Do you think that 9/11 was planned by the American government?
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that's a possibility.\nThey say that Osama benladin was a CIA agent and that the American government hired him to start the war thus inevitably giving them access to Iran's oil.\nBut then again this would raise very serious doubts to most Americans.\nNow let me ask you... what made you ask that question?
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Yes, the buildings were insured for an unheard off amount a month before the event and there were numerous other things that point towards this type of theory bin laden and the bush family have had business deals in the past as well as the other players within the New World Order and other secret societies, The rest of the world are just pawns in a game of a chosen few. If a leader of a country denies what is expected of them, they are ejected in one form or another.\nI try not to read too much into it because there is nothing I can do nor anyone else\n\nI also have to add that clinton is in on it as well, from the same group.\n\nDo you really think that it was a matter of fate that the buildings fell like that of a controlled implosion.\n\nI also found it interesting that chaney was hidden away while bush was talking through a blow horn at ground zero
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Did you know that George Bush has been planning to invade Iraq since he was in college. He killed several Americans cuz he wanted revenage.\n\nOf course 9/11 was planned, what better way to start a presidency and try to make himself look good.\n\nThe World Trade Center was built to handle a plane crashing into it. The only damage a plane would do is maybe take out the top two levels of the building, not the whole thing. They had planted explosives in the basement of the World Trade Center and detonated them when the planes collided with the building. If the explosives werent in the basement then the towers would not of fell to pieces with just a plane hitting it.\n\nThey removed the scrapes from the rubble, which to us would be known as evidence cuz they didnt want us knowing the real truth of what really happend. If they kept the scrapes and ran tests on the metals, you would know that something else made the towers coming crashing down.\n\nBush's father was having a meeting with the Bin Ladens down the street the same day the World Trade Center went down. Bush's family is friends with the Bin Ladens. So his excuse for blaming Osma Bin Laden was a lame excuse.\n\nIt definately was a set up. One big conspiracy.
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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.
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This is a very true possibility because there is actual proof of the government hiding what happend on that day... if you recall a plane had also hit the pentagon as well as the towers right... negative there was no plane wreckage at that site. what had actualy hit it was a missle. and the government wants us to believe that it was a plan to not cause panic.
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I do not believe it's a conspiracy.  Here's why:\nIF the government was reponsible, then they would have to bribe all the people who were on the planes, all the family members of the people who were on the planes, all of the people who saw the planes... et cetera et cetera.  A conspiracy like that would take YEARS to come up with, and even longer to execute.  Which would mean that it would have had to have been thought up around the time that LBJ  was in office, because that's about the same time that J Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI.  Why is that?  Because Hoover conducted many wiretaps.  \nWhy would wiretaps be a necessity?  Simple.  To find the people that could be bribed to pull off such a stunt.\nNow, considering the fact that we had a Democratic president in office from 1992-2000, and changes in the Senate, not to mention the FBI and CIA (and the NSA!), that would mean that either A) Clinton, former and current members of Congress and the Senate were in on it, as well as all of the FBI and CIA.  Or B) That there was no conspiracy theory because something like that would have leaked.\nDid the government have prior knowledge that the US was going to be attacked?  YES!  But just like Pearl Harbor, they didn't know when, where or how.  The ONLY way 9/11 could have been prevented would have been to shut down all flights to, from and within the US.  That wouldn't have made much sense, now would it?  And then when there was no terrorist attack, the Bush administration would have been at fault.\nNow, if there truly WAS a conspiracy, don't you think the goverment would be going to greater lengths to shut down the accusations?  Loose Change has been around for awhile now, and Michael Moore hasn't been assassinated yet either.\nWhy don't you put all that energy that you have, and that thirst for the truth, into something a little more productive?  Like, research.  The aformentioned www.popularmechanics.com site would be a great place to start.  The story is called "9/11:  Debunking the Conspiracy Myths."  You could also look into how many other events in history had their own conspiracy theories.  And how many of them were disproved.
