Why did the US GOV engineer 9-11?
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Because they needed a way to manipulate Americans into supporting the long-planned invasion of the Middle East.  The psyops division in the US government knows that manipulating fear and nationalism are key to support for military action.\n\nAmericans would have agreed to attack just about anywhere after 9/11 - so they knew that all they had to do was to tie the attacks to Afganistan (first objective) and then lie about a tie to Iraq (one of the main targets/objective).\n\nThe good news it that we didn't have to wait 40 years for some of these truths to be coming out - the bad news is that the Congress and the media could have stopped the invasion but chose to censor the news/reports so that the agenda could be advanced.  Since the media is owned by corporations who profit from war, it's not really surprising that they would censor the truth about the lies they knew were being told, help to build nationalism and fear and outrage, and NOT investigate the obvious flaws in the official story about the attacks of 9/11...\n\nand of course they depended to a great deal on the general arrogance and ignorance of the American public.\n\nIf you google Operation Northwoods, you'll find that attacking your own country and blaming it on the "Terrorist" nation of the Month (to justify invasion) is nothing new...
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I think it very convincing. I remember wondering why there was no exterior plane wreckage the day it happened. If it was a missile or a military plane the government would want to hush it up as it would be difficult to pin that on Islamic nationalists unless they had help. It is a bit like the anthrax attacks. One of the 9-11skyjackers was treated for an anthrax skin lesion, an extremely rare condition before 9-11. There was also a very direct link between one of the skyjackers and the first anthrax victim. His former landlord worked in the same building. Yet the government avoided investigating any links and tried to find a scapegoat.
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They were planning this war before 9/11!
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You have asked an extremely complex and legal question. If the United States Government was in fact responsible for the events leading up to and on 9/11, then Treason at the highest levels of government was committed.\n\nThe popular mechanics issue that was referred to prior has been debunked by scholars for the 9/11 truth as improbable. In fact their are many PHD scholar's in the various fields that have raised question, viewed evidence and raised interesting questions on the official government story. PBS attempted to recreate the pancake theory and could only do so if the 40 interior columns were removed from the WTC towers. The collapse of building 7 has yet to be explained. There is documented proof that evacuations of the world trade centre had taken place prior to the attacks. The weekend before 9/11 the world trade centre was closed and all electrical power was turned off so new Internet cable could be installed. This meant all security systems were down for The entire weekend. On Sept 8th all remaining bomb sniffing dogs were removed from the WTC and services were no longer required. On the morning of Sept 11th, there was a live fly exercise taking place over the North East quadrant of the United States. This was part of a series of war games taking place throughout the United states, Canada and Greenland, all under the control of Dick Cheny.\n\nAt the same time FEMA was on pier 29 in lower Manhattan running operation tripod two. This was a simulation of a chemical  and biological attact on New York. How interesting that FEMA would have a fully operational command post in place on 9/11. Operation vigilant guardian was the live fly exercise simulating hi-jacked airliners moving towards New York City.\n\nOn the morning of 9/11 air traffic controllers were dealing with 19 hi-jacked airliners in the live fly scenario with all transponders turned off. They in effect could not distinguish between the real hi-jacked planes and those involved in the war game. To further complicate matters, there were only eight fighters left to protect the North East quadrant of the United States. Fighters travel in a formation of two, so technically they could only cover four hi-jacked airliners when dispatched. No fighters were dispatched until after all planes had found their targets. What is interesting to note here, is that Vice President Cheney was given a 45 minute heads up on the approaching hi-jacked airliner moving to the pentagon. As the man in charge of the war games underway he would have known which airliners was part of the operation versus the real hi-jacked airliners. \n\nThe Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was established in spring 1997. The nonprofit organization declared that its goal was “to promote American global leadership.” PNAC, which has been inactive since late 2005, was an initiative of the New Citizenship Project, whose chairman is William Kristol, PNAC described itself as a “nonprofit educational organization supporting American military, diplomatic, and moral leadership.”  PNAC's board of directors had the following members, as listed on its website as of May 26, 2006: William Kristol (chairman), Robert Kagan, Bruce Jackson, Mark Gerson, and Randy Scheunemann. Staff members: Ellen Bork (acting executive director), Gary Schmitt (senior fellow), Thomas Donnelly (senior fellow), Reuel Gerecht (director of the Middle East Initiative), Timothy Lehmann, (assistant director), and Michael Goldfarb (research associate). 1\nPNAC's 1997 “Statement of Principles” set forth a new agenda for foreign and military policy that William Kristol and Robert Kagan described as “neo-Reaganite.” Signatories of this charter document said that they aimed “to make the case and rally support for American global leadership.” 2 Excerpts from the statement follow: \n“We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to
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Because they signed a contract with the U.S. government obliging them to do so, if so ordered.  \nAny more dumba** questions?
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Ulitmatey the US was.  The Bush administration showed a total lack of dilligence and competancy.  This happened on their watch.  I don't have a lot of faith in a president who reads books about pet goats when we are under attack.\n\nAlso lets hear it for the National Security Advisor, Condisleeza Rice or Can't Believuh Rice. She had no idea someone might fly planes into buildings? The World Trade center was DESIGNED to handle a hit from a 707.\nAny one read Tom Clancy's DEBT of HONOR where a 747 gets flown into the capitol...and that came out in 1995.\n\nOur foreign policy and economic policies were catylysts as well.  9/11 was a sympton of an underlying problem and a complex one at that.  See the movie Sryiana ( sp?).
