who thinks 9/11 could have been prevented?
544195
Yeah. If USA was not intervening with other countries' business, it would have been prevented. From the way US is acting in Iraq and with Iran, I am not sure what US have learnt from 911 though.. Osama and his people are devils trained by US.
716287
They would have had to have been doing it for a very long time.  If you have read international current events he has been in the news for at least 15 years.  He was behind the first World Trade center bombing too back when Clinton was in office.  They also would have had to invent his whole family which are millionaires and billionaires in Saudia Arabia.
476972
I don't think it was preventable at all.\n\nIf you piss off a large proportion of the world for long enough then someone is going to do something crazy.\n\nEven with the somewhat police state methods now being used we're still due for more terrorism. \n\nHurricane Katrina couldn't have been prevented as it was caused by weather, but the reaction in terms of getting people out could have been better. So could actually rebuilding the levies properly before the hurricane. bit of a pity most of the national guard  and army engineers who were supposed to be working on it were out of the state relieving other national guards sent to iraq or sent there themselves....
781344
Yes, we can stop terrorism.\nDispose of the secret services. The CIA/MI6/Mossad/ISI were between them responsible for 9/11, 7/7, Madrid train bombing, Bali bombing, Mumbai train bombing, Lockerbie air disaster, and many others - all blamed on Arabs or Muslims in order to keep people terrorised and prepared to give away their freedom in exchange for ill-perceived security.
1030683
The only person I can think of off hand who was supposed to be there and was not was Sarah Ferguson, "Fergie", Prince Andrew's ex-wife.  She allegedly had a meeting scheduled in one of the offices, but her taxi was slowed down because of a traffic jam.\n\nI do not know if this answer gives the answers you are looking for.  I agree that a lot of questions remain to be answered about September 11, 2001.  I once asked a question on Yahoo! Answers to that effect, but it was erased because of a "No Best Answer" vote.  A lot of people do not seem to like it when people ask legitimate questions about September 11, 2001, thinking that skepticism about certain incidents is a callous disregard for the people who were killed.  I do not agree.  Many of the victims were hard working people who were not "big takers" and were not even rich.  I thought the terrorists did not like the ones who were  like George W. Bush.  Neither the terrorists or the government make sense to me.
779357
Today, the terrorists would need to bring a small army to keep the passengers away from them.  Back on 9/11 everyone thought hijackers would not kill the passengers because they needed them for bargaining chips.
1035612
Anything is possible.  Maybe it was a mysterious guy named Bob hiding behind mars, too? \n\nMethinks it's way more probable that 911 was aided/orchestrated in some way by Cheney and his cabal to achieve their much broader agenda of geopolitical and financial goals.\n\nJust see http://newamericancentury.org/ for evidence.
700597
Another attack can occur at almost anytime. No system is 100% fool proof and you can bet that the terrorists are looking and plotting a way to sneak another attack in on us. \n\nYou cant reason with terrorists and they don't understand talk. They kill woman, children and innocent people in the name of their religion, so, how can you reason with crazy people??\n\nWhile I am a democrat, I cant think of one, that could or would have handled 911 the right way. The liberal side of the party wants to talk about everything. They talked and talked in WW2 after getting evidence the Germans were exterminating Jews. They talked people all the way to the gas chambers in Auschwitz's and Treblinka.\n\nThis nation needs to pull together as one, but to do that, we need those people in Washington to do whats right for America, and not for their party. I point my finger at BOTH parties for staying the party line, and not the route that is best for this Nation.
441757
Perhaps the 9/11 monument constuction?
938371
it wouldve been funny...but people dont say 9-11, they say 9-1-1. sorry :o)
471878
Take 9-11. You believe in a conspiracy theory one way or another.\nEither\nA. 19 guys from the Middle East conspired to hijack airplanes and use them as weapons\nB. The government blew up the buildings and then used that as an excuse to start a "war on terror"\nEither way, someone conspired to do something.
433991
September 10th, 2001\n\nKnowing what I do now, I would put together a mass volunteer brigade to phone the companies in the world trade center and explain why the buildings would be closed the next day. I would immediately contact the airports and explain exactly what and who they need to be looking for. Homeland Security would UP the searches! Washington would be notified and put on high alert. The Pentagon would be cleared for security reasons. The families of the people on the dreaded flights would be notified and encouraged to keep their loves ones at home. We would stop the event from happening before they ever had a chance! But we would be prepared in case there were contingency plans were unaware of! September 11th would then be just another ordinary day.
548814
Hurry!  If there was a good theory to stop terrorism don't you think we would have tried it?
892623
Maybe not as bad as it is today, but if Clinton would have allowed the missile strikes on Osama, then maybe none of this would have happened\n\nEDIT:  But as we all know, hindsight is 20/20\n\nEDIT2: Awwwww :)
417410
the question should be - who should be retaliated against.\n\nno black boxes found, no in depth public investigation of each plane, no plane found in the pentagon, etc. etc. etc.  \n\nhmmm.  certainly the work of muslims (or not)......\n\nwe all knew it was bs from the word go
1149911
Absolutely absurd. How could the US have helped 9/11? Why would  they? How would no one have come up with any credible evidence after all these years? What reason is there to think that it was not a well-planned attack, run by a large group of Arab terrorists? I think that is the story that fits the evidence.\n\nThey're not addressed in any plausible way. Vast conspiracies don't actually happen or work. Someone always finds out, and yet there's no evidence of this conspiracy.\n\nEdit: Jets did not intercept the planes because they are stationed hundreds of miles from where they were and were not alerted until shortly before the planes crashed. The FAA notified NORAD at 8:40 and planes were scrambled 6 minutes later, 153 miles from the World Trade Center and the first plane crashed at about that time. http://mckinneysucks.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_mckinneysucks_archive.html#77997492\n\nThe buildings fell quickly because they were crashed into by giant airliners. It seems like a building like that should be able to withstand more, but neither you, nor I, nor Ruppert, nor even the engineers who built the towers know what it is like for a plane to crash into a building. The commission report clearly states that the plane struck main support beams and started fires that raged at intense temperatures, further weakining the already weakened supports. Once that happens it doesn't take long for a building to collapse onto itself.\n\nAs for WTC7, the report is clear enough that fires were started on several floors by debris. People say it looks too controlled, but they failr to realize that buildings that tall are made to crumble down and not out. If a main beam buckles, there's no momentum to throw debris out - the force is all down.\n\nHow long it took to form a commission is a question I have myself, but that alone does not make a conspiracy.\n\nAs for explosions, see this: http://www.geocities.com/factsnotfantasy/ExplosivesDebunked.html
1141402
The events of September 11, 2001 made me realize the US is vulnerable.  I had always kind of felt that threats like terrorists attacks were not really a threat to us.  Then we were attacked like that on our own soil and I saw how vulnerable we really are.  It is only by the grace of God that humans have not wiped themselves out by now.