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{{Event
|description=A complex and spectacular set of events in New York and Washington. The US government was quick to blame Al Qaeda, though no evidence of guilt was presented and there is much suspicion about what Al Qaeda really is. In the USA 9-11 assisted the Patriot Act's roll back of civil liberties, the stepping up of domestic surveillance and the financial advancement of the military industrial complex. Abroad 9-11 helped launched wars on Iraq and Afghanistan that had been planned long before.
|start=2001/09/11
|end=2001/09/11
|constitutes=False flag attack, structural deep event, bombing, assassination, financial fraud, Acts of terrorism
|locations=New York, Washington DC, USA
|perpetrators=Mossad, US/Deep state, Supranational Deep State, Operation Gladio/B
|witnesses=Richard Grove, Carne Ross
|effects=Iraq War, Afghanistan war 2001, War on terror, US/Police state
|ON_perpetrators=9-11/The 19 Hijackers, Zacarias Moussaoui, Al Qaeda
|wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
|historycommons=http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project
|sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/September_11,_2001
|image=9-11+gwb.jpg
|image_width=328px
|image_caption=The dramatic explosion of a world trade center tower on 9/11.
|ON_constitutes=Casus belli, Islamic terrorism
|sequel=2001 Anthrax Attacks
|isgp=https://isgp-studies.com/911
|fatalities=2996
|injuries=6000
|wikiquote=http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/9-11
|type=Aircraft hijackings, Suicide attacks, Mass murder, Terrorism
}}
The '''Attacks of 11 September 2001''' (referred to as '''9/11''', although termed '''9-11''' on this website) were a [[structural deep event]]. They were quickly followed by the [[Amerithrax]] plots (US anthrax was sent to the US [[politician]]s who were opposing the introduction of "[[counter-terrorism]]" legislation) and the (nearly [[memory holed]]) [[Mexican legislative assembly attack]]<ref>In which two well armed members of [[Mossad]] were arrested in the Mexican parliament then released without charge</ref>. The {{CCM}} supported the US government's claim that the events were a surprise attack by [[19 hijackers]]. While initially most had a blind faith in [[9-11/Official narrative|this story]], by 2016 the majority of the US population believed that the US government was concealing what they know about the event.<ref>https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2016/10/11/what-arent-they-telling-us/</ref>

==Official Narrative==
{{FA|9-11/Official narrative}}
The "[[9-11/The 19 Hijackers|19 men with boxcutters]]" [[9-11/Official narrative|official narrative]] was promoted aggressively from the day itself, and although a few people pronounced themselves [[9-11/Dissident|doubtful]] from day one,<ref name=f911s>[[Document:The First 9-11 Sceptic]]</ref> it was widely believed amongst the majority of the public for some years. However, it is increasingly understood to be no more than a convenient cover story that has worn very thin. Almost everyone is agreed on the ''lack'' of integrity of the officials who came up with the official story, and a 2015 survey revealed support for a review amongst the Canadian population, something which the government failed to respect, trotting out the familiar platitude about "[[conspiracy theories]]".<ref>[http://rethink911.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Press-Release_Petition-for-Parliamentary-Review-of-9-11-1.8.15.pdf A 2014(?) survey] by polling firm [[YouGov]] of the Canadian population revealed 33% in favor of a Parliamentary review of the [[9/11 Commission Report]], with 26% neither for nor against, and 19% opposed.</ref>

===Challenges===
The [[US government]]'s [[official narrative]] has been denounced in the [[UN]]<ref>[[Document:Ahmadinejad 2010 UN Speech]]</ref>, the [[EU parliament]] and in many national parliaments including [[Belgium]]<ref>[[Document:Mali speech to Belgian Parliament by Laurent Louis MP]]</ref>, [[Italy]]<ref>http://www.thelocal.it/20130912/video-911-was-an-inside-job-italian-mp</ref>, [[Japan]]<ref>http://www.projectcensored.org/24-japan-questions-9-11-and-the-global-war-on-terror/</ref> and [[Iran]]<ref>http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=17845</ref>. [[Francesco Cossiga]], former [[Italian President]], stated in 2008 in Italy’s most widely read newspaper that [[9/11]] was carried out by the [[CIA]] and the [[Mossad]].<ref>http://www.corriere.it/politica/07_novembre_30/osama_berlusconi_cossiga_27f4ccee-9f55-11dc-8807-0003ba99c53b.shtml</ref>

[[Mark Gorton]] terms [[Kevin Ryan]]'s ''Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects'' "the best book I have yet read on the topic of 9/11".<ref>http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showuser=6420&tab=topics</ref>

