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It has been theorized that what happened on September 11, 2001, the destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, was actually planned by the government. I've been doing research both for and against the idea, so I know quite a bit about the happenings. As this thread progresses, I'll throw in interesting facts for you to digest.

First fact: The Spanish-American War was started when the Spaniards attacked and sank an American ship, resulting in the death of many men on the ship, and many men during the war. It was later discovered that the attack was actually by Americans, not Spaniards. In other words, the American government decided to destroy one of their own ships and murder their own people, to start a war with Spain. So, if 9/11 was government-planned, it wouldn't have been the first time it actually happened.

Thoughts?

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If you have any doubts in the facts I bring up, just say so, and I'll dredge up all the sources I can manage.

If the government did do it, it would certainly not be the first time. However I highly doubt that they did. Any hand they had in it would be more akin to Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor.

Amendment to first post, so you all know.

Well now we certainly do have some fascinating new guild members blaugh

Although I pretty much do agree with everything that has been said.

Just for the actual sake of debate and an interesting discussion why don't we also focus on some of the other rumors revolving around 9/11?
I'm rather sure that the majority would belive that it was not the governments fault, atleast not for the twin towers.

rofl ninja

Whether or not the government is fully behind it is still an uncertainty here, it seems, but I myself am without any doubt that there was foreknowledge that both the Pentagon and the Twin Towers would be hit by planes. Here's some more facts:

Fact Two: The Pentagon had been practicing drills just a little while previous to 9/11, specifically concerning their response time and effectiveness if a plane were to crash into it. I may be exaggerating this next bit, but I'm fairly certain that the Pentagon was actually doing the drills in the event of a plane crashing into the same wall that was crashed into.

Fact Three: The owner of the Twin Towers (forgive me, his name seems to have escaped me at the moment) made an 800 million dollar insurance policy, specifically in the case of a terrorist attack by airplane. The Twin Towers cost about 300 million to make, and so the crash essentially just handed him about 500 million dollars. (I don't know about you guys, but the word 'bribery' comes to mind.)

Fact Four: A 'put option' is essentially a stock in a company, but different, in that it's basically betting that the company's stock will drop in value. So, if you made a put option in a business, you are saying that somehow that company's stock will drop in value, and you gain money from this value drop. Put options in American Airlines rocketed only a few days previous to 9/11.

Keep in mind, there are still far more facts to go, and these are only the three off the top of my head concerning foreknowledge of the attacks.

I'm somewhat surprised that this thread didn't bring up a lot of responses. But, then again, maybe most people don't really have strong opinions on it, as it doesn't involve them. When you think about it, we are all involved in it, as it could result in many catastrophic things.

Ah, well, not up to me if no one wants to debate about a potentially corrupt and morally stripped government.

Here's a different question, though: why do you think the government would be so willing to kill its own people in order to start more killing? I've actually discovered proof for another plan that the Secretary of Defense put forth, which was made to sabotage one of our own military bases and frame some other country or group.

A few good reasons

Money and power are most likely true for this case and also.
In certain situations this creates fear and since fear has become a factor the people start to rely more on the government and they believe in their country etc etc.

Really dealing with all the rumors and themes going on i pretty much think thats just for money or as others say to impress daddy.
well in america anyways

I agree, I haven't studied this enough to be able to truly wiegh in on the debate, however from what I've seen it would seem that while it may not have been the hand of our government behind the attack, it was certainly spurred one by certain world powers (the corporations and the bilderberg group, as Rookherst said).