“Dear fellow citizens, today our way of life, our freedom, has come under attack.” For many Americans, these words from President George W. Bush meant that their lives would never be the same. On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in history when 19 al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and turned them into powerful weapons. Two airliners crashed into the twin towers of the World shopping center in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon building, and another crashed in Pennsylvania. As a result, almost three thousand people died. Lenta.ru looked into how America has changed 15 years after the terrible attack and why its consequences are still felt to this day.

“Something is wrong... We are going down sharply. I see water, I see houses. We're flying low, very low, too low. Oh God, we're flying too low. “Oh God,” American Airlines Flight 11 flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney didn’t have time to finish her sentence as the plane rammed the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Audio recordings of the last words of passengers doomed to death, photographs of skyscrapers engulfed in flames and people jumping out of them shocked American society. Citizens demanded immediate punishment for those who dared to attack the United States, and the authorities wanted the same.

Washington goes to war

The intention to deal a crushing blow to terrorism was expressed by George W. Bush in his first speech on September 11, 2001. “America, together with its friends and allies, unites with everyone who wants peace and security throughout the world. Together we will win the war against terrorism,” he assured the Americans. His approval rating soared to 90 percent, and Bush took decisive action.

Just three days later, Congress gave the president the authority to use the U.S. military to retaliate against those who “planned, approved, carried out, or helped carry out” the 9/11 attacks and those who provided safe haven to terrorists.

On September 20, Bush issued an ultimatum to the authorities of Afghanistan, demanding the extradition of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and all those involved in the terrorist attacks who were hiding in the territory of this state. Kabul has asked for evidence of bin Laden's guilt, promising to try him in an Islamic court. No evidence was provided. And the founder of al-Qaeda himself denied involvement in the terrorist attack (Osama admitted that it was he who planned the attack only in 2004).

On October 7, US Air Force aircraft carried out the first strikes on Afghan targets, kicking off the longest war in US history. In November, Kabul was taken and the Taliban were pushed into the mountains. But this campaign could only be called partially successful: bin Laden was never captured.

The justification for the invasion of Afghanistan was beyond doubt among the world community. Bush's decision was supported by many leaders, including Vladimir Putin. But even the US NATO allies condemned the American president’s intention to send troops into Iraq. Nevertheless, in 2003, American soldiers entered the territory of this state and, encountering almost no resistance, overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein. Subsequent events did not develop at all as planned in Washington. Many world leaders, as well as experts, warned that Hussein's removal would plunge Iraq into chaos and turn it into an Islamist stronghold - and that is exactly what happened.

After footage of the abuse of captured Afghans and Iraqis in the Bagram and Abu Ghraib prisons spread around the world, the attitude towards the Americans, who were not particularly loved in the Middle East before, deteriorated catastrophically. Many Muslims began to perceive them as new crusaders, enemies of Islam. The ranks of jihadists were rapidly growing. One of the consequences of Bush Jr.'s reckless decision to attack Iraq is the emergence of the most famous terrorist group of our time: the Islamic State (IS).

The current American leader, Barack Obama, promised to bring military personnel home during his first election campaign. But he fulfilled his promise only partially: in July 2016, he was forced to leave almost eight and a half thousand soldiers in Afghanistan to help local security forces. Troops were withdrawn from Iraq, but this allowed IS jihadists to capture almost half of the country.

“There are more suicide attacks against Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Muslim countries every month than in the entire period of world history before 2001. From 1980 to 2003, there were 343 suicide bombings worldwide, and at least 10 percent of these attacks were inspired by anti-Americanism. Since 2004, there are already more than two thousand of them - and nine out of ten are directed against the Americans and their allies,” wrote American political scientist and professor at the University of Chicago Robert Pape in 2010 in Foreign Policy magazine.

It's been 17 years since Nine-Eleven, when three skyscrapers collapsed in New York. No, I was not mistaken. Not two, but three, but for some reason they prefer not to remember the third. And when the third plane crashed into a wing of the Pentagon that was being repaired, and strangely almost self-destructed, and another one crashed in the desert. And these are not all the mysteries of the tragedy that happened.

So, on the morning of September 11, 2001, some unknown persons hijacked four Boeing planes (two in Boston, one in Washington and another in Newark), after which the first two planes crashed into the New York skyscrapers WTC-1 and WTC-2, the third hit the Pentagon wall, and the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The two WTC towers, attacked by planes, suddenly collapsed completely within an hour and a half in a very strange way, folding neatly inward. Also, for some reason, the neighboring skyscraper WTC 7 completely and neatly collapsed, although no planes hit it.

