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September 11 Attacks

The September 11 attacks refer to terrorist attacks made against the US on September 11, 2001. Four commercial jets were hijacked, crashing them against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania.

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Will airplanes ever become safe again after the terrorist attack?

Yes it is safe - you are more likely to have an accident from simple human error than from a terror attack - consider how many successful terror attcks have occued since 9-11 compared to accidents caused by human or mechanical failure - there is always a risk in everything we do in life and flying is no exception - my biggest concern with flying is miscommunication twixt air traffic controllers and pilots a much bigger concern than terror. The foregoing is correct...even considering the lives lost on 911, air travel is still, by far, the safest way to travel. As for the concerns expressed regarding communication between pilots and ATC, having flown commercially for some 30+ years, I can tell you that, while such problems do occasionally occur, in my experience they are quite rare.

Why do you think the terrorist chose the world trade center and pentagon?

They were striking at symbols of American business, government, military power. It is thought that the plane that went down in Pennsylvania when the passengers resisted the hijackers was intended to strike the White House or Congress
On 9/11, terrorists from the group Al Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in airplanes. They did so to defeat America's financial and defense systems. The World Trade center was a huge factor in our country's monetary systems, and so the terrorists crashed airplanes into it in hopes of driving us into yet another period of depression. Also, the Pentagon was a main target because of its importance in the USA.'s armed forces. It is the main hub of the country's defense and military personel. Destroying it would cause us to become vulnerable against attack or war.
Middle eastern countries weren't happy that the republicans were taking their oil so they took down the twin towers. Also the republicans were aware of it. It obvious since they weren't even near New York or the White House and where ever the planes were suppose to land.

Why did the Twin Towers fall like a demolition?

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As to the question of why the Twin Towers fell "like a demolition?" is first that they only fell similar, but not the exact same. The similarity is because controlled demolition of buildings is based on the laws of physics wherein gravity forces objects to the ground, and once the vertically stacked floors are set in motion, momentum keeps them going (Newton's 1st law of inertia - paraphrased as 'a body in motion tends to stay in motion'). When key supports of a building are blasted, and removed simultaneously, the weight of each floor collapses on the floor below.

In past centuries, people were used to seeing building "fall" sideways in earthquakes, or by demolition equipment knocking them down until the weak structures fell over. The art of blasting several key supports, and causing a tall building to implode on itself is quite a sight to see, and most people have only witnessed this kind of phenomenon while watching a controlled demolition (live or on video). However, this is not the only way for this to occur. Think of how many times experts or amateurs have witnessed Airplanes flying at high speeds directly into a tall building, and cutting through a cross-section. Never! So how is it that so many arm-chair experts are making the comparison? The huge commercial jet basically does the same thing that controlled demolition does, only slightly slower.

When each plane entered their respective Towers at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, the sheer momentum of the plane's body and wings cut through a considerable amount of support in that area, and weakened the structure at those floors. Once on the interior, an explosion from the flames igniting the fuel (as seen when the second plane hit the South Tower), caused a tremendous blast that further damaged the interior structure like a bomb going off. The following 56 to 102 minutes of jet fuel spreading and burning all flammable objects on the several floors where the planes entered, including the burning of the plane itself, and all of its contents, intensified the heat. With all of these things burning rapidly in a relatively enclosed environment caused enough intense heat to weaken the integrity of the few remaining supports in key areas on those floors. Once a single floor collapsed, the weight of every floor above it slammed down onto the next floor below, which was far too much weight, and impact force for those supports to handle, thus creating a chain reaction floor by floor, gaining mass, speed, and momentum with every floor.

As an example, watch a Martial Art expert smash through 10 or more solid slabs of concrete in a stack. Each slab is separated by about a 1 inch spacer. The only way that a human hand of flesh and bone is going through the concrete is with a rapid acceleration of applied force. If the cement were stacked directly one on the other, they might not break more than three or four. However, with each slab breaking individually, and crashing down upon the next slab, ten or more slabs can fairly easily be broken. All you have to do is get the first one started.

The impact of the planes crashing (1), combined with the initial explosion of flame to fuel (2), followed by intense heat of jet fuel, and all the materials in the offices burning rapidly (3) caused enough high temperature, like a blow torch (more-so than under normal circumstances of a controlled burn), resulting in the remaining supports of one or two floors giving way. Take a close look at the South Tower falling first. The structure has been weakened at one corner more than the others, and the top of the building tips in at a considerable angle before it collapses the floors beneath.

Because al-quida hijacted planes that crashed into it.

theories of speculation, and guesswork based on unanswered questions:

The official story is that heat caused by burning plastics and jet fuel weakened the floor supports, part of the base support structure of the building, causing them to fall in a pancake like (domino) effect into each other.

Please note however that JTP8+ (Jet Fuel) only burns at 800F in open air, Plastic burns at slightly less: each of these less than 1/2 of the temperature needed to 'heat stress' the steel used in the WTC construction: heat stress is 1/2 the temperature of the steel.

