9/11 conspiracy?

Question

Now I don't want to offend anyone, I know there are some very strong opinions about what occured on 9/11 and I am in no way belittleing our soldiers, or the brave men who rescued as many as possible from the wreckage. I have heard a few different scenarioes of what could have happened on 9/11, and I've read about multi-billion dollar insurance policies covering terrorsim specifically, taken out on some of the buildings only weeks before the destruction. I would like to know how many of you have batted at the idea that this terrible event was some sort of government conspiracy. If you think it is possible, let me know what leads you to believe this. If you are adamant that we truly were terrorized that day, please tell me why.

Answer 1

9/11 was not a gov't conspiracy.

Here are a few explanations of points typically raised by the conspiracy theorists

INSURANCE POLICY.......................
1) Yes, Silverstein did have an insurance policy to cover economic loss that he would incur if the towers collapsed.

2) Generally, insurance companies only insure for economic loss, they do not issue policies that will allow you to profit by insurance.

Examples-
You can't insure a $100K. house for a million dollars. They won’t permit it. You CAN insure your husband to protect against economic loss if you lose him, the bread winner. However, you CANNOT insure a child for a lot of money because you wouldn't lose a lot if he died.

3) Thus, the amount of insurance he could get would be only an amount which would equal his real losses such that he would not make a profit. This is a fundamental rule of insurance.

4) Moreover, any fraud (like it was an "inside job") would be the very, very first thing an insurance company would look for. They are experts at "claims investigation." I assure you, if there were the slightest evidence that 9-11 was an inside job, the insurance would be in court with such evidence to resist the claim. They don't want to pay out a billion dollars. Get real. If you thought he was ripping them off, so could the insurance companies. Again, they don't have to pay if they can prove "insurance fraud."

NORAD...................................
NORAD wasn't even called to intercept the 2 planes that hit the twin towers because the controllers didn't understand where the hijacked planes were or what was going on.

The planes were really hard to track because the hijackers turned off the transponders. It's that simple.

NORAD was called to try to get the plane that hit the Pentagon, but they called NORAD too late. There's really nothing mysterious about it.

MOTIVE....................................
This is where the conspiracy theories really fall apart. There isn't any coherent reason WHY anyone in our gov't would do such a horrendous thing as 9/11. In other words, who specifically did it? for how much money? paid when?

NO EVIDENCE FOR EXPLOSIONS..........

1) Reports of explosions being heard are exaggerated.

I quote: “NIST reviewed all of the interviews conducted by the FDNY of firefighters (500 interviews) and in addition conducted its own set of interviews with emergency responders and building occupants. Taken as a whole, the interviews did not support the contention that explosives played a role in the collapse of the WTC Towers.”

From Section F of http://www.911proof.com/NIST.pdf

2) Puffs of air are seen all the time in demolitions and therefore they mean nothing.

Structural Engineer Jon Magnussen says it is fairly common phenomenon in building collapses. “You could actually have a collapse starting at the top of the building, and the air could come out of the bottom, going down the elevator shafts. It finds the path of least resistance.” (Pop Mechanics, “Debunking” p.45)

3) There was no seismic evidence of explosions before the collapse

Columbia University has permanent seismographic recorders that were running on 9/11 which clearly show no explosives preceding the collapse of Towers 1 & 2, or of WTC7 . See page 2 of
http://www.implosionworld.com/Article-WTC%20STUDY%208-06%20w%20clarif%20as%20of%209-8-06%20.pdf

4) Engineers have proved that the collapse resulted from the impact & the fire. Therefore, there is zero need to invoke bombs. See NIST’s explanation at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
(Click on “Impact to collapse” )
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You asked us to tell you why. I would need about 30 more pages to provide all the evidence against the conspiracy theory. It's all just as convincing as what you see above.

Answer 2

"I've read about multi-billion dollar insurance policies covering terrorism specifically, taken out on some of the buildings only weeks before the destruction." You have read half-truths and out right lies.

