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If you believe al-Qaeda (al-CIA-da) was responsible for 9/11, you have not looked at the facts or are otherwise a delusional nutjob.

Governments throughout history have conducted false flag operations

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag)... i.e. fabricating or staging attacks on themselves or their own populations in order to blame them on a foreign enemy and then use that as an excuse to achieve their goals.

In 1933, Hitler burned down his own Reichstag (parliament building), blamed it on communist insurgents, and used this as an excuse to suspend all civil liberties and essentially come to power as a dictator. In 1939 the Nazis staged an attack on their own radio station and dumped dead prisoners on the scene dressed in Polish uniforms to blame the attacks on Polish insurgents. They used this to justify the invasion of Poland which started World War II.

The U.S. has also been involved in false flag terrorism. The CIA was involved in Operation Gladio, a campaign of false flag terrorism which ran during the 1960s-80s in Europe, and involved intelligence agencies funding and supporting extreme right-wing terrorist groups, as well as committing massacres, shootings, assassinations and acts of terror all across Europe, such as in countries like Italy, in order to blame it on the government's political enemies at the time (communists) and sow fear among the public.

Operation Northwoods was a plan (now declassified) for an elaborate false flag operation which was approved by all the joint chiefs of staff in 1962, but turned down by JFK. It involved hijacking and blowing up airliners, sinking ships full of people, conducting bombings and killing American citizens, all with the purpose of blaming it on Cuba and using it as an excuse to invade Cuba.

In September of 2000, the Project for a New American Century, a think tank made up of many future members of the Bush administration, released it's report titled "Rebuilding America's Defences", which called for the use of military force to expand American imperialism and gain control of regions such as the middle east. They then say that attaining these goals will be difficult, "absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor".

Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that the twin towers and WTC 7 (the third building to come down on 9/11) were brought down by controlled demolition. The controlled demolition theory is supported by over 1,600 Architects & Engineers as well as thousands of other scientists.

The collapses of the twin towers and WTC 7 feature all the characteristics of controlled demolition and none of the characteristics of a natural, gravitational collapse from fires. The towers were designed, according to the engineers who built them, to withstand MULTIPLE 707 impacts, yet on 9/11 they fell at near-freefall speed in an explosive manner that could not possibly have been caused by fires. At 5:20 PM on 9/11, Building 7 fell at complete freefall acceleration, which is impossible in a natural collapse without the involvement of controlled demolition.

An international team of scientists found explosives (nanothermite) in the dust from ground zero, and they have published a peer-reviewed paper documenting the evidence of this. Nanothermite is a very high-tech powerful incendiary which can only be manufactured in sophisticated laboratories and not in caves in Afghanistan. It is more silent than conventional explosives and can cut through steel like butter. Multiple byproducts of nanothermite (iron microspheres, molten iron) have also been found at ground zero by multiple independent organizations and scientists.

NORAD, the US air defense agency, routinely sends out jets to intercept errant airliners within minutes. On 9/11, they let four hijacked planes fly around in American airspace for hours without intercepting them, in a spectacular and total "failure" of the command chain.

Evidence is everywhere showing that the US recieved countless warnings about 9/11 from governments and intelligence agencies but not only did they not act, they did everything possible to prevent and obstruct the FBI from investigating or apprehending the hijackers when they were in the US.

The official story of 9/11 has been proven to be impossible and false from every angle, in every imaginable way. The official 9/11 Commission's conclusion was written before it even began, and it's own members resigned saying it was "set up to fail", "disgusting", and "a national scandal". In the end, the commission did not answer 70% of the questions of the victim's family members, who are now the primary voice in calling for a new, real, investigation into 9/11.

The 9/11 conspiracy theories have all been debunked by experts such as Popular Mechanics, engineers, the designer of the Twin Towers, also the controlled demolition of WTC 7, and the Pentagon have been debunked numerous times with evidence. There are sites related to 9/11 conspiracies you can use as a reference though just google "9/11 conspiracy theories" and "9/11 conspiracy theories debunked".

I'm not into conspiracies but one I do NOT buy is the "magic bullet theory" that was used to explain the John F. Kennedy assassination; physics wise and technology wise it does not add up at all. Who killed Kennedy, there are many theories: CIA, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cuba & Fidel Castro, the Mafia, etc.etc.

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There is just too much evidence now that suggests an inside job: the fact that ALL THE WRECKAGE WAS SHIPPED ABROAD as soon as possible, the fact that even ROLLS ROYCE themselves have said that the engine recovered at the Pentagon WAS NOT the type of engine used on the type of plane (b757) that was said to be responsible. The fact that some of the 'hijackers' are still alive: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLE... the fact that no jets were scrambled in time; that no significant plane debris was found at the pentagon site (planes do not vaporize!); that the buildings seem to be demolished, especially building 7; that jet fuel cannot melt steel, even though molten steel was seen "flowing like lava"; that the first responders heard explosions in the basement and within the buildings before they collapsed etc...

-WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein admitted that building 7 was pulled down by a controlled demolition: