Was 9/11 really an outside attack?
408808
Thats a good question and you are certainly NOT a freak for asking it! I certainly think there is more to it than the 'powers that be' would like us to think. It is ALWAYS healthy to ask questions of those who govern/control, otherwise we become ignorant sheep.
1142093
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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Absolutely.  Go watch this video and decide for yourself.\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose+change\n\nDon't you find it odd that the buildings came down so straight and perfect, just like a controlled demolition does?  As though someone planted charges in the buildings.  Yes, a plane slammed into each building, but this was just too neat for me.  If you DON"T think there was government conspiracy, you're not paying attention.  They will sacrifice you, me, anybody to further their cause (money).  Do you realize that the United States supported Saddam Hussein?  That we funded him when he got into office?  That the United States gave him a list of what people they wanted assasinated?  Pay attention, dig, and question.  You will be outraged.\n\nAlso, go here:\n\nhttp://www.tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_facts.html
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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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I think the terrorists planned to use 9/11 because it would indicate that the "day the U.S. called for help." But in my thoughts, I don't think the terrorists got as far as they hope. From historical references, people claimed there were more terrorists but Bush grounded all flights, and the towers held long enough to keep thousands more safe.
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The muslim-extremists declared a war against the United States well before 9/11.  They found a weakness in how we live our lives here in the US and exploited that weakness to attack and kill civilians in what they feel was a justified military attack.  There was no peace prior to these attacks, there was only a period of time BETWEEN similar attacks.  Attacks on the embassies in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole and several other attacks on US interests around the world were not viewed as real attacks to many people because they were not on US soil.
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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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To some degree the answer is "Yes", there is an ongoing threat of another attack somewhere in our country.\n\nThat being said, this is a very valid question.  To any thinking person, the Bush administration has lost most of it's credibility.  The old adage applies, "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me".\n\nThere may have been a plot but I believe that what we've heard about it is probably exaggerated.  I think the real news story here is the timing between the disclosure of the "plot" and the controversy over the Domestic Spying Program.\n\nAlso, Jonathon Alter's column in this week's "Newsweek" discusses this.  Good reading.
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I read that it was above 50% in New York, but from the answers I get on this .. few people. \n\nI agree with you. The government engineered 9/11 from the beginning. \n\nI also went to a lecture at my university on the subject. There the professor agrees too, that 9/11 was a self inflicted wound... that helped me to come to terms with the truth of the massive conspiracy.
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lucky2bealive, I don't want to disagree with you but I don't believe you are going to find anywhere in the historical records that Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the 9/11 bombings. What he has done is praise the matyrs of that event. However, there would be more clarity and the issue can be put to bed finally if the government gave us the names of all the people that died in the various events. Where are the planes that crashed? Do you really believe that a building like the Pentagon would have cameras that are intermittent and take pictures every 7/8 seconds. Come.. Come. We are talking about the most technologically advanced country in the world. Something smells fishy and the stench cannot be dispersed until the Government come clean. Have you ever seen reports of the examination of  the so called crash sites?
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Hindsight is 20-20, but I'm not sure. We still would have lost American lives so it seems like we would still have gone. However because of how brutal and devastating the attacks were that they hit a target and how they have permanently scared DC and NYC, those things might have had a larger effect on the decision than the acts themselves... OK, I think we would have no matter what. I believe Bush wanted to go to war and unfortunately 9-11 gave him an opportunity to do so without a fight from government or the American people.
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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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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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War in the Middle East was only ONE of the pretexts. I've said it before, and I'll undoubtedly say it again: 9/11 mainly happened as a pretext to getting the Patriot Act passed. The Patriot Act was originally written up following the Oklahoma City bombings but was considered too reactionary. I mean, the Global Agenda has been calling for "Big Brother" type scenarios all over the West, not just the States. So, they needed something bigger to further their Agenda. Hence 9/11. It got people to say to the government, "Do something!!!!" so they pulled out the Patriot Act and formed the Department of Homeland Security in order to justify widespread wiretapping and surveillance of the American people. And it's not really "terrorists" HS is after, people. It is domestic dissenters, grassroots left wingers and the militias, all of whom are the REAL threat not only to the governement but to the military industrial complex which is really running the show. Under the Patriot Act, people like ourselves, who are on this site, answering THIS question, and thereby questioning the gov't's actions are committing a terrorist act. So, therefore, any of us can expect to have our phones and internet lines tapped. This, folks, is the post 9/11 world we live in. I know, some people are in total denial about it and simply write off people like myself as "conspiracy theory kooks" and "left wing nuts", but lemme tell ya, it's us kooks who are going to have the last laugh in the end, because we'll be laughing at all those poor fools who'll be saying, "Damn, I should have listened to the conspiracy theorists; they were right after all!"\nMyself, when the fit hits the shan and the police state really starts kicking in, well, I'll be long gone by then, headed for the hills somewhere and dissappear off the face of the earth. Because I sincerely believe that within the next five years, ten tops, the world we live in and take for granted will no longer exist. We'll all be living in a variation of Nazi Germany; kiss our civil rights and freedoms goodbye. \nThe irony is, unless incontovertible evidence is produced, the real truth behind 9/11 will never be officially exposed. It's worse than the JFK assassination and the UFO question put together, because if the truth ever did come out, well...I think America would turn into 1789 France overnight. I hope...
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I've been to ground zero.  It happened.  Whether Osama, Israel, or the US was  responsible ---is all guesswork at this point.   The US has defiantly staged events like this in the past to justify a war---The sinking of the Maine, Gulf of Tonkin, etc...  But 9/11?   We saw Osama admit it in the videos.  I wouldn't want to think that our country is so evil we could ever do this, although in my heart I know there is a chance we could have.
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NO.  President Bush is just a talking head puppet if you will for forces that control all governments.  I don't think the terrorist identified were responsible or had the resources to pull off an attack like that.  Our government is definitely covering up what happened that day.  There is overwhelming evidence to support that it was an inside job.  I don't think Bush is directly responsible but probably knows what happened.  Any agency or government institution that aids in the cover up or conceals evidence indirectly implies guilt.  They needed a new Pearl Harbor to gain support for there agenda.  Who knows who these behind the scenes people are and exactly what there up to
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Some people think 9/11 was a purposeful choice when choosing when to attact the World Trade Center because across America we use 9-1-1 when there is an emergency.  My own opinion is that it was a coincidence.  I guess no one will ever know for sure.