10 Shocking Conspiracies About 911

10. How did building 7 collapse? Seven hours after the final collapse of the
twin tower, building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed. It was the first and only
steel skyscraper in the world to collapse because of fire. Despite the collapse making architectural
history, all of the thousands of tons of steel were taken away to be melted.

This removed
the possibility of analyzing the steel and explaining how it officially collapsed. Conspiracy theorists argue that building 7
was brought down by a controlled demolition. However, the National Institute of Standards
and Technology concluded that it collapsed due to its unusual design: it had restricted
foundations due to being built over a subway. As firefighters focused on saving lives rather
than putting out building fires, building 7 burned long enough to weaken and break the
beams that held the steel structure together, eventually causing it to collapse.

Source: BBC, NIST. 09. Did a missile hit the pentagon? At 9:43 AM a Boeing 757 commercial plane flew
into the Pentagon. Conspiracy theorists believe that the impact on the building did not reflect
the size of the plane and instead claim that the Pentagon was hit by a missile attack.

However, remnants of the airplane have been
spotted in photographs of the Pentagon attack, and eyewitness accounts recall an airplane
flying into the building. The conspiracy centers around a 3.66 Meter
impact hole in the Pentagon, which theorists believe to be the missile impact point. This
was in fact the Boeing 757 s landing gear, which punctured the wall and was found nearby. The main damage to the building was 18.3 Meters
wide, and forensic evidence shows that the plane lost its wings before impact, making
it the perfect size for the plane.

Source: Popular Mechanics 08. Did people profit from the 9/11 attacks? In the run up to the 9/11 attacks a large
number of puts were made against American Airlines, United Airlines and organizations
with tenancies in the World Trade Centre. A put  is a bet made for stocks to fall,
which of course they did. American Airline stock prices fell by 39%, which translated
to around $5 million total profit for those who bet that the stock would fall.

These facts have led some to believe that
the number of put options increased so dramatically because some people knew that they would profit
from deaths caused by 9/11. The Journal of Business states that there
was an abnormal measure of activity on the days leading up to September 11, which is
consistent with investors trading with advance knowledge of the attacks. Source: The Journal Of Business, CBS News 07. Why were the hijacked planes not shot
down? Between the first plane hitting the World
Trade Center and the fourth plane crash landing in Pennsylvania, there was over an hour for
the US military to formulate a response.

The fact that none of the planes were intercepted
by air force jets, especially after the first tower was hit, has led to conspiracy theories
that NORAD was deliberately told to stand down and let the attacks occur. It turns out
one group of fighters was scrambled, but they headed out to sea - away from the unfolding
attacks. However, NORAD wasnt notified about the
first plane hijacking until 8 minutes before the plane hit the tower, and two jets were
scrambled but were still south of Long Island when the second tower was attacked. NORAD
didnt even receive information about the fourth plane in Pennsylvania until 3 minutes
after it had crashed - making it impossible to respond.

Source: BBC, Huffington Post, Norad, CNN,
History 06. Did Intelligence Services have prior knowledge? On May 1st 2001 the CIA warned the White House
that a group within the US was planning a terrorist attack. Over the next few months, other warnings were
made. On August 6th 2001 President Bush received
a classified document prepared by US intelligence agencies entitled Bin Laden determined
to strike in US.

The memo stated that FBI. Information indicates patterns of suspicious
activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks. Despite all of the warnings, no preparations
seem to have taken place and there were no warnings made to the public about the suspected
terrorist attack. In fact, following 9/11 the White House denied it had any specific
intelligence about an impending attack - but these memos seem to indicate otherwise.

Source: CNN, BBC, NY Times 05. Terrorist recruitment Former Counter-terrorism Advisor Richard Clarke
has made the explosive allegation that the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers. Before the attacks, the CIA withheld crucial
information from the government that two Saudi jihadists had arrived in the US. They had
attended a terrorist gathering in Malaysia just days before.

These same terrorists went on to become suicide
hijackers on 9/11. Why would the CIA hide this information from
the White House for so long? One theory is that the agency was trying to secretly hire
the terrorists to work undercover in Al-Qaeda. The CIA has called these accusations baseless,
but the cover-up still has government officials suspicious of the agency's true motives. Source: The Daily Beast 04.

Trillion dollar cover-up On September 10th 2001 the Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld declared war on the Pentagon bureaucracy. Rumsfeld claimed that Americas department
of defense was wasting vast amounts of money on the military. In fact, he announced that the US government
had lost $2.3 Trillion, and couldnt account for 25% of its military spending. Rumsfeld arranged to change the Pentagons
spending program the next day.

But, perhaps conveniently for the Bush administration,
the country was victim to a terrorist attack on September 11th  and Rumsfelds admission
received scant news coverage. Officials later claimed that the money was
never really lost, but untracked in a complex accountability system. Source: CBS News 03. What happened to the flights black
boxes? Flight recorders are near-indestructible instruments,
which are required on all passenger planes to keep track of a planes speed, altitude,
movement, and conversations in the cockpit.

According to the 9/11 Commission Report, no
recording devices were ever found at the World Trade Center crash site. But on September 14th a paramedic and firefighter
did discover two damaged black boxes among the wreckage. A source from the National Transportation
Safety Board has also spoken out, claiming that it helped analyse the very boxes that
the FBI claimed are missing. Why would US intelligence want to conceal
such vital information? Conspiracy theorists believe that this is
further proof that 9/11 was an inside job to initiate the War on Terror.

Source: Counter Punch 02. What happened to flight 93? United Airlines flight 93 was one of the four
planes that was hijacked. Using the air phones on board, the passengers soon learned that
their plane was destined for a terrorist attack. They decided to take a stand and overthrow
the terrorists, bringing down the plane in the process.

However, some argue that flight 93 was really
shot down by a missile from the government to prevent it hitting the planned target.
A jet was seen by multiple eyewitnesses flying over the debris shortly after the crash. But
authorities have stated this was a private aircraft asked to investigate the crash site. Source: Popular Mechanics, History, Daily
Mail, Independent 01. Were explosives used to bring down the
towers? Spawned by witness reports of explosive sounds
and the way in which the buildings collapsed, some people believe that the twin towers were
brought down intentionally using explosives.

Leslie Robertson, the original structural
engineer of the twin towers, has explained that the sound of explosions was in fact caused
by the banging of the steel floors collapsing on top of each other. This was coupled with
small blast noises made by the air being squeezed out of the buildings as they gave way. Rescue workers found no evidence of controlled
explosives on the site, but physicist Steven Jones believes thermite was used to demolish
them, which can melt steel in seconds and leaves no trace. Source: BBC..