Only a few days passed after the “terrorist attacks” before the first official version of everything that happened was ready and the perpetrators were named. Osama bin Laden, who directed this action from Afghanistan, and, of course, his brainchild Al-Qaeda, were immediately named as the culprit. Also, the names of all 19 hijackers were immediately named, who abandoned their cars near the airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions in Arabic “How to fly an airplane,” and in the wreckage of the planes they found the miraculously preserved passports of the “terrorists.” It followed from this that we urgently needed to start bombing Afghanistan and invading Iraq.

In the fall of 2002, a special commission was created under the loud name “National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States.” It was chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. The commission included former employees CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and other government agencies. All actions and the course of the investigation were led by Philip Zelikow, a member of the administration of President Bush Jr., who also worked under Bush Sr.

The official version indicated above took its final form on July 22, 2004, when the above-mentioned commission of 83 people completed a report of 585 pages. The report of the Keene Commission confirmed the above version, which even now remains the only and irrefutable one.

Now let us present some facts that show how US intelligence agencies are able to “investigate” and obtain the desired and obviously announced results.

Cell phones

The official report claims that all information from the Boeing that crashed into the World Trade Center skyscraper was transmitted to the ground via mobile phones. In particular, flight attendant Betty Ong spoke for 23 minutes, and flight attendant Madeline Sweeney - 25 minutes. Sweeney's last words were: “I see water! I see buildings! .

And now a fact that the authors of the official report “forgot” about. In 2001, cell phone calls were not possible from an airplane flying at speeds over 700 km/h.

The fact is that when the phone enters the broadcast area of ​​the base station, or “cell,” a so-called “greeting” occurs, which in 2001 took at least eight seconds. The "welcome" system was not designed for driving at a speed of 700 km/h and is possible at maximum speed at 150 km/h. And only in 2004, Qualcomm, together with American Airlines, developed a system that, using a satellite, provides calls to cell phones from an aircraft on which a special mobile base station is installed. On July 15, 2004, a trial run of the system was carried out, after which it began to function.

Cheating with speed

The official report of the Keene Commission provides a diagram of the alleged movement of Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, according to which the plane covered the final straight leg from Trenton to New York in four minutes.

Boeing traffic diagram for New York

And now a fact: The distance between Trenton and New York in a straight line is 85 kilometers. For good measure, you can even consider it equal to 80. According to official data, the plane covered this distance in 4 minutes. Let's find the average speed of the airliner in this section: V = 80 km / 4 min = 20 km/min = 1200 km/h. We get the speed of sound.

Of course, the Boeing 767 was not supersonic. IN technical specifications The Boeing 767-200 is said to have a maximum cruising speed at an altitude of 12 km of 915 km/h. And this is only at an altitude of 12,000 meters, where the air density is five times lower than at sea level, and the airliner flew into the building at an altitude of several hundred meters. The same technical specifications say that the maximum permissible speed of the Boeing 767-200 (the so-called Vne - Velocity Never Exceed), exceeding which the plane will simply begin to collapse, is 0.86 the speed of sound, that is, about 1000 km/h. Therefore, even if the plane had managed to reach the speed of sound, it would have disintegrated long before Manhattan. That is, the official investigation invites everyone to believe in something that is purely physically impossible. So, another lie from the official investigation.

"Twins" could not collapse on their own

According to the official report, the hundred-ten-story skyscraper WTC-1 completely collapsed 1 hour and 42 minutes after the plane hit, and its twin WTC-2 - 56 minutes later. The reason, of course, is given as follows - the impact and subsequent fire that occurred after the Boeings hit the buildings.

But this is where some more equally amazing facts appear.

It turns out that the Geminis were designed in such a way that, in addition to the wind load, they could withstand the frontal impact of a Boeing 707, the largest passenger airliner in those years. In the early 1970s, Leslie Robertson, a building designer, calculated the effect of a Boeing 707 colliding with the World Trade Center tower. He reported the results to the New York Times, claiming that the towers would withstand the impact of a liner flying at a speed of 960 km/h, that is, having taken the blow of the liner, the skyscraper would remain standing without undergoing serious structural damage. In other words, the central frame and the remaining perimeter will withstand the additional load resulting from the absence of the demolished part of the load-bearing structures. It was with this safety margin that the “twins” were built.

