September 11, 2001, the date of terrorist attacks on the United States involving the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash of United Airlines flight 93. Also can refer to any of the theories regarding motives behind the acts, speculation regarding guilty or involved parties, existence of theoretical conspiracies, and contemplation of the evidence pertaining to those actions and events.
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On 9/11, was Building 7 destroyed in a controlled explosion?
There have been a lot of claims made about the circumstances surrounding the events of 9/11 and Building 7 in particular.
The central claim regarding Building 7, that I have heard personally, is that Building 7 fell in such a perfect fluid motion…
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Was Donald Trump at ground zero helping out on 9-11?
Donald Trump claims he was at ground zero on 9-11 helping out. Was he?
I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder," Trump said. "But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you."
And also:
Everyone…
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Did Muslims celebrate the attack on 9/11 in New Jersey in 2001?
Donald Trump claimed this in November 2015:
"I
watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of
people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of
people were cheering."New York
Times
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Did planes crash into the WTC on 9-11?
I was looking through the questions tagged 9-11 and noticed the no-planes theory isn't on here. So:
Were there planes that crashed into the WTC? Some examples of notable claims asserting otherwise are here , here, and here.
Another article…
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Was the BBC report of the WTC-7 falling before it happened a scripted event?
A video on Youtube, “BBC Building 7 Collapse” is a televised news report from the BBC that states that WTC Tower 7 (aka the "Salomon Bros. Building") had collapsed. An overlay on the video by the uploader to Youtube, at around 0:42 in the video,…
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Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9-11?
I know he admitted it or something in one of his earlier videos, but aside from that, do we have any actual solid evidence he ordered the September 11 attacks?
Like if he hadn't of admitted it, and he was captured instead of killed, would we really…
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Did 9/11 lead to many deaths due to car accidents "dwarfing" the attacks themselves?
Well-renowned security expert Bruce Schneier claims that
In the months after 9/11, so many people chose to drive instead of fly that the resulting deaths dwarfed the deaths from the terrorist attack itself, because cars are much more dangerous than…
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Was the passport of one of the 9/11 terrorists found, while "nothing else" from the airplane was recovered?
Someone who "believes branches of the U.S government planned 9/11" said that:
The passport of one of the terrorists was "found". How is it that this
passport survived the crash, while nothing else of the planes' content
was recovered from…
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Did a plane hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001?
Is it possible that a plane hit the side of the pentagon, but did not even scuff up the grass?
There are some claims of other anomalies that don't quite match the idea of a plane hitting there; like a lack of broken plane parts.
Grass…
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Does the $20 bill predict the 9/11 attacks?
I am referring to claims such as those made at this site. Basically they claim that a certain folding of the bill shows burning images of twin towers.
The new U.S. $20 dollar bill contains hidden pictures of the World Trade Center and Pentagon…
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Was WTC insured shortly before the attacks?
I heard that the buildings were insured just before terrorist attacks. Is that true? If yes, wouldn't this be an argument for conspirationists ?
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After 9/11 did the police find a fuel calculator with a copy of the koran belonging to one of the Hijackers?
The claim:
The first breakthrough came for investigators within hours of the attack when a motorist contacted them to say he had been involved in a squabble with some Arabs in the car park of Boston's Logan Airport, from where two of the planes…
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Were three journalists (Bob Simon, Ned Colt and David Carr) investigating a plausible relation between the CIA and 9/11?
Apparently these three journalists all died within a couple days of each other (Feb. 11 to 12, 2015). The implication of some rumours going around is that these folks were killed because they have evidence showing that the CIA had some involvement…
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Are the 3 World Trade Center towers the only steel-framed high-rises to collapse due to fire?
Since the events of 9-11 it has been claimed several times that no other skyscraper in history has ever collapsed from fire damage. It's usually used as a part of the argument that fire alone cannot bring down a steel-frames building.
The 911…
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Is this picture of UPS man with burning Twin Towers in the background genuine?
I saw a photo today of a UPS carrier walking on the street that did not seem bothered by Twin Towers burning behind him. Is it genuine?
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