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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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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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Thank you.  I lost family members on 9/11.\n\nOn the whole, I agree with your sentiment and much of what you say.  I believe that people in our government were complicit with the attack on 9/11.  Israel kept their people out of the WTC on 9/9, 9/10, and 9/11.  The Egyptian president made 3 separate phone calls to Bush concerning the impending attack.\n\nIt is my feeling that most of the world knew about it except us here in NY (and the rest of the Amercan populaton).  If you remember the news broadcasts the previous summer, most of it had to do with shark bites and a boy who was too old for little league baseball.  No real news.  i was wondering why there was no actual news the whole summer.  I understood the morning of 9/11.\n\nThe Bush family does multi-million dollar business with the Bin Laden family.  why would they hunt down and kill a business partner? Not in their interest.\n\nI also am convinced that there was no passenger plane hitting the pentagon. If you see the actual pictures after the explosion you will undertand that the hole it made was much too small for such a larged winged missile to have hit.  Plus, the area of the pentagon that was damaged was closed for repair.  If I were a terrorist, I would aim for the area that held most of the high-ranking individuals.  if I were the in the White House, I would aim for the portion of the Pentagon that would do the least damage.\n\nAdditionally, I believe no one (including the attackers) had any idea the attack on the WTC would be so successful.\n\nI was told by someone whom I trust that he read that Bush had plans to go to war with Iraq before he even usurped the presidency.  I haven't checked it out, but it does make sense to me.  The fact that he went ahead with his plans despite world-wide protest indicates that he and the rest of the crew are single-mindedy carrying out their own agenda for world domination.\n\nAs I'm writing this I realize how radical it sounds, but it seems to be true anyway.
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Let's think about this a little bit...how long do you think that it would have taken anyone to plan out an attack like that. Think about how many people would have to be involved. I don't think that Bush could have done it in the amount of time that he was president. If you want to believe it was our own government that was involved I would have to start looking at the Clinton administration or administrations preceding that. That doesn't seem to work!\n\nCome on people! There are terrorists out there that want us dead. Why is that so hard to understand. Oh yeah and for those people that sit there and accuse Bush for 9/11 and then sit there and talk about how stupid he is, I think that you need to pick one...because those two ideas do not work together!
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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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Of course not.  There is no evidence, credible or otherwise, that indicates he, or anyone else in government, knew it was going to happen.\n\nWas there any knowledge of some time of terrorist activity in the works?  Likely, just as we've seen several times since then.  The thing to remember is that "knowing that something might happen somewhere, sometime" and "knowing what will happen where, when" are two entirely different things.  Unfrotunately this concept is beyond the grasp of the 3rd graders and those who just have a pathological need to believe the worst about other people.
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I am a liberal. While I don't believe Bush planned 9/11, I do believe he ignored warnings about it.\n\nCIA agents met with bin Laden in July 2001 in a hospital where he could easily have been arrested.\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html\n\nAugust 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing entitled Bin Laden determined to strike in US. PBD indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/\n\nIn late July 2001, Egyptian intelligence received a report from an undercover agent in Afghanistan that "20 al-Qaeda members had slipped into the US and four of them had received flight training on Cessnas." They passed on the message to the CIA, fully expecting Washington to request information.\n\nhttp://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/102347/index.php\n\nDennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, and several other members of Congress refused to meet with FBI agents who wanted to tell what they knew about a planned terrorist attack on lower Manhattan. John Ashcroft's Dept. of Justice intervened. David Schippers, Chicago attorney and previous Clinton impeachment investigator, called several members of Congress (including Hastert) begging them to take testimony from the FBI agents before the terrorist act occurred. The agents were later threatened with prosecution by the DOJ if they went public with what they knew. \n\nSource-9/11 Commission Report\n\nOn 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. \n\nhttp://baltimorechronicle.com/media3_oct02.html\n\nWhat I'm saying is that although I don't believe he had a hand in it, he and his administration didn't try very hard to stop it, either.\n\nBy the way, I like your screen name. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like you're searching for the "truth", only spreading hatred.
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NO!!!!  Go to www.popularmechanics.com and find the article about debunking the 9/11 myths.  And please, please, use your common sense!  Why in the WORLD would the government do something like that?  And HOW?!  It would take YEARS to come up with such an idea, and longer to go through with it.  You should be ashamed of yourself.  Quit watching Loose Change!