Frank DeMartini, one of the leaders of the WTC project, confirms this idea: the building was designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 at maximum take-off weight. It was the largest aircraft of that time. I am sure that the building would have withstood even several airplane strikes, since its structure resembled a fine mosquito net, and the airplane is like a pencil that pierces this mesh and does not affect the structure of the rest of it.

The fire also could not destroy the skyscrapers. Here's proof that the official report is lying again:

So, the WTC-1 building withstood the first blow. However, in the next hour and a half, something happened as a result of the fire that caused the tower to collapse. By the way, this is the first and only case in world history when a skyscraper actually turns into a pile of ruins as a result of an hour and a half fire - this is according to the official version.

In the mid-1990s, two British firms - British Steel and the Building Research Establishment - conducted a series of experiments in Cardington to determine the impact of fires on steel-framed structures. In an experimental model of an eight-story building, the steel structures did not have fire protection. Despite the fact that the temperature of the steel beams reached 900 °C (!) with a critical maximum of 600 °C, in none of the six experiments did destruction occur, although certain deformations did occur.

In August 2005, John R. Hall Jr. of the National Fire Protection Association of the United States published an analytical work, “Fires in High-Rise Structures.” In particular, it provides statistics according to which in 2002 alone, 7,300 fires occurred in high-rise buildings, many of which were very intense and lasted for many hours, consuming more than one floor. Despite the casualties and significant damage, none of these fires resulted in collapses.

If that's not enough, here are a few more specific examples the most severe fires in recent decades:

On February 23, 1991, a fire broke out in the 38-story One Meridian Plaza building in Philadelphia. The fire started on the 22nd floor, spread to 8 floors and lasted 18 hours. As a result of this fire, many windows were broken, granite cracked and load-bearing walls sagged. Nevertheless, the building survived and not a single part of it collapsed.

On May 4, 1988, the 62-story First Interstate Bank building in Los Angeles caught fire. The fire lasted 3.5 hours, 4.5 floors burned out - from the 12th to the 16th. But the load-bearing structures survived completely, and secondary structures and several interfloor ceilings received only minor damage. The building survived.

On August 5, 1970, an explosion occurred in the 50-story building 1 New York Plaza and a fire broke out that lasted six hours. There were no collapses.

On October 17, 2004, a skyscraper in the Venezuelan city of Caracas caught fire. The fire broke out at the 34th floor, engulfed 26 (!) floors and lasted 17 hours. The building survived.

And finally, a fire in the same New York World Trade Center. On February 13, 1975, a fire occurred in the north tower on the 11th floor, as a result of which 65% of the floor was completely burned out. In addition, the fire spread down to the 9th and up to the 16th floors, however, without affecting office premises and limited to shafts inside the central frame. The fire lasted three hours, and despite its much higher intensity than September 11, 2001, the structure of the building was not damaged. Not only the central frame, within which the fire mainly spread, but also all the interfloor ceilings remained completely undamaged.

World Trade Center fire in 1975

And the 47-story World Trade Center 7 collapsed on its own... by accident.

The official report states that WTC 7 "collapsed" due to weakening of the supporting structures, despite the fact that no aircraft hit it.

As it turned out, very few people knew about the demolition of building No. 7 of the World Trade Center. Its destruction somehow went unnoticed against the background of the other events of that day. This 47-story skyscraper, which also bore the name Salomon Brothers, housed the offices of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the 1RS tax service (according to the Online Journal, with a huge amount of incriminating evidence, including the infamous Enron), counterintelligence USA, the stock exchange (with evidence of stock fraud), as well as various financial institutions. Its collapse occurred at approximately 17:20 New York time, and several rather interesting incidents are associated with it.

FEMA claims that this building collapsed for the same reasons as the “twins” - due to weakening of the supporting structures. But why? The plane did not hit him. There were no fires raging there - only in three places were there small local fires: on the seventh, twelfth and twenty-ninth floors. If we remember the diagram of the entire WTC, then building No. 7 is the farthest from the “epicenter”, separated from the main complex by a street. Where did he get the damage? The report is silent about this.

This small fire allegedly caused the complete destruction of the WTC-7 building

And the most “truthful” thing in the world, the BBC, even reported about the collapse of WTC-7 in advance.