===Problems===
[[image:Jetfuel and the twin towers.jpg|thumbnail|240px|left|Compare the volumes of jetfuel and the concrete/steel structure from WTC1 & 2 which its combustion supposedly pulverized and by official figures, heated to more than 1376°F / 746°C; other measurements go as high as 2,800°F / 1537°C. See [[9-11/WTC Controlled demolition | WTC Controlled demolition]].]]
Legions of insiders (some victims of [[9-11/Premature death|premature deaths]]) have testified that the official story didn't fit their experiences of that day. A mound of factual evidence has been produced, and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, pointing to highly improbable accidents and glaring anomalies about the official story. The [[US government]] has frequently cited "[[national security]]" to try to obscure the conduct of key officials on that day, and the {{ccm}} has been ''almost''<ref>http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/682256/Were-9-11-towers-blown-up-by-bombs-University-probes-if-planes-REALLY-were-responsible</ref> completely [[censored]] of articles questioning the {{on}}.

====Drills====
{{FA|9-11/Drills}}
A quite unprecedented number of drills were scheduled on or about the day of 9/11, and on or about the topic of Ossama Bin-Laden hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. Of these, perhaps the most important were those by the [[North American Aerospace Defense Command]] (NORAD). These moved the majority{{cn}} of the US fighter jets so far from the Northeast Air Defense Sector that they could not reach [[New York]] or Washington in time. Moreover, they used "live injects" i.e. inserted fake blips onto the air traffic control which confused the operators who could not tell the exercise from the real events of that day.<ref>[[Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State]]</ref> 

====Air defence failure====
{{FA|9-11/Air Defence}}
The drills described above contributed in part to the failure of the US [[9-11/Air Defence|air defence on 9/11]]. However, multiple other factors also played a part (which are also unexplained by the [[9/11 Commission]]'s [[9-11/Commission/Report|report]]. One was the change on June 1, 2001 of the procedure for dealing with hijackings, which clarified that the [[Secretary of Defense]] must be contacted before shooting down a plane (allowing [[Dick Cheney]] to effectively order a stand down simply by making himself unavailable).<ref>http://911review.com/means/standdown.html</ref> Another contributing factor was the fact that key personnel had just been changed and/or unavailable on the day.<ref>http://911blogger.com/news/2011-04-26/why-planes-were-not-intercepted-911-wall-street-lawyer-and-special-ops-hijack-coordinator</ref>

==Purposes==
{{FA|9-11/Purposes}}
The 9/11 event served a variety of [[9-11/Purposes|purposes]], including domestic repression and facilitating resource wars in the [[2003 Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[Invasion of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]. [[Hiruyoki Hamada]] termed it "the go-to justification for [[colonialism]], [[corporatism]] and [[militarism]] for [[SDS|the empire]]."<ref>https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/22/killing-unknown/ saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20201022205152/https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/22/killing-unknown/ Archive.org]</ref> The term "inside job" was widely used, but although US government insiders were undoubtedly involved in its commission, this phrase obscures the [[9-11/Israel did it|major role played by Israelis]].
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==Cover-up==
{{FA|9-11/Cover-up}}
The cover-up of the events of that day was a larger job than organising the events themselves, and required collaboration from many groups both in and outside the US.

===Ground Zero===
[[Kurt Sonnenfeld]] was one of only 4 [[FEMA]] videographers allowed to take footage of ground zero.<ref name=911b>http://911blogger.com/news/2014-04-03/kurt-sonnenfeld-video-collection-being-released-loose-change</ref> He reported that {{SMWQ
|text=immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the entire area in lower Manhattan was sealed off to the public and to the news media. All cameras were prohibited inside the secured perimeter and any “unauthorized” cameras were immediately confiscated.
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|subjects=WTC, 9-11/Cover-up
|date=8 May 2009
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|source_URL=https://www.voltairenet.org/article160666.html
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===Official Inquiries===
{{FAs|9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry|9-11/Commission}}
There have been two US government inquiries. The [[9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry|first]], begun in February 2002, by its own admission not in "the blame game about what went wrong from an intelligence perspective" produced a report from which [[28 pages]] were completely [[censored]] until partially redacted copies were released in July [[2016]]. The second, the "[[9/11 Commission]]" was termed a "cover-up" even by one of its members.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090716055018/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover</ref>

===Media Response===
{{FA|9-11/Media response}}
With only occasional slip ups, the Western {{ccm}} has been almost uniformly supine in refusing to report any information which challenges the US government's [[9-11/Official narrative]]. Exceptions include ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'', which published a story in November 2007 by former [[Italian Prime Minister]] [[Francesco Cossiga]], who wrote that it was widely known that 9/11 had been engineered by the [[CIA]] and the [[Mossad]] with the "help of the Zionist world".

