intended it, you mean to illicit some of the various conspiratorial beliefs surrounding the events of that infamous day.\n\nThe official, and still controversial version of events, are recored in the “9/11 Report.” You can get a copy for free here : http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911... if you care to “thumb” through the 580 some odd pages of report.\n\nAs an aside, there were no 737's used in attacks. Two 757's and Two 767's were used to attack economic, military and, it is believed, political targets. I say believed because in addition to the World Trade Center, it is believed that the White House and The Capitol were among the originally intended targets. \n\nWhile you can get a chronological breakdown of what happened that fateful day, most people seem to miss the fact that Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda succeeded in proving that radical Islam and the West were at war. This is a fact that few American leaders from either party chose to recognize,  until 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9/11. See references to the prior WTC, the Khobar Towers, Embassy's in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole bombings, all of which occurred before 2000 and about which nothing was effectively done.\n\nIf you are inclined to entertain conspiratorial ideas about 9/11, fine, but keep this in mind;  contradictions don't exist. If your faced with one, check your premises because one or more of them must be wrong. This is not to say that conspiracy is impossible, but rather, try to reconcile the facts before moving on to conjecture. \n\nWe remain at war to this day.
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You raise the big question that is never answered.  The big boys make decisions for us all, based on what and for whom?  We are naively raised to believe that they are serving us, but we all are savvy enough now to realize that the story we were told is not often true at all.  Whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan, Katrina, education, our borders, whatever, we find that there is a huge difference from what we expect  and what actually happens.  We all suspect, for whatever reason, that things are not on the level, and that our interests are being sold down the river.  Some of us think it is minor, some of us think it is treason.  What we get are phony explanations with the truth obscured for generations, all to protect us.  Whether it is JFK's assassination, the 9/11 investigation where the important chapter is not released, the true story of why there was no help for our citizens after Katrina and no insurance for their losses, we find we don't get the true story.  You can bet we will not get it now while we invade countries that have not attacked us, all under the guise of going after the perpetrators of 9/11.  What is Cheney doing talking to the Saudi Prince?  We would all like to know.
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ok i've watched loose change four times or so now, and spent way too much time reading on various websites, they make some convincing points...but then they ignore alot of stuff as well...like common sense.\n\ncould there be some conspiracy behind 911? yes there could be. is it these theories that are popularly being advanced currently on the web...no\n\nstart at the end and work your way forward: the point of 911 was to destroy some buildings.  there are easier ways for the government to pull this off than to.\nsecretly swap planes in the air for non-passenger drone places, fly two of them into buildings, which they already rigged with additional explosives, secretly land the planes, secretly kill the passengers, fake a plane crash at one location, get voice samples from passengers to load into a computer to produce fake phone calls to loved ones with, then swap one plane for a missle (never mind that some claim this was a smaller drone plane) fire it into the pentagon, get 100 or so people to claim they saw a plane(this is ignored by loose change which uses two of the four people that claimed to not have seen a plane) then run around real fast knocking over the light poles etc...loose change claims a plane couldn't knock over those lamp poles that way, but never tries to explain how they were knocked over, if we assume that not all 100+ witnesses were cia plants, then we have to wonder why no one went, "and there these guys ran around loosening all the bolts on those lamps and pushed them over and ran off! dam kids!"\n\nloose change and other sources also use alot of broadcasts from very early after the attacks took place during which there was alot of confusion about what happened, live news especially while something is happening doesn't always get things 100% correct and uses alot of speculation to fill in time while they figure things out.\n\nloud thuds of things like, say upper floors falling into lower ones, could no doubt sound very much like other explosions going off.\n\nthe list goes on and on, but this post is getting rather long.\n\nok so lets face it, thats one complicated plan to bring down some buildings.  you could just blow them up, blame who ever you wanted to, say you are investigating how security could have been breached to such an extent, and leave it at that.\n\nits just too complicated of a conspiracy, that would take way way too many people to keep their mouths shut.
