9/11 Conspiracy Theories by Ryan Cooper

On September 11, 2001, a series of horrible events happened that changed the way we view our safety and our freedom. This was the day that 19 militants with the group of "al-Qaeda" hijacked four commercial airliners and carried out suicide attacks against important US structures ("9/11 Attacks"). But, could this be the only side of the story that the government and media are trying to show us? Since then, there have been several different conspiracy theory's that have solid information backing them up. These are the most popular among them:

1.      The Twin Towers collapsed at free-fall accelerations through the path of greatest resistance (Thomas).

2.      Nano-thermite and military-grade explosives were found in dust from the towers. Tons of melted steel were found in tower debris (1).  

3.      Tower 7, which wasn’t hit by a plane, collapsed neatly into its own footprint (1).

Let's dive in deeper and go into detail about each of these theories and see how possible these sides of the story could actually be, compared to the story that has been aired on the news. 

        George W. Bush, the forty-third president of The United States, faced many challenges throughout his presidency and was under an excessive amount of stress that nobody could comprehend. Bush encountered multiple conflicts that affected his role as the face of the nation, but an issue within The United States in particular was the negative effects of terrorism. On September 11, 2001, The World Trade Center of The United States was attacked by a terrorist organization identified as Al Quaeda. After further research and investigation, the head of the organization was confirmed as a man by the name of Osama Bin Laden. This Islamic terrorist group was very active against the citizens of The United States and as the president of the nation, George W. Bush was under more tension than any other president has been.

The main internal conflict that Bush was facing at the time of the destruction of The Twin Towers was that no one knew what to do, where to begin, or how society can contribute to help recover from this horrible catastrophe. After the attack, many people became suspicious of information given by the media. Could the media be involved with covering up important data and key parts to the attack? Could the real story be a mystery to the people across the nation? Furthermore, Bush creating Department of Homeland Security, Bush sent American troops to Afghanistan to resolve our conflict with the Taliban, and to seize Osama Bin Laden. This move by Bush put pressure on the Taliban, forcing them to return back to there country and disrupt their plans, but Bin Laden was still not found. The terrorist attack of The World Trade Center affected Bush's mental health drastically and impacted the nation of The United States as a whole."This is a day when all Americans, from every walk of life, unite in our resolve for justice and peace," as addressed by George W. Bush  the following evening of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 (Text of Bush's Address).

George W. Bush's main external conflict that caused stress was dealing with the aftermath of the attack and the terrorist organization that corrupted our society. At the time of the first attack, Bush was at a classroom in Sarasota, Florida to publicize his education policy and to listen to students read (Rouse). At 8:55 AM, the first plane hit one of the Twin Towers. At the time of the crash, it was dismissed as an accident and Bush continued to carry on with the kids in the class room (Griffin). After the second plane hit the other tower at approximately 9:05 AM, Andrew Card, the chief of staff, addressed to Bush, "A second plane hit the second Tower. America is under attack" (1). Bush had a very plain and nonreactive behavior and remained to sit there minute after minute, not knowing what to do, where to go, or what kind of action to take. "Jennifer Barrs had reported in the Tampa Tribune that, after Card whispered in Bush’s ear, the president picked up his book and read with the children for 'eight or nine minutes' (Griffin).”

This type of conflict follows internal conflict, because these were the problems that Bush was facing himself. Bush was put in the position to be the leader of the country at the wrong time, causing him to be stressed physically and emotionally. Bush was blamed for the actions he didn't take, but no one knew what to do at the time of the events, being faced with many challenges during the time, and was under more stress than anyone should with the whole country in his hands.

On September 11^th, four airlines flights were hijacked by the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Each plane that was hijacked had its own destructive plan to cause our country the most terror and havoc possible within a small time span. The planes target were the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and one of the three planes went down in a open field in Pennsylvania. It wasn’t until much later when people started to question the story of what actually occurred on September 11^th, 2001. Many conspiracy theories have been stated on the internet, and some of the theories are plausible. The Twin Towers collapsed at free-fall accelerations through the path of greatest resistance, Nano-thermite and military-grade explosives were found in dust from the towers, and tons of melted steel were found also, and tower seven, which wasn’t hit by a plane, collapsed neatly into its own footprint (Thomas).

The first theory states that the Twin Towers collapsed at a free-fall acceleration through the path of greatest resistance. Many people believe that the way the towers fell are not logical and wouldn’t of falen the way they did if only the plane was the cause of the fall. The Twin Towers fell completely to ground level in just fifteen to twenty seconds (McIlvaine). Each floor of the towers contained over four million pounds of structure reinforcement, and could simply not continue to fall the way the towers fell if the floors collapsed on each other. The way the towers fell was more like a chain reaction, like as if the structure of the towers were weakened prior to the attack, somethings just don’t add up about the way the towers fell. If you look at how long it took each tower to fall (fifteen to twenty seconds) and the towers being 100 plus stories high, it seems like the towers gave absolutely no resistance to the fall (1). 100 plus stories and being well over 1,200 feet tall doesn’t seem logical on how quickly the towers fell. The path looked identical to an controlled demolition of a skyscraper.