===Compensation fund===
{{FA|9-11/Compensation fund}}
The [[9-11 Compensation fund]] paid the 97% of victims relatives. A condition of their accepting [[money]] was that they would not take [[legal action about 9-11]].

==Exposure==
{{FA|9-11/Exposure}}
Only a few observers detected holes in the US government's official story of 9-11 on the day itself. However, as [[9-11 whistleblower]]s emerged and evidence began to accumulate that contradicted the [[9-11 Official narrative]], ever more people, both in and outside the US see that 9-11 is not as it was presented on the day by the {{ccm}}. The [[internet]], by providing a platform on which to discuss the events, greatly assisted the [[9-11/Truth movement]].

===Truth movement===
{{FA|9-11/Truth movement}}
[[image:9-11 do-the-math.jpg|right|222px]]
Many people worldwide have sought the truth about the events of 9/11, and declared themselves unsatisfied by the US government's claim of the "[[19 guys with boxcutters]]". These people make up the grassroots movement known as the [[9-11 Truth movement]]. Many see the failure of the {{on}} to explain (or for many years, even to ''mention'') the extraordinary [[collapse of WTC7]] as their most effective means to encourage others to realise that they have been the victim of a [[big lie]].

===Insider Trading===
{{FA|9-11/Insider Trading}}
9/11 included a massive [[financial fraud]]. The insider trading on that day was relative tiny, but still indicative — as was the fact that the [[SEC]] covered it up, and then ordered their records of the investigation destroyed.

==Response==
[[File:911 bush in classroom.jpg|thumbnail|left|[[George W. Bush]] is informed by a [[Secret Service]] handler of the plane that hit the WTC tower on 9/11. He continues reading the story about a goat to the class. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg5NvKpJfKE Youtube video] [http://archive.ph/LMQxo archived].]] George W. Bush had no personal response to being informed about the attacks, something which was not reported upon at the time, and only emerged years(?) later. His failure to act contrasts with a slick machine which went into action (for example issuing the [[Patriot Act]]) by the [[deep politician]]s who had prepared the 9/11 event. While an obvious windfall for "security" contractors, 9/11 was exploited by the [[US Deep state]] to profit both at home and abroad. [[Dick Cheney]] used informal CIA contacts to organise a [[hit squad]]<ref>https://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_US_has_been_running_executive_0311.html saved at [http://archive.is/KXd2y Archive.is] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20161208143555/http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_US_has_been_running_executive_0311.html Archive.org]</ref> and "expressly ordered the agency not to disclose the programme even to congressional overseers with top security clearances, as required by law". It is unknown whether this was connected to the [[9/11 Premature deaths]]. When [[CIA director]] [[Leon Panetta]] discovered this group, he ordered it to be halted.<ref>http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/21051/cia-and-long-history-assassinations</ref>

===Political exploitation===
[[File:9-11-the-excuse-for-everything.jpg|230px|left]]
At home, the event was used to launch the [[permanent war|permanent]] [[state of emergency]] termed the "[[Global War on Terrorism]]" (GWOT), under which banner a number of new laws have been introduced, and older ones have been rewritten. The [[Patriot Act]] and associated laws removed age old prohibitions of [[torture]], [[murder]], and [[indefinite detention]]. Lavish funding was announced for new institutions such as the [[TSA]] and the [[DOHS]] where quickly unleashed on the US citizenry. Familiar institutions began to engage in [[mass surveillance]]. [[Global Research]] talks of "The derogation of [[civil liberties]] and the installation of an Orwellian [[police state]] apparatus within Western countries."<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/september-11-2001-the-crimes-of-war-committed-in-the-name-of-911/5311561</ref> 

Abroad, the event was used as a [[casus belli]] for the resource wars, including invasions of first [[Afghanistan war 2001|Afghanistan]] and then [[Iraq War|Iraq]], although in 2016 ''[[Iran]]'' was found legally responsible by US courts.<ref>https://www.rt.com/usa/335174-iran-damages-september-911-victims/</ref> In 2016, increased talk of "[[the 28 pages]]", suggesting that the event might be used as a leverage over the government of [[Saudi Arabia]].