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Well, it is more than just a terrorists attack; it is more likely to a government covering up its own agenda by blaming a '' foreign terrorists '' to justify its own acts for the benefits of few men.\nThere are few books which we need to read before making any judgment on '' WHO '' was behind 9/11, like:\n-The Terror Timeline : Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11--and America's Response\n-The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11\n-The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions\n-The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)\n\nOr you can log on to the following links:\nhttp://www.reopen911.org\nhttp://www.erichufschmid.net\nhttp://www.hugequestions.com\n\nOr watch the video called ''Confronting the Evidence'' \n\nBefore making any judgment, check and double check your information resources and make sure that they are reliable then ask: Who is the beneficiary from 9/11 events, How he or they did it and the most important thing is '' Why ''.\n\nAlso, it is more logical to ask the people in charge of the country's security why and how they let these events to happen. Could they were be able to stop these events from happing?\n\nPresident Clinton has been investigated just for what was claimed as his Sexual adventure, but President Bush is out of any kind of investigations even that there were more than 4000 victims in these events.\n\nBlaming the others is very easy for some people; those type of people don’t have the courage to confront them selves with the truth and the facts.
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I see a lot of people giving emotional answers talking about sickos, and how it couldn't be our government because "why would they do that?" or "how could they kill their own people?"\n\nWell, for anyone who doesn't believe the government could possibly think about killing innocent people to accomplish some goal they have that seems important to them, look up Operation Northwoods - an operation that was planned by the government to carry out false terrorist attacks and blame them on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Government as a pretext for military intervention in Cuba.  This one didn't actually happen, but it was planned out, so we know that people in the government put a lot of time and effort in thinking about it - and you can now see some of the declassified documents about it online.\n\n  Now, I'm not saying the government planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks for sure, because I don't have enough evidence to judge.  But I don't think it would be impossible, and I certainly don't think there is enough evidence available to disprove the hypothesis.  One thing that seems to be almost certain to me is that the details that the government gave us about 9/11 are not true.  So the question is, why aren't they telling the truth?  What are they hiding from us that is so important to keep secret that they would risk looking like they were involved by omitting hard evidence to the contrary?\n\nAs for reasons the government might have done it, only a few people necessarily needed to know about the plan, not everyone in the goverment, and if those few people were not good judges of morality, and had some cause to think it would be best for the country, some reasons that seem ridiculous to most may seem convincing to them.  For instance, to gain control of oil, or to increase the power of the U.S. government in the middle east, or to increase the profits of the defense industry, etc, etc.\n\nAmong the reasons that the government's details don't match the truth are:\n\n - 9 of the alleged hijackers have apparently turned up alive and obviously not guilty of the alleged hijackings, living in Saudi Arabia.\n\n - The towers fell so fast that physicists have said it is impossible that explosions and fire caused by plane crashes are the only cause of the fall (pointing toward some kind of secondary explosives that must have been the cause).\n\n - There has been a study done to determine the probability of successfully connecting a cell phone call while flying that indicates the calls from the planes were probably faked.\n\n - The towers were engineered to have multiple airplane impacts each, and burn for hours at high temperatures while retaining their structutal integrity - inconveniently, the manager of many of the construction projects in the towers was killed in the attacks.\n\n  I don't know for sure what kind of involvement the government had in the attacks if any, but I do know that they have been irresponsible in satisfying themselves with the conclusions they came to shortly after the attacks and not investigating further to see what really happened, after it has become obvious that their conclusions were clearly incorrect.\n\nFor more scientific information about the cause of 9/11 visit my sources.  Some articles you read about it will be exaggerations, or will seem like "liberal jibberjabber" but don't discredit all of the information simply because one part of it is wrong, or one of the articles goes too far.\n\nRemember, just because someone is talking about a conspiracy doesn't automatically make them wrong - conspiracies are not impossible.  The real conspiracy theorists in this case are the government officials who theorized the obviously false situation about the terrorists who simply flew the planes into the buildings and caused them to fall.
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I have tossed this one back and fourth for some time. I don't think our Government is responsible for the events of 9/11, but there are some holes in the official report. Those holes lead people to believe that this Government is covering things. We may never know in our lifetime what actually happened beyond the obvious, but I am 90% certain that we did not do this to ourselves.