Yeah the 9/11 conspiracies are some of the worst. Absolute drivel. My favourite one is the pre-planted demolition charges theory; apparently the thousands and thousands of people that worked in the WTC didn't notice the dozens of people it would take to plant the required amount of charges or the huge amount of structural deformation needed to prep the building! Watch one of those demolition docs on Sky where they drop a small 10 story building, take a look at the prep work that goes into it for days before hand and tell me that the CIA (or fucking whoever) were able to do that to not one but two buildings each over a hundred stories tall, in the middle of NYC and not one single fucker noticed!!LDB wrote:Of all the conspiracy theories this is the most absurd one going. All the "theories" put forward by those loose change morons have been debunked to death but people still believe it. If there is a conspiracy around 9/11 then its nothing to do with any of the "evidence" presented by doubters so far.hartygooner wrote: I do genuinly belive the 9/11 attacks were nothing to do with any islamist terrorists and there are many fishy things with other "terrorist attacks" which prompt new laws especially in America.
A good one is that in the conspiracy theorists' minds jet fuel needs to be able to melt steel to make the buildings collapse. Errr, no it just needs to weaken it till it bends and then the weight of the floors above cause it to break and the whole thing collapses in on itself.
But the best one by far is the assertion that debris from flight 93 somehow found its way 5 miles from the crash site ("proving" it was a missile attack). How was this measured? By going on google maps and plotting a journey which takes you on a indirect route around the roads . In a straight line the two sites were less then a mile apart
The US government and intelligence agencies were guilty of many things in relation to 9/11 (incompitence, bad info analysis, laziness, poor working relationships between agencies, etc) but conspiracy is not one of them.
They knew a major Islamist attack was coming (there had been some already - USS Cole, Embassy and Marine barracks bombings etc) but they did not know specifically about the 9/11 attacks.