The un-official story(s) point to large discrepancies, and inaccuracies in this official report coming to the conclusion that it "must have been an inside job" and or "controlled demolition" that caused the towers to fail.

Caveat: Information contained in this answer is from personal and detailed research into both (or all) claims; and allows for the reader to make up their own mind - or do their own research into the question.

What is currently located at Ground Zero where the Twin Towers used to be?

Currently, Ground Zero is still a great big gaping hole in the ground. But the new tower, "Freedom Tower," is in the early stages of construction, and is due to be completed in 2013. See the first Related Link below for the official website, and the second for a Ground Zero webcam.

How did the September 11 attacks start?

With an idea, planning, training and the coordinated hijacking of four commercial airliners by 4 terrorists.

Was September 11th on a Jewish holiday?

No, it was a regular day on the Jewish calendar (23 Elul 5761). Since it was perpetrated by Islamist Terrorists, it makes sense that it should have no correlation with any Jewish date.

How did the Gulf War lead to the September 11th attacks?

There is yet to be published any "direct links" of the 2001 attack and the 1991 Desert Storm operation in Southwest Asia.

The US government should curtail civil liberties to prevent terrorist attacks?

No! They're protecting & helping us.

The danger in suspending civil liberties after a "terrorist attack" is that the attack could be a false flag operation. The Nazis for example, rose to power after setting fire to the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933 and then blaming it on communists. Former Gestapo member, Hans Gisevius confessed to this effect in 1946.

Where were the planes going on 9.11?

Their destinations were the West Coast so that the planes had a lot of fuel and the explosions would be bigger when they crashed.

What happened to george tenet after 911?

It sounds like he did what the cia has always done "looked after its own misterious interests".

Could the terrorist attack in New york 2001 been prevented?

Yes, it is very likely that the planes crashing into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon could have been prevented.

Was September 11 a scam?

Yes, as you can see from the date it was clearly an April Fool's joke, folling millions into hating Al Quida and forcing that monkey called George Bush to wage war against innocent Iraqis.

Congratulations, it seems you and me are the only ones to see through this illussion.

A visit to ground zero should dispell the above myth.

Was the steel from the Twin Towers shipped to Japan?

yes its was so it could be melted down and recycled. it was shipped out very quickly and many people believe it was so it couldn't be tested and examined.

How was George Bush associated with the Twin Tower attack?

The notion that "He helped plan it" is false.

He was the President of the US when that event happened, nothing more and nothing less.

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Conspiracy theories say that the American Government did the attacks on themselves to harbour fear in America as an effective way to rule America.

Answer (psc9300)George Bush was responsible for the 9-11 tragedy because he made this so that he will have enough reason to attack Iraq-----so that he can get their oil. Simple.

AMEN BROTHER!!!

Like buying it wouldn't have been cheaper. Yeah, I really think he was stupid enough to destroy his name in history, make the animals in the Middle East look successful, and kill 3,000 innocents. Suuure he did. Pay no attention to Bin Ladin's confession!

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By "associated" I assume that you mean to ask, how did he have a part in the Twin Tower attack? I may be wrong in my assumption.

Because George W Bush lied to the U.S. legislature and the American people in his 2003 State of Union address where he claimed that Iraq had ties to terrorism and that Iraq had tried to purchase Yellow-Cake Uranium from a Nigerian and that he used this as reason to invade Iraq, it is not hard to believe conspiracy theories that allege he was somehow behind the attacks on the WTC complex. The Iraq invasion has killed over 400 US Soldiers and it was based on his lies. So, it's not out of the realm of possibility that he could kill 300 civilians, too.

Historically, national leaders have killed many of their citizens (Stalin, Hitler are recent examples, but there are dozens of examples). Even the US government has exposed its citizens to disease and radiation for the sake of the it's defense. Game Theory analysis done during the cold war supported the idea that the US government should protect it's weapons over it's citizens!

I believe, as do many Americans, that the Bush-Cheney administration at a minimum, allowed the terrorist attacks to occur in order to have a "slam-dunk" case for war in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as to have reason to increase presidential power and validate the Bush Doctrine which was the extension of the Carter Doctrine developed by Z. Brezinski, in 1979.

Also, I believe that it's highly likely that the WTC towers were demolished in a controlled demolition. Tower #7 Clearly explodes and is demolished consistent with a controlled demolition. It collapses in free fall speed as did WTC 1 and 2, but it did not have the severe damage from plane crashes. The speed at which the towers collapse, the extremely hot temperatures on the site (3-400 degrees, where jet fuel would burn only at 4-700 degrees), the pulverization of concrete and steel, the lateral ejection of tons of steel outward into other buildings, the squib explosions which precede the collapsing building from above, the pyroclastic smoke cloud, the dozens of reports of explosions before and after the plane crashes, and the violation of the laws of conservation of momentum all are clear and convincing evidence of explosive materials set up in the buildings and detonated.