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Yes they did, there are memos all over the 9/11 report saying that the Clinton administration, under the direction of Sillary did rig explosive sin the Cole in advance of the planes being flown into them and at the exact time of the explosion the earth warmed 3 degrees proving beyond any doubt that Al Gore did invent the Internet!!
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The bush administration is responsible for the whole 9-11 attack. Watch 9-11: Loose Change (2nd Edition).
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The steel in anengine is nothing like the steel in a building, but otherwise you have the right idea.\n9/11 was definitely a government inside job.
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YOU SAID,\n"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S.) and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high\nenough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."\n\nIm not convinced that he is speaking of the WTC in this quote. He doesnt mention it anyway. I think this is just general intelligence of a plan to use explosives in buildings.....and if they did.....they would use them high-up floors so people would be trapped.\n\nListen, I know 9/11 was an inside job. Anyone who has really listened to Alex Jones....the retired Generals......the Norad stand-down.....the FBI admitted to us all that they were paying for the houses, the cars, the credit cards of the supposed hijackers......... Sept. '01, 25,000 British troops ensemble in Oman near Afghanistan for Operation Swift Sword on U.S orders.........Marvin Bush was head of company that did security for Dulles and WTC.Bushs WTC contract ended on 9/11/2001.....#7...Norman Minetta testimony.......8:30 in the morning September 11, 2001. CIA was running a drill 15 miles from the World Trade Center that day flying jets into buildings in New York and DC. Targets- world trade center and pentagon.............Bush signing W199i........Silversteins world record insurance policy with the unheard of clause of "act of terrorism" 6 six weeks before the attacks....... FEMA/ARMY FM-19.40...........OPERATION NORTHWOODS,OPERATION NORTHERN VIGILANCE,BIOWARFARE EXERCISE TRIPOD II, ............Rumsfeld predicts terrorist attack in US 2 minutes before 1st WTC plane crash and later predicts Pentagon crash minutes prior.........FAA manager mangled, cut, and destroyed 9/11 tapes........the FL National Guard on alert. ...Pentagon releases poor quality video showing 'OBL' bragging about attacks, but is seen writing with right hand which FBI says he's left-handed, wearing a gold ring and watch which are forbidden in Islam, and Bush Admin uses this video to vindicate US invasion that everybody buys................1999, US paid entire annual salary of Taliban gov't ...........U.S. OK’d a plan the day before 9/11 to topple the Taliban and expel OBL. ....project for a new American centuryKristol.......16ft hole in the pentagon that a "boeing jet" somehow managed to get through without breaking the windows 10 ft away..............Sept 11, an airport emergency operations exercise is being conducted at Fort Myer, a mile from the Pentagon.........White House staff given Cipro on 9/11, full month before first cases of anthrax reported. .............FAA bans takeoffs at 9:26 am for all civilian, military, or law enforcement aircraft \n\nShould I go on? Im so upset from typing that now I dont know what else to say except keep fighting the good fight becuase the real one it is coming.
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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. \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, that was not even hit by a jet.\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 prior to the attack: He made upwards of $5 billion off
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It might be withholding some information on the grounds of national security of for legal reasons but in the main the events of that day are so well documented that it would be difficult to withold any of the salient facts.\n\nThere are conspiracy theories that 9/11 was orchestrated by the FBI and other US agencies but as with all conspiracy theories, they don't stand up to even the most basic of examinations and are based on ignorance not fact.
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they waited five years because it really isn't a plane...it is actually a UFO full of aliens, and the landed here illegaly.\n\nThey had to wait untill the immigration debate became the hot topic.\n\nAnd also, it wasn't two planes that crashed into the twin towers, it was a missle.\n\n3000 plus people didn't die on 9/11...there hanging out in cryogenic suspension in area 51.\n\n\ncome on get over it....people hate us because of our values and our freedoms...they want us dead.\n\nBush didn't do it to improve his stadings and validate his presidency
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there are surveilliance cameras every 100 feet around the Pentagon. All video of the crash has been locked away.\n\nOther facts:\n\n-multiple explosions were heard as the buildings were collapsing.\n-there was an explosion on the first floor of WTC lobby elevator shaft before the building fell.\n-passport was found at ground zero belonging to one of the highjackers, completely intact.\n-9 of the 19 highjackers were found ALIVE in various parts of the world, after 9/11.\n-all building security was removed, for a few hours, from the WTC 2 weeks before 9/11 so that government agents could perform a security drill.\n-cell phone technology wasn't well enough in 2001 to allow calls from planes.\n\nSomething sinister has happened. Since then the US government has created laws (Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act) that allow them to do whatever they want whenever they want in the name of Homeland Security.\n\nJust wait until the time comes when all US citizens are required to have RFID implants. Laws will be in place so that you cannot function without having one. No banking, no shopping, no medical visits.\n\nUSA Freedom...just an illusion.
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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
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Good question. \nDo a web search for the movie Loose Change for those of you who haven't seen it. I promise it will make you start to question what actually happened on 9/11.
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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. \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 prior to the attack: He made upwards of $5 billion off of the a