Who was Behind
The 9-11 Attacks?
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Let us use reason and good judgment, with an eye
to human behavior, for whoever were the culprits
of the 9-11 attacks, they were humans.
The approach used on this page involves sound
reasoning on human motivations and human
actions. This should be the first approach, rather
than conjecturing about traces of explosives in
the rubble of the fallen Twin Towers. What we
need most is careful, clear thinking.
© Jonathan Whitcomb 2011
Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
Photo by F Morgen
Some Americans, albeit a relatively small minority, believe that
the attacks of September 11, 2011, were not the result of foreign
terrorists but the work of persons in American government, a
serious charge. That government-origin idea is here addressed.
No individual on earth, acting alone, had the power to cause all
the destruction of 9-11. It must have been a group of persons.
Two things must both have existed in those persons: They must
have had the moral depravity to plan and execute those acts
and they must have had the ability to carry out those acts with-
out being thwarted. Let us look at each of these separately.
It seems that hardly one American in a hundred was pleased
at the destruction of human life on that day. The vaste majority
of Americans were appalled, including both those who came
to believe it came from foreign terrorists and those who came
to believe it came from American government officials. This
is what both sides of the origin controversy have in common:
They are convinced it was a horrible crime. Indeed it was.
Is it reasonable to conjecture that a number of U.S. government
officials, all at the same time, got the idea to destroy American
skyscrapers? Did several of them simultaneously image killing
thousands of Americans? No. For the government-origin con-
jecture to be feasible, one person in some branch of American
government would have had to start that conspiracy process.
Now how could one depraved government official begin to
gain help for an enormous attack against Americans? He or
she would have had to find somebody else just as depraved.
Then more individuals equally depraved would need to find
more, and then more. One non-depraved person would have
immediately exposed the conspiracy, or (if fear had prevented
that) would have leaked out the details, causing the deprived
conspirators to be caught. Yes, even before 9-11, planning to
murder thousands of people was illegal.
Take this case in context: September 11, 2001, was not long
after an American president had been impeached by the
House of Representatives for lying about having an extra-
marital affair; President Clinton only just avoided total
impeachment, and everything came out into the open. The
point? Even the most powerful person in American govern-
ment is subject to the law and can be caught.
Look even deeper into presidential power. On that horrible
day in 2001, when President Bush was flying on Air Force One,
he did not have power to return home to Washington, for the
Secret Service overruled him. The office of President of the
United States carries too little influence to allow for planning
an attack that would kill thousands of Americans.
What person could have had the influence to plan the attacks?
It would have had to have been somebody outside the United
States, somebody who lived in a culture in which killing many
Americans would not have triggered a revolt against him. And
that culture would have had to have been so twisted that the vile
assasin could have bragged about the deed after the Americans
had died.
After 9-11, who bragged about the deed? There lies the answer.
By Jonathan David Whitcomb
American Government or Terrorists?
Questions and Answers
Q: Why does it look like there was a controlled
demolition on one or both towers?
A: What difference does it make? Not everyone
thinks it looks that way. What would anyone
expect from a fueled airliner colliding with a
skyscraper? A balloon pop? The Federal gov-
ernment has no need to destroy thousands of
American lives through demolitions; they have
the Internal Revenue Service.
Q: What about rumors that residue of explosives
was found at the World Trade Center site?
A: What about the 1993 bombing by mostly-
foreign-born terrorists: an attack on the base-
ment of the World Trade Center? Who would
be the more likely suspects in an attack just
eight years later? Foreign-born terrorists win
hands down against the U. S. Government,
regardless of rumors about residues.
Q: What about the idea that a missile hit the
Pentagon, not an airliner?
A: Eyewitnesses said it was an airliner. Nobody
saw any missile hit the Pentagon. Case closed.
Q: How could foreign terrorists in Afghanistan
have pulled off the 9-11 attacks?
A: How could they have failed to do so? After all,
they had years of experience, worldwide, in
terrorism. And who else would do it? In the
remote country of Afghanistan, they had all
the opportunities and time that they needed.
Q: Could not some small secret branch of the
Federal government have planned and then
executed the 9-11 attacks?
A: What secret part of the government would
have even one person who would attempt
such a thing? How much more logical is the
idea that Al-Qaeda did just what they said
that they had done! It is exactly their style.
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