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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Almost 10 years on, 9/11 conspiracy theories abound For some Americans, the deaths of nearly 3,000 people was not the scariest thing about 9/11. It was realizing who carried out the attacks: yes, the American government. Defying countless official and non-governmental enquiries, media reporting, and often common sense, a significant number of people fervently disbelieve that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda sent 19 hijackers to execute the September 11, 2001 massacre. Instead, elements within George W. Bush's administration -- or perhaps Israeli agents -- used pre-placed explosives and missiles to blow up the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A relatively milder version is that the US government didn't actually blow up its citizens, but knew full well the attacks were coming, then did nothing to stop them. In both cases, the reasoning is that Bush's team sought to justify the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a domestic clampdown on civil liberties. Wild as they might sound, the conspiracy theorists are not just some tiny fringe. A 2006 Scripps Howard poll found 36 percent of Americans believed in some form of government 9/11 conspiracy. Other polls have found widespread support not only in the Arab world, but also in France, where a book called "Horrifying Fraud" sold 200,000 copies shortly after 9/11. Advertisement Even a decade later, the conspiracy movement is alive and kicking in the United States. Groups such as Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, or Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, see themselves as serious researchers exposing perhaps the biggest cover-up in US history. In fact the real loonies, says David Ray Griffin, author of "The New Pearl Harbor" and "Cognitive Infiltration," are those who believe the government version about the World Trade Center and Pentagon. "If we define miracles as a violation of scientific principles, in particular the principles of physics and chemistry, there are about a dozen miracles in the official story," he told KPFA, a liberal radio station in California. A summary of the leading theories is contained in "Loose Change," a homemade documentary viewed nearly 125 million times on Google and some 30 million worldwide on YouTube, according to director Dylan Avery. Splicing news footage and interviews, all set to a catchy music beat, "Loose Change" collates and expands on all the urban legends about 9/11. For example: -- The Twin Towers could not have collapsed from airplane impact alone. -- The astonishingly rapid collapse of World Trade Center tower 7, despite not being hit by a plane, bore the hallmarks of professional demolition. -- Wall Street trading on stocks directly affected by the disaster showed some people knew in advance about what was coming. -- A US missile, not American Airlines Flight 77, smashed into the Pentagon. -- United Airlines Flight 93 did not crash in a Pennsylvania field, but vanished, perhaps after being shot down by a fighter jet. The United States has long been fertile ground for conspiracy theories. In this parallel world, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by anyone ranging from the CIA to Cuban exiles. The Moon landing pictures were taken in a studio, while the US government is covering up evidence of UFOs. And American GIs are still held in bamboo cages in Vietnam. The most recent addition is the "birther" movement, which claims Barack Obama was not born on US soil -- and therefore is an illegitimate president. The conspiracy theorists remain a minority and face the scorn of the counter-conspiracy movement on websites like www.debunking911.com and www.screwloosechange.blogspot.com, which claims to prove wrong almost every statement made during the film. But Kathy Olmsted, who teaches history at University of California Davis, said extreme mistrust of government is understandable. After all, the Bush administration spent huge energy promoting its own false conspiracy theories about Saddam Hussein, claiming that the Iraqi leader possessed weapons of mass destruction and insinuating that he was linked to 9/11. "The Bush administration did certainly twist the truth, if not outright lie during the Iraq war," Olmsted said. "So people say, 'how do we know the truth about 9/11'?" Conspiracy theories may also aid people still struggling to comprehend the shock of what happened ten years ago. "It was difficult for people to believe that 19 men armed with box cutters could cause such damage and kill so many people," said Professor Rich Hanley, who lectures on the media and popular culture at Quinnipiac University. "It plays to how shocking this was to the American psyche."
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#5. To: Ada (#0)
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...israel, because JFK was committed to non-proliferation of nuke weapons, and israel thought nukes would ensure the "never again" The program took another step forward with the creation of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) in 1952. Its chairman, Ernst David Bergmann, had long advocated an Israeli bomb as the best way to ensure "that we shall never again be led as lambs to the slaughter." Nuclear Weapons israel then we run up against the problem of ensuring a "never again" when it never happened in the first place. so the holyhoax and israel's nukes and the never again are all part of the same tapestry of lies and atrocities.
...israel, because JFK was committed to non-proliferation of nuke weapons, and israel thought nukes would ensure the "never again" I'm sure that was one of the contributing reasons, but not the primary one. The primary reason JFK was assassinated was because he had started issuing real US dollar bills again with no debt attached to them. The Fed knew once they caught on they were threw. They had him killed and the before LBJ even got back to DC from Dallas that day he signed an executive order ending the issuing of US dollar bills.
so was the Fed composed of zionists when JFK was killed? the JFK assassination was the formal change-of-cmmand ceremony, wasnt it? JFK was the last president who attempted to defy israel, and look what happened to him... the israelis were humiliated by JFK's predecessor, eisenhower, and they did something about it. after the change-of-command ceremony, what happened? the USS liberty incident, and JFK's successor covered it up.
#11. To: lead.and.lag (#9)
Yes, it was since it started in 1913. The Federal Reserve was not the first central bank in the USA owned by them, it is just the latest. I don't deny JFK wanting to stop Israel from building a nuclear bomb was a reason for him being killed, I just don't think it was the number one reason.
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