"The Twin Towers used a “tube within a tube” architectural design, which provided considerable open office space in the interiors of the Towers. Much of the structural support was provided by a dense grouping of thick central core columns in the interior and the perimeter walls on the outside" (Thomas). This quote explains how well the buildings were designed and built to hold and support well over the weight of the mass pushing down on each level of the towers. So, if the weight didn’t cause the towers to fall, what did? The heat? Well, actually fires rarely ever get hot enough to cause the whole structure of the towers to collapse or even enough heat to weaken the supporting metal. Even with the help of the jet fuel in the plane, it's still not enough heat to melt the steel surrounding structures, something other must have caused the collapse.

The second claim is that Nano-thermite and military-grade explosives were found in dust from the towers and that tons of melted steel were found in the towers debris. Thermite is a composition of metal powder, fuel and metal oxide. When ignited, the thermite can reach maximum temperature of well over 4000°C  in the matter of two seconds and can burn for as long as fifteen seconds (McIlvaine). There has been proof that some residue of the thermite has been recovered from Ground Zero. All of the thermite that’s been recovered from the site has been seized and destroyed by the government. It is very odd that the government destroyed all the evidence of the thermite at Ground Zero unless they're trying to hide something from the public. There has been evidence of a small pool of molten metal melted at the bottom of the debris. It has been stated that jet fuel doesn’t burn at a high enough temperature to melt the structure and the steel beams of the twin towers, so could the thermite igniting and burning cause the steel support structures to melt be the cause of the tower falling?

The last theory states that tower seven was not hit by a plane, but collapsed neatly into its own footprint. Nearly almost seven hours after the Twin Towers fell, building number seven came down mysteriously on its own. The collapse of the building has been know as a mystery. Many people, believe that the fire spread from the Twin Towers and ignited the building, causing it to be brought down. "The same should have been true, to be sure, of the collapse of the Twin Towers. But they had been hit by planes, which had ignited big fires in them, and many people assumed this combination of causes to be sufficient to explain why they came down" (Griffin). The problem was that tower seven was not hit by a plane, so apparently the building that was made up of steel frames and with so much structural engineering collapsed due to a fire? It makes more sense to believe that tower seven was pre-armed with explosives that assisted in bringing down the massive structure.  

A total of twenty people including staff and students were asked the question, "Do you believe that the media is hiding the true story of 9/11 from the public?" And, the results are that fourteen out of twenty people agree that the media is hiding the key story of 9/11 from us. It is crazy to see how many people agree, and that almost everyone who agreed provided their opinions as to why they feel that way. The popular conspiracy theories include that the Twin Towers collapsed at free-fall accelerations through the path of greatest resistance, Nano-thermite and military-grade explosives were found in dust from the towers, and tons of melted steel were found also, and tower 7, which wasn’t hit by a plane, collapsed neatly into its own footprint (Thomas).

              In conclusion, on September 11, 2001, 19 militants with the group of "al-Qaeda" that opposes the United States and what it stands for, hijacked four commercial airliners and carried out attacks against important US structures such as the World Trade Center. Flying the hijacked planes into the twin towers as part of an suicide mission to try and cripple our country and weaken our government. It was stated that the towers fell due to the plane crashes alone, but many conspiracy theories arose out of this catastrophe. These theories provide great evidence proving that what the media is showing us, isn't the true story after all.

1.       The Twin Towers collapsed at free-fall accelerations through the path of greatest resistance (Thomas).  

2.       Nano-thermite and military-grade explosives were found in dust from the towers. Tons of melted steel were found in tower debris (1).   

3.       Tower 7, which wasn’t hit by a plane, collapsed neatly into its own footprint (1).  

These are some of the popular theories that prove that the story aired about the attacks on September 11^th , are lacking the key parts of the actual truth about these horrible attacks

Work Cited:

Griffin, David Ray. "9/11 Truth: The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven." The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven. Global Research 14 September 2009, 14 Sept. 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2016. <http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-mysterious-collapse-of-wtc-seven/15201>.    

Griffin, David Ray. "9/11 Contradictions: Bush in the Classroom." 9/11 Contradictions: Bush in the Classroom on the Morning of September 11, 2001. The Canadian and Global Research, 10 Sept. 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2016. <http://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-contradictions-bush-in-the-classroom/8555>.  

  McIlvaine, Bob. "RememberBuilding7 New TV Ad Featuring 9/11 Family Members, Architects and Engineers." Remember Building 7. N.p., Mar. 2011. Web. 29 Nov. 2016. <http://rememberbuilding7.org/>.    

Rouse, Margaret J. "Department of Homeland      Security."SearchCompliance" Margaret Rouse,  10, July        2013. Web. 24 Oct. 2016.     

"Text of Bush's Address." CNN. Cable News Network, 11 Sept. 2001. Web. 16 Nov. 2016.    

Thomas, Dave. "The 9/11 Truth Movement: The Top Conspiracy Theory, a Decade Later - CSI." CSI. Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.4, July/August 2011, July-Aug. 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2016. <http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_9_11_truth_movement_the_top_conspiracy_theory_a_decade_later>.