Indeed, the report from the British television channel BBC looks unique. In a television news broadcast that aired at 10:00 London time, that is, 17:00 New York time, the presenter told viewers that the World Trade Center 7 building in New York had collapsed. But there were still 20 minutes left before it collapsed. Moreover, the channel's correspondent Jane Standley, in her live report from New York, talked about the collapse of WTC-7, while being in front of it. A rare photograph shows exactly this moment - the WTC-7 building is indicated by arrows. The caption at the bottom of the screen reads: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building next to the World Trade Center also collapsed."

BBC reports on the destruction of WTC 7

However, at some point, apparently, the television crew realized what had happened, and at 17:14 the picture of the broadcast from New York was suddenly distorted by interference, and after a few seconds it completely disappeared.

How else can this incredible “blunder” be explained if not by the presence of a pre-written script? Is it possible that they planned to demolish the building a little earlier, but they simply did not have time to convey information about the delay in this mise-en-scène to London in a timely manner, and the British continued to follow the script. So they got the press release before all this happened? But from whom and how?

Of course, such an incident raised a lot of questions for the BBC television channel. However, news chief Richard Porter explained it this way: mysterious story: “We are not part of a conspiracy. Nobody told us what to talk about or what to do on September 11th. No one told us in advance that the building was going to fall. We have not received a press release or a script for what is going to happen."

It turns out that if no one told them anything in advance, it means that they themselves, on their own initiative, told about the collapse of the building, which would happen in 20 minutes. But we read further: “We do not have the original recording of the September 11 reports - not because of a conspiracy, but because of confusion.” The news recording of one of the most important days in the history of the TV channel was suddenly lost.

Dead “terrorists” turned out to be alive

Official list of "hijackers"

The list was accompanied by the following comment: “The FBI is absolutely confident in the accuracy of the identification of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the September 11 terrorist attacks. In addition, the 9/11 investigations have been thoroughly reviewed by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States and jointly by the Senate and House of Representatives. None of these checks raised the slightest doubt as to the identities of the nineteen hijackers."

On September 23, 2001, the British BBC news agency unexpectedly reported that Walid al-Shehri, a citizen Saudi Arabia and the named hijacker of Flight AA11, is currently alive, well and doing well in Casablanca, Morocco. The Saudi Arabian Embassy confirmed that he studied at flight school in Daytona Beach, Florida. He left the United States in September 2000 and works for Royal Air Morocco. This is further confirmed by the Associated Press, according to which Walid al-Shehri appeared at the American embassy in Morocco: “The FBI released his photograph, which was circulated in newspapers and television news around the world. This same Mr. al-Shehri showed up in Morocco, thereby proving that he was not a member of the suicide pilot team.” Total, minus one.

Weil al-Shehri (AA11) is also alive and well. He works as a pilot and his father is a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Bombay. The Los Angeles Times, in an article dated September 21, 2001, reported that the head of the information center of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, Gaafar Allaghani, confirmed that he personally spoke with both father and son. Total, minus two.

Abdulaziz al-Omari (AA11) lost his passport while studying in Denver, which he reported to the police. He currently works as an engineer at Saudi Telecom. The Telegraph newspaper on September 23, 2001 quotes him: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw myself on the FBI lists. They showed my name, my photograph and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I'm here. I'm alive. I have no idea how to fly an airplane. I had nothing to do with any of this." Total, minus three.

Said al-Ghamdi (UA93), a Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot, was in Tunisia at the time of 9/11, training with 22 other pilots to fly an Airbus 320 aircraft. The Telegraph quotes him as saying: “The FBI has not provided any evidence linking me to the attacks. You can't imagine what it's like to be called a dead terrorist when I'm alive and innocent." Total, minus four.

Ahmed al-Nami (UA93) works as an office manager for Saudi Airlines in Riyadh: “As you can see, I am alive. I was shocked to see my name on the [terrorist] lists. I've never heard of Pennsylvania, where I happen to have hijacked a plane." Total, minus five.

Salem al-Hamzi (AA77) works at a chemical plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: “I have never been to the United States and have not left Saudi Arabia for the last two years.” Total, minus six.

Khalid al-Midhar (AA77) - computer programmer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: "I like to think there's some kind of bug." He was watching television when his friends started calling him to see if he was alive, the Chicago Tribune reported. Total, minus seven.

According to the Saudi Embassy in the United States, Mohand al-Shehri (UA175) and Satam al-Sukami (AA11) are also alive and well. Total, minus nine.

