Conspiracy
1) The smoking gun:
The George W Bush administration conspired to either organize the attacks or,
at the very least, allowed them to take place. The evidence for this, conspiracy
supporters argue, comes in the form of a policy document - Rebuilding
America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (pdf,
size: 852KB) (external link to newamericancentury.org)
- which was written a year before 9/11. The report was authored by leading members
of the Bush administration under the name of The Project for the New American
Century (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush were contributors
to this report, according to UK Channel 4 documentary 'The 9/11 Conspiracies',
broadcast 9/9/2004). The report says that it would only be possible to fully secure
America's defenses in the world if there was a 'catastrophic' or 'catalyzing event',
'such as a Pearl Harbor'.
Michael
Moore's movie Fahrenheit 911 argues that the Bush presidency used 911 to
radically increase powers at home and to increase a climate of fear, so that it
could wage wars which will increase America's influence in other areas - American
business has much to gain from the reconstruction and oil in Iraq. In a meeting
after 11th September, Bush was keen to find a connection with Iraq so that it
could be attacked. [Loose
Change - Chapter 1]
Possible
Counter:
There is a report, and it does say these things (page 63), but does it mean that
these people therefore engineered 9/11? This is seen as a smoking gun by many
conspiracy supporters, and, even for skeptics, this is quite a strange report.
The counter must be that the George W Bush administration would be absolute monsters
to do it (which is what the conspiracy supporters
are, indeed, saying). After 9/11 the Bush administration pretty much did react
in the way set out in the report.
Iraq never had anything to do with 9/11. Would the Bush administration have been
empowered to embark on this foreign policy they did do after 911 had 911 not happened?
It seems unlikely to us.
Conspiracy
2) The collapse of the World Trade Center building 7, which was not
hit by a plane at all. Conspiracy experts say that it had to be destroyed because
it housed a secret government bunker used to coordinate the attacks. The NY emergency
unit is in this building.
WTC7
was not hit by a plane, it stood 300 yards away from the WTC 1 and 2. But it fell
neatly as if under controlled demolition on the evening of the attacks.
Official
explanation: The initial report into this says that the WTC7 building
collapsed because of fire, but admitted that this explanation was not likely.
A second report is still not finished (as at 9th March 2007), but it is expected
to confirm the initial findings. [Loose
Change - Chapter 6].
Conspiracy
3) The World Trade Center buildings were supposedly brought down by intense
heat of the engine fuel burning. However if that is true, then how come this woman
is standing by the impact hole in the World Trade Center?
Conspiracy
4) The World Trade Center buildings were brought down by a controlled demolition,
they fell at freefall speeds which is simply impossible (conspiracy experts say)
without other explosives pulling the building down. Even
if this was possible only parts of the building would have fallen, not the whole
building.
Conspiracy supporters say that a steel framed high rise building has never collapsed
before just because of fire. The collapse is consistent with a controlled demolition.
Did US agents plant explosive charges to maximize the death toll?
An
interesting conspiracy point from Loose Change 2nd Edition is the observance of
plumes of smoke coming from underneath the fall of the building [Chapter
9]. There are also claims of secondary and other explosions, and an
intriguing conversation between NYPD men suggesting that the floors had been blown
out 'one by one'. [Loose
Change - Chapters 7,
8
and 9.]
Counter:
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were designed in the 1960's
to withstand either a hit from an airplane or fire, but this attack was both together.
Leslie Robertson, Structural Engineer of the World Trade Center: "There is
no evidence there was a bomb inside." The planes were filled with fuel and
this set off a chain reaction in the buildings which caused the damage.
Conspiracy
5) The Pentagon attack. Conspiracy experts say that there is some confusion
what actually hit the Pentagon. Could the hole in the side of the building have
been made by a Boeing 757 which has a soft, crushable, nose, and in any case where
are the engines? Conspiracy experts say that the engines could not possibly have
vaporized as the temperatures required were much higher than those possible...
or could they?
The
conspiracy line is that the damage was done by a cruise missile. [Loose
Change - Chapters 3,
4
and 5].
Counter:
This is an interesting point because what actually hit the Pentagon can be answered
simply by the release of a number of other security camera footage which was apparently
collected up by FBI agents soon after the attack. Until that time the conspiracy
arguments can go on. Loose Change argues that this is evidence of a cover up.
Until that time
all we have are these intriguing pictures that don't show what hit the building.
Conspiracy
6) Fox TV shows The Lone Gunman 6 months before 9-11. In this fictional show
a government conspiracy leads to a hijack of a passenger airline in order to crash
it into the Twin Towers as a pretext for war against a dictator. The final crash
is averted in the show.
On
Conspiracy Files 911, BBC TV, the creator of the series denied any conspiracy,
it was a simple creative venture he said. The official version of 911 says that
the terrorists planned the attacks 2 years before 9/11.