[[File:An act of war.jpg|280px|right|thumbnail|The controlled media was quick to call the 9-11 attacks "an act of war", a decision which effectively precluded a [[Peter Dale Scott]] writes that "Starting in 2001, both law and freedom have been progressively eroded. International comity, which depends on each state not doing to others what they would not want done to them, has been supplanted, at least for a while, by U.S. unilateral military engagement without constraint, acting without fear of retribution. [[Drone killings]] in far corners of the world have now become routine, causing more than an estimated 2000 Pakistani deaths, the vast majority of them untargeted civilians, and over 75 percent of them under [[President Obama]]. The preemptive war against Iraq, despite being proven both unwarranted and counterproductive, has been followed by the preemptive bombing of [[Libya]], and the prospect of still further campaigns against [[Syria]] and [[Iran]]... 9/11 itself should be seen as a dialectical outcome of America’s imperial expansion and simultaneous decay — a process inevitably afflicting those superstates that amass and retain more power than is necessary for the orderly management of their own affairs."<ref>http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3723</ref>

criminal investigation from being carried out.<ref>http://www.bollyn.com/home/#article_15849</ref>]]

===Legal action===
{{FA|9-11/Legal action}} 
Multiple contradictory rulings have been issued about the events of 9-11, most notably by U.S. District [[Judge]] [[George Daniels]]. In 2011 he blamed [[Iran]], the [[Taliban]] and [[al Qaeda]] for the attacks, and demanded that [[Iran]] pay over $10 billion. In 2015 he ruled that Saudi Arabia had "[[sovereign immunity]]" from prosecution, but he reversed this judgment in March 2018. In July 2017 a [[Lawyers Committee for 911 Inquiry]] was formed.{{by whom}}

==Perpetrators==
There is a huge amount of evidence that the US defences were stymied with complicity of a small number of senior figures in the US government, implicating the [[US Deep state]] in the attack. Their support for the attacks is found in the fact that the events were [[9-11/Cover-up|covered up]] rather than investigated. Researchers differ on whether the cabal ''let it happen on purpose'' (LIHOP) or whether they ''made it happen on purpose'' (MIHOP). [[Mark Gorton]] suggests that the 9/11 operation was planned by [[George H. W. Bush]] although he admits that he has no direct evidence linking him.<ref>[[Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State]]</ref> In recent years, increasing numbers of 9-11 researchers are supporting [[Chris Bollyn]]'s theories, which look at [[Mossad]] involvement<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/741</ref> and there does indeed seem to be a serious case to answer - summarised on the [[9-11/Israel did it]] subpage.
==Legacy==
===Immediate aftermath===
[[Patriot act]]
[[2001 Invasion of Afghanistan]]

Other air disasters and events that happened in late [[2001]] were memory-holed.
*[[George Washington Bridge Plot]] on 11 September
*[[2001 Anthrax attacks]] from 18 September
*[[Linate Airport disaster]] on 8 October
*[[2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack]] on 10 October
*[[American Airlines Flight 587]] (also in [[New York City]]) on 12 November 2001
*[[Crossair Flight 3597]] on 24 November

===Two decades on===
{{FA|9-11/20th Anniversary}} 
[[9-11]] is still in the minds of Americans, 20 years later.

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==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External Links==
* [http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project Complete 911 Timeline.] This is the definitive source on pretty well any and all events that occurred on that day, with useful summaries and links. It remains a 'work-in-progress'
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20020909230957/http://www.billstclair.com/911timeline/AAtimelinecomplete.html Timeline by Paul Thompson] (Version 1.2, September 5, 2002) [[Paul Thompson]] - ([https://archive.is/yeCbx archive.is])
* [https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/CRG204A.html Foreknowledge and "Time Line" of 9-11] archives from [[Globalresearch]]
* [http://www.ic911studies.org/ International Center for 9/11 Studies]
* [http://911scholars.org/ The original Scholars for 911 truth site], founded and moderated by Prof. Jim Fetzer.
* [http://stj911.org/ Scholars for 911 Truth and Justice] - Site associated primarily with Dr Steven Jones.
* [http://www.911truth.org/ 911 Truth.org] - One of the original 911 Truth movement sites.
* [http://www.ae911truth.org/ Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth]
* [http://pilotsfor911truth.org/ Pilots for 911 Truth]
* [http://www.9-11pdp.org/press/index.htm 9/11 Public Discourse Project] - This is the web site of the 10 members of the Kean Hamilton Commission. It is probably the most comprehensive source of information and documents comprising [[Wikispooks:Definitions|"The Official Narrative"]]
* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Category:2001-09-11 Unwelcome Guests 9/11 Page] - An Index of over 60 radio shows about 9/11
* [http://archive.today/2014.04.11-065810/http://debunking-bbc.blogspot.de/2007/02/debunking-bbcs-9-11-conspiracy-files.html A debunking of the BBC's ''Conspiracy Files'' on 9/11]
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* [http://www.luogocomune.net/video September 11 — The New Pearl Harbor by Massimo Mazzucco]