It wasn't until September 23, 2001 that FBI Director Robert Mueller said, "There are doubts about the identities of some of the hijackers. There is no legal evidence to support the identities of the hijackers."
But despite all the evidence of outright falsification with the names of “terrorists”, the same 19 original names appear in the official report of the “Keen Commission”.

Fake Bin Laden

And since now there is no evidence of the involvement of the “hijackers” in the terrorist attacks, this means that Al-Qaeda seems to have nothing to do with it, and there is no need to bomb Afghanistan.

But within a few days after the fall of the skyscrapers, the United States “suddenly” received a video recording of Osama bin Laden’s confession on December 14, 2001. She was allegedly found in a house in Jalalabad. And it is this record that forms the basis for the final conclusion of the official commission - the 9/11 terrorist attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden and, of course, al-Qaeda.

But what immediately attracts attention is that this video recording is of very low quality. And the man himself, who, according to the FBI, is bin Laden, is completely unlike him, and this is clearly visible even despite the poor quality. He is denser, he has a different shape of the nose, lips, eyebrows and cheekbones. The FBI file says that bin Laden is left-handed, but in the video he writes something with his right hand. In addition, on his finger there is a visible gold ring, and Islam, as you know, prohibits a man from wearing gold jewelry, and there is not a word about this in the dossier on bin Laden.

Two Bin Ladens

The photo shows two bin Ladens: on the left is the impersonator from the Jalalabad video, on the right is the real one. Even the naked eye can see that in the frame from the video and in the photo there are two completely different people, and the only similarities between them are the beard and turban. And again, the fantastic arrogance of the American intelligence services is striking, which did not even bother with such a “trifle” as using someone even a little like the real bin Laden.

As a result, realizing that there was also a mistake with bin Laden, the head of the FBI's investigative department, Rex Tomb, admitted: “The September 11 terrorist attacks do not appear in Osama bin Laden’s file, since there is no evidence of his involvement in the events of September 11.” .

On March 29, 2006, Vice President Richard Cheney also “split”: “We never claimed that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with the events of September 11th. We never had conclusive evidence."

However, in the official report of the Keene Commission, Osama bin Laden remains the main character, and the main material evidence is the already refuted video fake.

How evidence was destroyed

The steel remaining after the destruction of the frames of the World Trade Center towers was hastily sent for recycling, without even investigators being allowed to see it. More than 185 thousand tons of steel were eliminated from the “epicenter.” Firefighters reported to the US Congress that about 80% (!) of the steel debris had been removed, and investigators could not even request that the remains be preserved for analysis. In particular, the Chinese corporation Shanghai Baosteel Group purchased fifty thousand tons of steel from the collapse of the World Trade Center in the form of scrap at a price of $120 per ton. Thousands of tons of steel were sent to India for processing.

Such actions caused a wave of indignation among independent researchers and families of the victims, but the newly appointed mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg, who replaced Rudolph Giuliani in this post at the end of 2001, responded that there were other ways to investigate the tragedy September 11th. He also noted that "just looking at a piece of metal won't tell you anything."

Despite the protests of everyone who wanted to look at these “pieces of metal,” the removal of scrap was in full swing. The official reason for this rush was that it was “completely useless rubbish that only gets in the way.” Apparently, this “garbage” was so “useless” that its removal was carried out under the strictest control, and the trucks transporting steel debris from the “epicenter” area were equipped with expensive tracking devices so that, God forbid, this completely useless garbage would not end up anywhere other than smelting furnaces. The steel was transported from the “crime scene” in such speed limit, that even the specially created government commission BPAT (Building Performance Assessment Team - Commission for Assessing the Structural Characteristics of a Building), having the opportunity to only look at the remains, did not have the right to either study these same remains or familiarize themselves with the drawings of the buildings. Which, in fact, calls into question the very meaning of creating this commission.

Fire Engineering Magazine Editor-in-Chief Bill Manning, on behalf of firefighters, expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of government agencies to destroy evidence and completely exclude independent researchers from studying it: “We have reason to believe that “official investigations” ... are not "is nothing other than a blatant farce imposed on us by political forces whose main interests, to put it mildly, are very far from revealing the truth... The destruction of evidence must stop immediately."

Manning also stressed that the destruction of this steel is illegal: “The national fire investigation standard requires that all evidence from any fire in a building over 10 stories in height must be preserved, and there are no exceptions to this rule.”

