The Twin Tower Attacks: Al Qaeda or the U.S. Government
Many theories have been created supporting the likelihood that the attacks of September 11th were a result of corruption in our own government. There are certain events that happened that can lead us to believe that there was prior knowledge of the attacks. In the days prior, a very large amount of “put options” were placed on United Airlines and American Airlines stock. These airlines happened to be the same airlines that were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon.
Also, the fall of the Towers very closely resembles the falls of buildings that are undergoing controlled demolitions. The buildings fell straight down, as if their interior structure was weakened just like those during controlled demolitions. If the interior of the Twin Towers had not been tampered with they should not have fallen straight down, especially in the amount of time that they did. Many people believe that the inside structures of the building had been tampered with and filled with additional explosives thus explaining why the Towers fell straight down, in such a short amount of time.
Many people, such as Brigham Young Universities physicist Steven E. Jones and architect Richard Gage, argue that the aircrafts’ impacts and the resulting fires could not have weakened the buildings structures enough to even initiate a collapse at all. They also argue that even if the fires had burned as hot as the jet fuel would have allowed, the buildings would have required additional explosives to further weaken the structure to allow the buildings to collapse as completely and quickly as they did.
In the weeks after the attacks, many major media sources claimed that the towers had collapsed due to the melting of the inner steel structure of the buildings. The knowledge that the temperatures of burning jet fuel are not high enough to melt steel added to the beliefs that the terrorist attacks were staged by our government.
There are two main reasons why people believe that our government would want to do such a harmful thing to our own country. The first one, which is more widely believed than the other is that staging of the Twin Tower attacks gave our government reason to invade Afghanistan, to “stop terrorism” aka get our hands on more underground oil fields. The second reason, which isn’t as widely accepted, is that there were certain official government documents in the World Trade Centers that held top secret information that high people in the White House (George W. Bush) didn’t want to leak out to the public so he made sure that they were completely destroyed. I trust the sources that I used because, for instance, Brigham Young Universities physicist Steven E. Jones and architect Richard Gage have enough background to make educated theories about whether something is possible of not. For them to agree that the heat produced from the burning jet fuel was not enough to melt the steel structures of the World Trade Center’s makes it seem like a valid argument.
I believe that the reason that more people don’t believe that this was a government set up is because one, people (some more than others) are much too trusting in our government. They don’t want to believe that our very own government would have done something like this just as an excuse to start a war for oil purposes. And two, the government did a pretty good job at keeping the plan a secret. Although some evidence points directly at the government (how the buildings fell, how stock trade when up the days before the attack) that information isn’t enough to convince most people. Although I can’t say for sure if it was our government, or Muslim radicals from Afghanistan, I can say that there is a probability, with the evidence shown, that it was a government plan. There is motivation, and some evidence that links the United States government to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. 