Here is a discussion on the insurance coverage on the towers: http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc_insurance.html You will note that the attack in 1993 was covered by insurance as well.

Another insurance charge that has been made is that Silverstein made huge profits from the insurance payouts. Again, simply not the case. In the end he is looking at a $1.7 Billion dollar loss.

Read this site: http://www.911myths.com/ Follow the links to external sites if you do not believe the conclusions they made and make your own.

I am very convinced there is a significant crowd that would cry conspiracy if the government issued a statement that the sky was blue and would fight this determination tooth and nail simply because the government made the statement.

Answer 3

Seriously I respect all of you views, but as a native New Yorker, who was personally effected by 9/11..... Its very simple, A bunch of TERRORIST FLEW TWO PLANES INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER and took innocent lives. This is why they are called conspiracy theories, which to me is just another word for imagination.

Answer 4

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
-- David Rockefeller

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be guarded by a bodyguard of lies.
-- Winston Churchill

To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists.
-- Attorney General John Ashcroft
defending his antiterror measures before the Senate Judiciary Committee
(He should be summarily released and sent to 1938 Germany)

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-- James Madison
while a United States Congressman

The 9/11 Commission Report timeline of events in the FAA and NORAD contradicts the timeline released by NORAD shortly after the event. The Washington Post reported in its August 3, 2006 edition that

"For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances... Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial account of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public... Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted".

Since the 9/11 Commission places the primary blame on communication failures within the FAA, conspiracy theorist Prof. David Ray Griffin has questioned why the US military would lie to cover up the mistakes made by that agency

Answer 5

The fact to this day remains that there isn't a shred of evidence to back up the official account-- in fact there is huge evidence of there having been a cover up and the suppressing of information which would bring doubt onto the official myth.

it is not hard to see how mass brainwashing methods -a lot of them simple- e.g repetition -- have been employed to brainwash the unquestioning mass of the sheeple to buy into their account.

there is also an official lie factory e.g NIST, "Popular Mechanics ", the Corporate media in general which has been working to disseminate excuses and throw up a continuing smokescreen or,as in the Penn and Teller case, resort to obvious (sometimes plainly scurrilous and even abusive) ad hominen attacks on those who've done as little as publically question the official lie.

it simply serves to show the pivotal and ongoing role of the media in this conspiracy and how weak the official defenders case actually is when confronted - they appear to getting increasingly desperate in fact.

Answer 6

I have a few friends that wholeheartedly believe that it was US that attacked on 9/11. Bush himself being the ringleader. I still love these friends dearly, I just choose my words VERY carefully around them, lol....

Its simple really, we were attacked on 9/11 by a group of jihadists that were mainly from Saudi Arabia, who hate the United States and everything we stand for. (Which lends no explanation whatsoever as to why we invaded Iraq nor why we are still there:)

Did the US government *KNOW* that this specific act was going to take place? No....they didn't. What they did know was that *SOMETHING* was going to happen....who? what? when? where? how?

The unexplainable - unaswerable questions that sadly, will most likely never be answered....

Answer 7

There are definitely alot of conspiracy theories out there.
Specific documentary: Loose Change.

I found myself getting sucked into it.
I believe that the government definitely has the power to stage a terrorist attack.
It benefited the government in alot of ways. It allowed them to pull a bag over our heads while they planned the current Iraq war and other engagements in the Middle East.

However, I'm not sold that they were completely responsible.
In the least, someone knew it was about to happen and let it happen anyways.

Answer 8

That's a myth that's been going around about the insurance. Probably started by a conspiracy nut.

Answer 9

I think the govt knew something was going to happen but didnt stop it because the attack opened up the "war on terror" which pretty much gives the govt the ability to do whatever it wants in defiance of national and international laws. I doubt congress would support spending $200 billion we dont have on healthcare, but for a war on terror, no problem.

Answer 10

9/11 was a Zionist conspiracy.
it was a Mossad job , they were even caught on the day.

do a web search on " five dancing Israelis" "Odigo" " Zinn moving company" etc.