And on September 26, 2001, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani banned all video and photography in the area of ​​the “epicenter.” One photographer, who chose not to be named, had his digital camera images erased by police and threatened with arrest if he appeared again, but was able to recover the erased images using PhotoRescue.

As a result, everything that could shed light on the “9/11 terrorist attack” was very quickly destroyed and not a single expert was able to familiarize himself with the “material evidence.”

Consequences of "terrorist attacks"

Less than two weeks after September 11, a very interesting piece of legislation (the so-called Patriot Act) was submitted to Congress for approval, which became law in just a month. And in early October 2001, the American invasion of Afghanistan began. This is an unprecedented pace of decision-making, preparation for their implementation and actual implementation. But the essence of these very measures causes large number questions.

Congress began considering the so-called anti-terrorism bill, called the Patriot Act, on September 24, 2001. This bill in general turned out to be very remarkable both in content and in the methods of its implementation.

First, it came to Congress for consideration without going through the channels prescribed by law, that is, without first discussing it under the authority of the Office of Management and Budget.

Second, then-Justice Secretary John Ashcroft demanded that Congress pass it within one week and without changes. Despite such strict and specific instructions, the controversial document still caused some debate - to the obvious dissatisfaction of the minister. Realizing that it would not be possible to “push” the bill through so easily, Ashcroft, at a joint meeting with the heads of the Senate and House of Representatives, warned that new terrorist attacks were probably coming, and Congress would be to blame if the law was not passed immediately. This was obvious blackmail, and the statement itself seemed absurd, but Congress was not ready to withstand such pressure from the minister.

Just in case, in order to finally “push through” the adoption of this act, two particularly stubborn congressmen - Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, who actively opposed it, received envelopes with anthrax spores in the mail...

Republican Congressman Ron Paul told the Washington Times that not a single congressman was allowed to even read the act. However, on October 12, it was approved by both houses of Congress, and on October 26, 2001, President Bush signed the document, thereby giving the Patriot Act the status of law.

What is the meaning of the Patriot Act? First, this act gives federal employees the right to search the home, workplace, computer and private property of citizens either without notifying them at all, or with notification after the fact, after the search has already been carried out.

Secondly, the CIA received an unlimited opportunity, without a court decision, to establish surveillance of its citizens if this is done “for intelligence purposes.” This includes listening to telephone conversations and tracking the user’s Internet activity. By the way, up to this point, the CIA's mission was to conduct intelligence activities exclusively in relation to foreign "elements."

Third, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have the right to demand medical, financial and academic records and government archives on any person only by presenting a warrant, which the court must issue if it is required for an investigation to protect against “international terrorism.” In this case, sufficient grounds for a search are not even required, and the organization to which the warrant was presented does not have the right to inform anyone that the FBI has requested this data. Including the one whose data was requested!

Fourthly, freedom of speech is de facto limited, because any careless phrase can now be regarded as a terrorist plot. According to this act, domestic terrorism includes “actions that attempt to influence the political course of a state through threats or violence.” As you can see, the concept of “domestic terrorism” is defined so vaguely that almost any political or other activist group (Greenpeace, for example) can fall under this definition. And anyone who disagrees with the actions of the government is not immune from this either. In addition to these acts, several more directives of a similar nature appeared.

P.S. And this is only a small part of the “evidence” that was found in the “most reliable” official investigation into the 9/11 tragedy. But this, in my opinion, is quite enough to understand what methods the United States uses to achieve its goals, having destroyed more than three thousand Americans. In continuation of the investigation, I will talk about the mysterious plane that crashed into the Pentagon and strangely disappeared, and about the other, no less mysterious planes of that terrible day - September 11, 2001.

The tragedy of September 11, 2001 horrified the world. Today, conspiracy theorists are asking the question: where did more than 1,000 bodies of victims of the terrorist attack who were at that moment in the buildings of the World Trade Center in New York go?

Remains turned to dust

At the time of the collapse, there were a total of more than 16 thousand people in both buildings. These were office and store employees, as well as ordinary visitors. More than 3,000 people were killed, according to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks against the United States report released in 2004.

The remains of 1,634 people were subsequently discovered. Of another 1,116 people, only small fragments of bodies remained. Along with them, some office furniture, telephones, computers and other inanimate objects also “evaporated.” Or rather, they turned into dust and fragments.

As one of those who carried out search work at the scene of the tragedy said, the largest piece of office furniture found at the epicenter of the tragedy was a small piece of a telephone keypad.

