Being as its close to the 10th year anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11, their are documentary's about the events on all the time.

Ive started reading up on conspiracy theories mentioned, and some seem interesting if not possible. I am an avid follower of conspiracy theories as i do think most have a backbone and this is one of the most famous.

Their are claims, that the US knew prior to 9/11 occurring that it was going to happen, that planes we're going to be driven into the World Trace Centre yet allowed it too happen. The reasons we're apparently for, if they had stopped them from carrying out this attack, they may have made a new target, like Al-Qaeda have the past 20 years for their failed attempts.

In 1994 there we're 3 failed attempts at crashing planes into buildings where 1 crashed into the garden of the White House. In 1995, there was a plot made to blow up 11 airliners flying to America. In April 2001, a simulated war game by NORAD was going to be created where an aircraft had been hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, the simulation was eventually dismissed for being to un-realistic. In July 2001, anti-aircraft missiles we're installed into G8 in Genoa, after reports that Bush and other world leaders where targets of terrorist attacks. Then to top it all off, in the early morning of September 11, NRO (US Reconnaissance Satellites) simulated a crash of an aircraft crashing into their building.

This was a big reason to why people question the situation. Where the US just looking for an excuse to invade Iraq? yet the thing which caught me most was a TV show on it, where it showed a general at the time of 9/11 has said that "unfortunately, we need another 9/11 to happen to motivate another attack".

Here is also intelligence readings and indication of an attack before it happened.

March 2001 - Italian intelligence warns of an al Qaeda plot in the United States involving a massive strike involving aircraft, based on their wiretap of al Qaeda cell in Milan.
July 2001 - Jordanian intelligence told US officials that al-Qaeda was planning an attack on American soil, and Egyptian intelligence warned the CIA that 20 al Qaeda Jihadists were in the United States, and that four of them were receiving flight training.
August 2001 - The Israeli Mossad gives the CIA a list of 19 terrorists living in the US and say that they appear to be planning to carry out an attack in the near future.
August 2001 - The United Kingdom is warned three times of an imminent al Qaeda attack in the United States, the third specifying multiple airplane hijackings. According to the Sunday Herald, the report is passed on to President Bush a short time later.
September 2001 - Egyptian intelligence warns American officials that al Qaeda is in the advanced stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, probably within the US.


So, what do you think, just coincidence? Or the US allowed the attack to prompt an invasion attack on Iraq?

Edited by moderator 12 September 2011 06:11:13(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Well with all the warnings they received.. why/how did they not do something? Putting an officer on every plane wouldnt have been a hard thing and may have saved precious lives. Especially when they are getting reports an attack is imminent.

That's true. Im not saying i agree with it, not 100%. But it does seem weird. American toops where on standby for an attack overseas.
Did they let it happen? Im still undecided. There are both arguments for it yes and no.

It's like Titanic, they didnt purposely drive into an ice berg, but they also didnt take much caution after all of the warnings that there was ice out there. Sometimes you have to press on despite the warnings, and sometimes bad things happen when you do.

As someone who studied architecture, I can tell you that the collapse of the WTC was not especially strange. The steel structure heated, expanded, bent, eventually buckling and the weight of the floors above that point caused the building to collapse at a certain point, which then caused the floor below to collapse, and so on and so on. Building 7 is unusual, but again, not as suspicious as people assume.

Steel expands and bends under sufficient heat, and because steel structures are held together by bolts and welds, those are the points of failure. If one supporting column's bolts shear, and there's not enough redundancy, the structure is going to fail.

As a side-note, conspiracy theorists like to point to things like the presence of chemicals used in detonation explosives, but those chemicals are probably present in paper filing trays and absurdly mundane objects like that - chemicals are in everything manufactured. And how the fuck do you fill a building full of demolition explosives (of which a lot are required for a safe controlled demolition) and nobody who works there notices? Hide it in the structure of the building? That would be beyond absurd.

Edited by user 08 September 2011 08:25:46(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

True, but so is the fact I share a birthday with my favourite actor.

Yeah, and the sprinkler system in the building failed, causing a huge heat build-up from continuous fires which fire-fighters were not able to put out, leading to failure of supporting members, and eventually structural collapse. What hit the building is irrelevant, except insomuch as the building ended up on fire.

That's exactly how I feel. I'm pretty tired of hearing about it over and over, same stuff.

I believe in that conspiracy. After that attack, The U.S. attacked Iraq accusing them of having "Weapons of Mass Destruction". I mean come on. They claimed that they lost the planes. Anyways. Now that we have attacked Iraq and our troops are still there, we are also receiving their rich mineral oil. I live here in America and it is a greedy country.

not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and afganistani's who are still paying the price today.