There does not have to be a connection between the Bush Administration allowing terrorist attacks to occur and the WTC buildings being wired to explode. For example, the owners of the buildings might have paid heed to the 56 documented warnings that there were going to be terrorist attacks, probably against the WTC, and then wired the buildings with explosives to be detonated when that attack occurred. The owner of the WTC buildings did receive about 7 billion dollars of insurance reimbursement after the attacks, much more than he paid for the buildings in July of 2001.

There will probably always remain unanswered questions about the events of 9/11/2001 as well as 7/7/7 in London, and 3/11/3 (911 days after 9/11).

As long as the Obama administration allows the Bush administration to go free after admitting war crimes (waterboarding) and lying to the legislatures about Iraq and WMDs, and as long as the official history makers are also the lapdogs of the government, then no one will ever know. However, just as we look back at the scandals in Rome and Greece, albeit 1000 years later, the truth does come out and in hindsight appears so obvious. Governments are capable of any sort of atrocity and the US government, our government, is no exception. It can be argued, that the US government has the most power, means, and motive to commit atrocities.

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Whether George Bush lied or simply passed on, in good faith, things he had been told were true, may never be known. It is absolutely clear that Saddam was trying, on an almost daily basis, to shoot down American aircraft, in and of itself an act of war, and more than sufficient in and of itself to justify what was done. It is a mark against the American people that any more justification than this had to be made.

While the USG has from time to time allowed some of its civilians to be put at risk, it seems clear that this was done without notifying the highest levels of government, the very levels now being said to have cost the lives of 3,000 people, under circumstances that might well have killed tens of thousands. This does not have the ring of truth in it.

There is not the slightest shred of evidence of a controlled demolition at any of the buildings. No sign of the months of work, wall demolition (to get at the skeleton), no sign of the rapid, very loud, and rhythmic explosions it would take. The only explosion-types sounds are without pattern, and are consistent with things in the building cooking off (transformers, etc). The people claiming the explosions were before the impact, were in no position to know, being in the basement! Some guy claims he has samples of "nanothermate" but there is no chain of evidence leading back to the Towers debris.

Building 7 was hit, not by aircraft, but by many tons of concrete falling hundreds of feet, tearing out many floors of the building, and starting large fires spewing smoke out of almost the entire south side. Footage taken proves it did not take *less* than 14.27 seconds to collapse, and undoubtedly more. It did *not* explode, or it was done by silent explosives that make no flash! The footage was taken from a vantage point from which not all of the collapse could be seen. I'd estimate maybe 14 seconds plus about 4 more. The Towers were seismically monitored to take more than 15 seconds to collapse. Probably around 20 seconds as the seismic record would begin with the first debris striking the ground, about 9 seconds after collapse had begun. This is, in both the case of the Towers and WTC 7, much longer than "free fall" speed. And while we are at it, let us dispose of the foolish notion that any of the buildings "fell in their own footprint". The Towers spewed debris in all direction, as could be clearly seen. 7 tipped as it fell, falling well out of its footprint. The temperature is the temperature. A building full of jet fuel and plastic and no telling what else, is likely to burn quite hot. Remember, the fire alone did not bring the towers or 7 down. It was fire and massive impact, doing undetermined levels of damage to the skeletons of all three buildings. As far as the pulverization of "concrete and steel". I saw no signs of pulverized steel. Bent, yes. And if you drop well over a hundred 4" slabs of concrete mixed with drywall, more than 1000 feet, I guarantee you will have plenty of concrete and drywall dust. There will be plenty of debris thrown in all directions. There were no squib explosions, unless someone has invented an explosive that doesn't make a "boom" sound. What was seen was clearly and obviously debris being pushed out by the collapsing floors. Picture stepping on a balloon full of talcum powder, it shoots out quite well, doesn't it? There was no "pyroclastic cloud", as there is no such thing except in the case of volcanoes, none of which are known to exist in midtown Manhatten. Pyroclastic clouds are produced by nothing except volcanoes, it is part of the definition. Granted that definition does have a tendency to get edited before it gets posted on 911 Truthducker sites! And there are no known violations of any of the laws of physics involved whatsoever. Also by definition.

The government knew that AQ wanted to do terrorist attacks, and that one possible attack would be to hijack a plane and use it as a missile. But this is not actionable evidence... what do you do, shut down all flight forever? The specifics needed to shut down the operation simply did not fall into our hands. The failure of George Bush to be psychic, especially since no one actually is psychic, does not mean he "let it happen". There is no evidence whatsoever of explosive planting, and if you look up the numbers (they're on the Net) losing the buildings was far from a pot of gold at the end of anyone's rainbow. They have to pay for rebuilding a suitable replacement out of that money.

Some may consider waterboarding a terrorist to be a crime. However, it is only done, to my knowledge, to those who don't talk without it. In other words, it only gets done to volunteers. If waterboarding a thousand terrorist scum means one American soldier comes back safe and alive, hand me the hose.

Governments are capable of atrocities. So is Al Queda. This one was theirs, by all the real evidence.

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How many people died in the Twin Towers?

There were a total of 2,996 deaths during the September 11th attacks. This includes those in the towers, on the ground and in the planes during the crashes.