In plane crashes or severe fires, only isolated fragments of the bodies of the dead often remain. But this does not usually happen when buildings collapse. Bodies can be deformed, but they do not fall apart, and certainly cannot disappear without a trace. However, this is exactly what happened to those unlucky enough to find themselves inside the Twin Towers.

According to conspiracy theorists, the fact is that the towers did not collapse - they exploded. By the way, on the roof of the neighboring Deutsche Bank building in 2006, tiny fragments of human bones were discovered. All this fits into the picture of an explosion, not a collapse. When an explosion occurs, objects can actually disintegrate into small particles.

The most interesting thing is that many family members of the victims also believe in this version. Thus, Robert McIlvaine, the father of one of those killed on September 11, is convinced that the “terrorist attack” was only a cover for an explosion organized by government agencies. And William Rodriguez, who managed to survive the tragedy, even calls the collapse of the twin towers a “controlled demolition.”

Conspiracy theorists point to other suspicious facts. Thus, some of the video footage of the attack on the Pentagon was seized by FBI agents immediately after the attack. Also, no one has seen footage of the airliner crashing into the building, or its wreckage, or the remains of passengers, or the remains of luggage.

Also not made public official lists Boeing passengers, among whom there were supposed to be al-Qaeda terrorists (banned in Russia), video and audio recordings made on board the aircraft. The notorious black boxes were taken away by the same FBI men. Finally, part of the data was classified by US President George W. Bush.

"Controlled explosion" version

From time to time, more and more “evidence” appears that casts doubt on the official version of the 9/11 tragedy. For example, the organization “Engineers and Architects for Truth,” which includes about 2 thousand specialists in the field of engineering and architecture, argue that the Seventh 47-story tower of the World Trade Center, which collapsed after the Twin Towers due to a fire, could not have done so easy to collapse as a result of a ram, since this was prevented by reinforced concrete structures.

“The destruction of the Seventh Tower looks like the result of a controlled explosion,” said one of the organization’s members. “This technology requires weeks of preparation and can only be implemented according to a pre-planned scenario.”

It is curious that there were no people at all in the Seventh Tower at the time of the tragedy. In a survey conducted in 2013 in connection with the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attack, the sociological service YouGov found that 46% of Americans had no idea that not two, but three New York skyscrapers were destroyed on September 11, 2001.

At the same time, according to sociologists, 10% of respondents said that they did not believe in the results of the official investigation into the tragedy, and 38% doubted that the government made public the whole truth about those events.

They just burned out!

Meanwhile, as stated in the official government report from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), the collapse of the WTC building was caused by the destruction of the fireproof protection of the main supporting structures of the towers. The fires were also facilitated by the presence of “thermal substances” in the premises, which were part of the primer for the walls.

One way or another, the bodies of the victims, apparently, did not disappear anywhere, but simply disintegrated into separate fragments as a result of fires, which, in turn, were the result of damage caused by planes with terrorists on board. But there is always a place for conspiracy theories.

Residents of the United States are prone to theatricality, even to buffoonery in politics. To be convinced, just look at the struggle of candidates in the 2016 elections. Perhaps because during the entire “centuries-long” history not many significant events happened there: Civil war, accidentally opened Grand Canyon, supposedly flew to the moon, mistakenly awarded Obama the peace prize. The attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 stands out. This terrible tragedy, which changed a lot. After it, the United States turned from the world gendarme into an aggressor of the same scale. Everything happened and continues under the roar of shameless, shameless propaganda according to the behests of Goebbels.

What this terrorist attack actually represents, who is behind it, still represents.

Events and reasons

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) are the common colloquial name for the North and South Towers, the main buildings of the World Trade Center located in New York. The height of the 110-story buildings exceeded 400 m. In total, the Trade Center included 7 buildings. The attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 destroyed or damaged everything to such a state that it was necessary to carry out complete dismantling and demolition of all buildings and utilities.

It is officially recognized that the air attack on the World Trade Center buildings was carried out by terrorists who hijacked airliners of American companies carrying out regular flights. One plane crashed into the North Tower between the 93rd and 99th floors on the morning of September 11, 2001, and 17 minutes later a second one collided with the South Tower.

As a result of the applied aircraft damage to the building structures, fires that broke out and quickly spread, the twin towers collapsed less than 2 hours after the start of the terrorist attack, causing serious destruction of the buildings located around, heavy smoke, a dense dust cloud in the surrounding area, the death of some of the people in the buildings, as well as those who carried out emergency rescue operations to evacuate, extinguish fires, restore order, and provide medical assistance.

