9/11...who was the terrorist?

On, September 11th 2001, 3,017 people were killed (including hijackers and 24 missing-presumed dead) in one of the largest acts of terror in history.

But who did it?

Blame quickly fell on al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation which has a primary aim of harming the USA for their own reasons.

I'm going have a look at the conspiracy theory of the event, specifically the evidence that heavily suggests the US government not only knew about the plots, and let them happen - or even actively plotted the attacks for their own gains.

To keep it simple, I am going to bullet point the main inconsistencies of what happened that day, you can draw your own conclusions and say it is all coincidence and circumstancial...but such probabilities can really only go so far.

Anyways, away we go!

• Prior to the attacks, both the World Trade Center towers were insured for several hundred million dollars.
• On the day of the attacks, Condoleezza Rice (the then national security advisor) cancelled all her appointments in the towers - several senators also cancelled their appointments in the towers.
• The part of the US Air Force concerned with counter terrorism (including shooting down passenger jets in the event of hijacking) was stood down a few days before the attacks took place.
• When the planes impacted on the tower, the fireball that formed thereafter was likened to the heat inside the sun - logic would say then that everything such as people, belongings in the plane would be vaporised by such intense heat, and anything particularly hard destroyed when the towers collapsed. However, the terrorist's passports were found, lightly singed, after the towers collapsed. Seriously, what are the chances of a number of passports surviving a furnace of a few thousand degrees and then being found among the rubble?
• The towers were designed structurally to be able to withstand the intense heat in the event of a fireball for whatever reason, yet they still collapsed. Though this theory has been disproved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
• A small skyscraper near the towers was also demolished on the same day, in comparison its controlled collapse looked remarkably similar to the collapse of the other towers.
• The unidentified plane sighted circling the area at the time of the attacks has never been traced, even though it could have been vital to the invertigation.
• No footage of the plane impacting on the Pentagon has ever been released, several experts have noted the damage to the building was not consistent with impact by a passenger airliner. Furthermore, eye witness reports state that they thought the plane was a missile.
• The responsibility for these attacks was completely and utterly denied by Osama Bin Laden and the rest of al-Qaeda. This is unprecedented.

This isn't all the dodegy stuff linked to the attack, but I really think the US government must have had some part of it. Why else ham string themselves with concern to the Air Force and all politicians conveniently cancel their appointments there? It's too suspicious I think.

Why, though? Why on earth would a government allow an attack to happen?

The theory is that they simply lacked the resources/knowledge to stop the attacks. As in perhaps they only knew a small chunk of the plot - so took the steps they could without announcing it publicly and perhaps putting more lives at risk due to wide spread panic and the attacks occurring at different areas instead. Makes sense, in the wider scheme of things, so save those you can without alerting the terrorists to your knowledge.

The other theory, the much darker one, is that the US government actively plotted the attacks for an excuse to after al-Qaeda. Think about it, it not only meant they had the excuse to attack an enemy (with international support), but it also meant they could sweeten the deal with things such as the building insurance and the creation of jobs and increased trade due to the increased requirement of military equipment for the war.

Take another look at the bullet points I listed, doesn't quite add up, does it? It's pretty clear to me the US government had some big part in it, but by how much we may never know...