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of course it was. u can never believe any thing they say and when they told bush that the 1st plane crashed he wasnt even surprised because he knew it was coming and he just sat there reading to the kids. the one that crashed into the pentagon was believed to be a missle since there werent ANY parts of the plane found there. so yeah i think it is but its your opinion :)
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I read parts of the Scientific American cover story debunking 9/11 myths; it was some time ago but it seemed to thoroughly refute all the conspiracy theories it covered.\n\nMany conspiracy theories seem convincing on their face; it's only when you dig deeper that the inherent flaws are revealed.\n\nThe biggest flaw with this and other conspiracy theories is the sheer number of people who would have to be involved in the cover-up.  Hard to believe that so many people could be coerced, bribed, manipulated or forced into this and not one of them would spill the beans -- some secrets are just too good not to tell!
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I don't think facts matter at all to the current admin. They find all facts somewhat troublesome, and prefer to invent their own stories, not just on 9/11, but on everything.\nI think there must have been an national competition to determine who were the best liars as a part of the selction techniques for the staff of the current admin.
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Sadly, I believe are government had everything to do with 9/11.  Most all the evidence that is available to us, show that the WTC buildings were rigged with explosives. Our own government had motive as was well as an opportunity to do this crime. Here is the evidence I have been able to find.  \n\nFAKE CONFESSION\nThe official government story is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, which is lead by Osama bin Laden. The proof our government provided was a video with Osama confessing to the crime. The problem with the video is that the person in the video does not look like Osama bin Laden: See picture.\nhttp://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk519bkcLjg\n\nEVIDENCE\nThere are many other factors that do not fit the official story. They include, secondary explosions that were seen, heard, reported, and recorded by firefighters, in and around the WTC buildings.\nhttp://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928&q=firefighter+bombs+in+the+building\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHz9YWVgJWM\n\nHere is a video clip showing a trail of explosions just before the destruction wave.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DkzhonpGY&mode=related&search=\n\nMolten, beyond red hot, "steel" was video recorded coming out of the South Tower just before it collapsed. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to turn steel to liquid.  Melted red hot steel was also found in "ground zero" of all three WTC buildings, including WTC7; the one no jet ever hit.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk&search=thermite\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ\n\nFORENSICS\nA chemical analysis of the solidified molten iron,conducted by independent firms, yielded an explosive, called Thermite. Also found was a WTC core beam; most probably cut using the demolition cutting charge (Thermate). No core beams were left standing beyond a few feet high, for it to have been cut by an Iron Workers torch. Click on pic. to enlarge.\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml\n\nCONFESSION \nWe also have a video recording, where owner Larry Silverstein, admits to demolishing WTC7.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329\n\nTESTIMONY\nThere is also a problem with the Pentagon attack. Listen to this retired general, He says, "The Plane does not fit the hole; so what did hit the Pentagon..."\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VoUN-7RVU&eurl=\n \nThis video, obtained by a public interest group, shows the top rear fin of an air craft hiding behind a call box: Whatever is hiding back there, is under 48 ft. long, to small to be a Boeing 757, which is over 155 ft. long.\nhttp://www.clipaday.com/2006/05/pentagon_plane_crash_from_sept.html\n\nMOTIVE\nThe New Conservatives (Neo-Cons), with the help of their friends, started planning the invasion of Iraq, shortly after Pres. Bush took office. Apparently, the plan would include the attack of the WTC buildings. It did this to get the support of congress and the nation, to attack Iraq. Read it from their own PENAC document. Pay special attention to the section entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" page 50 and the top of page 51, where it states we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get the ball rolling.\nhttp://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\n\nOPPORTUNITY\nWitnesses saw a work crew going into the WTC buildings with rolls of wire, supposedly for internet upgrades. Tenants were moved around while crews "upgraded" the cable systems. The Port Authority cut power to the building for a whole weekend, just prior to the attack; shutting down the entire security systems. Witnesses also heard crews operating heavy hammering equipment that left a gray cement like dust, in the building. This activity took place just weeks before the 911 attack: The Port Authority had released control of the buildings to Larry Silverstein, six weeks p
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The Pentagon was hit by a plane on 9/11, bud, so try reading a paper occasionally.\n\nThe 'proof' about the Pentagon conspiracy theory is based mainly on one ambiguous photo of the damage done to the building after the plane hit. This is mostly the work of a French journalist Thierry Meyssan who wrote the book 9/11: The Big Lie soo after it happened.