As a result, the following died:

• 2,606 civilians who were in the WTC buildings and in the surrounding area.
• 147 passengers and aircraft crew members.
• 343 New York City Fire Department employees, 60 police officers, 8 emergency medical personnel.

Along with the destroyed WTC complex, more than 20 buildings were damaged as a result of dust and toxic pollution from fires, some of which had to be demolished later, some were restored and repaired. In total, hundreds of thousands of square meters of office, administrative areas, a huge number of financial documents, reports, rare paintings, sculptures that were located in destroyed, burnt out buildings.

The question immediately arose - who blew up the twin towers on September 11, 2001? The official version of the US government sounds like this - the cause of the tragedy was the deliberate capture of those captured by terrorists belonging to Al-Qaeda, passenger aircraft, and the resulting fires led to the collapse of the most tall buildings countries.

In parallel, there are several versions, both supported by testimony, eyewitness footage, excerpts from official documents, expert opinions, and conspiracy theories, in the spirit of a global conspiracy theory. The first are caused by serious facts that are difficult to ignore, the second are based on conclusions and emotions.

In favor unofficial versions says the following:

• Externally, the fall of the twin towers looks like the demolition of buildings by a controlled, precisely timed explosion, indistinguishable from the planned destruction of other skyscrapers in the United States, which can be seen in numerous videos.
• Fires that broke out in two separate buildings could hardly have deformed reliable building structures, including metal ones coated with fire retardants, in less than 2 hours. By the way, North Tower already survived a fire in 1975, a terrorist attack
  1993 in an underground garage with a truck filled with 680 kg of explosives, which claimed lives but only slightly damaged the building.
• By the end of the same day, the 47-story, 200-meter building of the World Trade Center - 7, located far from the twin towers, collapsed. This was shown in live, and information about the explosion sounded before the event. Later, the official version of the collapse came into play - the same fires inside. Why they arose, why at least some traces of them are not visible (smoke, fire, partial destruction of solid glazing) - no comment, as the Americans like to say.
• Journalists clarify, asking for examples of the collapse of buildings made of reinforced concrete structures in the United States before or after the events of September 11
  2001, which occurred as a result of fires. There are none.
• The story of an entrepreneur who, a few weeks before the tragedy, took out building No. 7 of the World Trade Center for a long-term lease, insured it, including a separate item against a terrorist attack, and ultimately received considerable profit from the destruction of the buildings, smelled bad.
• Adding doubt to the information about the unprofitability of the tallest buildings in America, plans for their demolition, unrealized, including due to the complexity and high cost of such work in the dense, super-expensive buildings of Manhattan.
• Appointed by the administration of the U.S.A. to be the leader of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the al-Qaeda leader initially rejected such dubious fame. He even gave an interview to a Pakistani newspaper about it. Only in November 2001 did he agree to the prepared role. Protege of S.S.A. to fight the USSR in Afghanistan, by that time he himself declared America enemy No. 1 - for which he paid.

There are many doubters. Among them is Russian communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who said in 2012 that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York were planned by US authorities.

Implications and conclusions

The tragedy, which claimed many lives, became a turning point in both the domestic and foreign policy of the United States. The answer to the question of who blew up the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 will be the resolution of the situation with international terrorism, which threatens the foundations of the “free world.” Under the banner of fighting it, previously unknown opportunities opened up for America, covered by the fig leaf of democracy:

• Roughly suppress dissent within the country.
• Intervene in the policies of the governments of other countries, the work of banks, companies, dictating their will to them, backed by military and financial power.
• Overthrow unwanted governments, stage coups d'état with the wrong hands, generously sponsoring any opposition, including the Nazis, terrorists of all nationalities, against whom so much is officially talked about. Sad examples are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, ISIS banned in Russia.

The US desire to use in all corners globe the theory of “controlled chaos” to achieve only one’s interests is now no secret to anyone. The tragedy of September 11, 2001, which so “invigorated” the US economy, especially the Department of Defense with hundreds of bases around the world, the military-industrial complex, numerous and very expensive intelligence services, came, no matter how blasphemous it sounds, so opportunely that it causes serious doubts.

The attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 and the events that followed will continue to influence the course of world history for a long time to come. The true reasons that led to it will sooner or later become public.