Ashley Johnson

Mrs. Link Hr.3

AP US HIstory Research Paper
5/31/14

The Controversies of 9/11

On September 11th, 2001, a group of Islamic extremists, Al-Qaeda,
hijacked four commercial airplanes with the goal to perform suicide attacks on
the United States. Over the years there has been severe controversy of what
actually happened on the event commonly referred to as 9/11. On that day, there
were approximately 3,000 lives taken. This included, 67 British people, around
300 New York firefighters, 260 passengers aboard the hijacked planes.
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Many
people argue that we know the truth about what happened on September 11th,
2001, although the impractical explanation of how the towers destructed, the
evidence proving it was more than likely a cruise missile that hit the pentagon,
and the facts that dont add up about the crash of flight 93 prove that it was
actually an inside job.
The most commonly believed story of what happened in the United States
is one a majority of people have already heard and possibly the only one they
have heard. This story says that flight 11 crashed into floors 93-99 of the North
tower of the World trade center. Evacuation begins in the South tower and is
quickly halted. An announcement was made within the south tower claiming that
it was secure and there was no threat, they were told to stay in the tower. Less
than ten minutes later flight 175 was spotted and an order of execution was
made, within minutes of the order being made the plane crashed floors 77-85 of
the South tower. Everyone on the floors where the plane had crashed had died.

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"How many people were killed on 9/11? - BBC." 2011. 4 Jun. 2014
<http://www.bbc.com/newsround/14854816>
After the crashes, the towers continued to perish, people within the building were
frantic and quickly realized that they were not going to survive what was
happening to them. While few tried all they could to survive many of them
resulted in jumping from the building even though they knew it meant certain
death. Approximately thirty minutes after the second crash into the world trade
center, flight 77 crashed into the pentagon. This resulted in the death of everyone
aboard the plane, 125 of the military and civilian personnel within the building.
Evacuation is the ordered for the white house, there was a fourth plane that was
said to be heading towards Washington D.C. The fourth plane, flight 93 had 40
passengers and crew aboard. The passengers were said to have learned about
the attacks on the world trade center. The group of people on the plane pulled
their forces together, gave up their life and fought against the hijackers. The
plane crashed in an empty field in Pennsylvania, killing only the people aboard.
Just about every detail of this story has been picked apart by people around the
world. Some pieces just dont add up, causing controversy on whether or not
American citizens know the true story of what happened on that fateful day.
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The most bizarre aspect of the events that happened on 9/11 was probably
how quickly the twin towers destructed. Structurally thinking, the collision of the
planes should not have caused the towers to collapse in the way that they did.
After the collapses began, it turned into a downward spiral effect. Once one level
collapsed, the one below it would also collapse within just ten to fifteen seconds
and so on. 9/11 truthers around the world debate whether the towers were nearly
at free fall or if they were simply in free fall. If the towers truly were in free fall it
would indicate a complete lack of resistance all together. Due to the steel
structure of the towers its been proven that theres no way resistance of the
collapse would not have been present. The collapsing of the towers could not
have only been due to the collision of the planes, but due to strategically placed

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"9/11 Memorial Timeline." 2011. 5 Jun. 2014 <http://timeline.national911memorial.org/>
bombs within the buildings.
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In efforts to prove that the towers collapsed due to
the planes, its said that the jet fuel from the plane caused a fire where impact
took place. Looking into this its found that the steel structure of the towers would
not have demolished the way they did because of a fire. The fire theory can also
be disproven by a picture taken of a woman who was standing in the impact hole
of the tower. The women standing was looking out and was not even the least bit
caught by the fire. The pictures proves that the fire was not started by the crash
of the plane.
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There are a plethora of reasons that prove that the crash into the pentagon
was an inside job. First of all, the area of the pentagon that was struck was
nearly empty due to renovations that had just taken place. The way the plane
was struck into the building was an extremely complex spiral maneuver that
would take a lot of practice to perfect. Its said that the hijacker that was flying the
plane had never flown a plane at all. The way the plane landed, theres no way it
could have been pure coincidence for it to land the way it did.
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There is also
extreme evidence proving that it wasnt actually a plane that crashed into the
building. It was has been said to actually be a cruise missile. The impact hole in
the pentagon does not add up to the dimensions it should be if it was truly a 757
plane. The landing wheel found at the site does not match one that would be
found on a 757 plane and is much more like one found on a cruise missile.
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Theres also evidence saying that flight 93 didnt actually crash in
Shanksville Pennsylvania. Pictures of the site only show small plane fragments of
a plane. There should be far more plane debris if there truly was a crash. There

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"The 9/11 Truth Movement: The Top Conspiracy ... - csicop." 2011. 4 Jun. 2014
<http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_9_11_truth_movement_the_top_conspiracy_theory_a_decade_later>
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"Top 10 Reasons 9/11 Was An Inside Job - Axiomatica." 2010. 5 Jun. 2014
<http://www.axiomatica.org/revealing-the-matrix/war-on-terror/295-top-10-reasons-911-was-an-inside-
job>
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"9/11 Inside Job: All Evidence, No Theories | 911Blogger.com." 2007. 5 Jun. 2014
<http://911blogger.com/node/5327>
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"Top 10 Reasons 9/11 Was An Inside Job - 2 - Axiomatica." 2010. 5 Jun. 2014
<http://www.axiomatica.org/revealing-the-matrix/war-on-terror/295-top-10-reasons-911-was-an-inside-
job?start=1>
was only a small hole, due to the size of the plane, the hole should have been far
bigger. Body parts were found six miles away from where the crash was said to
happen. The body parts couldnt have bounced that far away from the site. No
bodies were actually identified from the plane. This causes people to believe that
people on the plane were part of the conspiracy. Its claimed that the people that
were on the plane are still alive and well.
We may never know the truth about what happened on September 1st,
2001, although there will always be conspiracies over what actually happened.
Theorists have spent years trying to disprove what the government is telling us.
So far, nothing has been confirmed by the government. Due to the striking
evidence provided I believe that its very possible that 9/11 was an inside job.