This is my conclusion, which is entirely without substantive backing. It is an intuition, based upon eliminating unlikely suspects. I had intended a longer treatment, but this post which I just put up here, is close enough. Basically, I just see Putin’s face when I ask myself imaginatively who was behind the attacks, and have towards the end of this piece compiled a bit of very shaky, unsubstantial “evidence”.
Anyway, this will, I think, be my final statement on 9/11, pending new thoughts or evidence.
I have thought long and hard about this, and have come to some conclusions:
1) Tower 7 could not possibly have fallen the way it did due to fires of unknown origin, which fed on “office furnishings”, which is the official explanation. I deal with this topic here: https://moderatesunitedblog.com//2010/11/tower-7-thoughts.html
That link includes a link to the longer discussion in the first sentence. I inventory everything that is in office towers, and there is nothing that would even stay lit for more than an hour or two, much less melt steel, much less cause a 47 story thicket of fire retardant treated steel beams to fall at the rate of gravity.
2) Logically, then, it must have been demolished with explosives, which is what people unaware of the context assume when first viewing the video.
3) If Tower 7 was brought down with explosives, there is no compelling reason to believe Towers 1 and 2 were not as well.
4) I see no reason to doubt that 4 planes were hijacked and flown into the buildings, per the standard narrative. What I believe to have been the case as far as New York is that United 93 was supposed to fly into Tower 7, which was the home of New York’s disaster response command center. United 93 took off from Newark, just across the river, and if it had been promptly hijacked, would have flown into Tower 7 within minutes of the other two planes.
5) The foregoing conclusions point to a large conspiracy, one with substantial logistical challenges: material requirements, personnel requirements, and money requirements. Given the organization that would have been necessary, and the enduring hatred of jihadists for the United States, it seems clear to me that people capable of such attacks, if they were in fact Muslim terrorists, would have been able to launch MORE attacks since 9/11, since they were and remain undetected, at least with respect to their role in this assault. Logically, this train of thought leads necessarily to the conclusion that Islamic extremists were NOT behind the placement of explosives. Once one realizes that the 19 hijackers could easily have been recruited on a “false flag” basis, then quite literally any large organization or government could be guilty. “Who?”, self evidently is the question.
6) In my view, this is potential an empirical question, if we treat this great catastrophe as the crime that it is, and investigate it like any other crime. What maintenance people were hired in the previous year? Have we interviewed them? Of course not. Where would the explosives have needed to be placed? Who had access to those places? Even now, at this distance, there are many questions the answers to which could potentially be found through a normal forensic police process.
7) In my view, George Bush played no role in this, nor Dick Cheney. Whatever their flaws otherwise, they are patriotic, decent people, and to believe that either had anything to do with this is to believe that both want the United States to be a totalitarian nation. I simply don’t buy that.
Nor do I believe that Israel could have benefitted in the SLIGHTEST from these attacks. We are their largest patron, and anything that weakens us, weakens them. They had no way of knowing we would go into Iraq, and Afghanistan was not a threat to them. Moreover, they were and are decent people, who hew to high moral standards. They had nothing to do with this.
The Chinese also use us as their largest source of income. We are by far their largest export market, and when economic conditions worsen–as one could reliably have predicted they would following such a disaster–they lose money. Clearly, Communists want global dominance, but China has a century long plan, which involves building their economy and military for a number of decades. Then or now would not be good timing.
You know who I believe was behind this? The Russians. The former head of the Soviet KGB had just taken over, in 1999, as head of the government. This is a man marinated in Communist ideology from the earliest age, whose grandfather was a cook for Lenin himself, and occassionally Stalin as well.
This is purely speculative–necessarily, of course–but in my view Putin thought that America was decadent, and that an attack of that magnitude would lead us into a permanent decline. He had been taught to think of us as soft and weak. Unlike the Russians, we had not been attacked on our soil since the War of 1812 (not counting Pearl Harbor). I think that he thought that by tearing us down, it would make it easier for him to continue the project of global domination to which he had long ago pledged his life.
He was sorely disappointed at our reaction. Rather than weakening us, it strengthened us, and that is why there have been no more such attacks. He is still circling, as the judoka he is, but he has been unable to find any clear openings to exploit.
I can offer little evidence for this, of course. A couple points that are vaguely supportive.
Pictures of the impacts were apparently taken by a Russian pilot:
http://englishrussia.com/2006/12/04/russian-pilot-making-photos-911-flying-above-nyc/
This guy should be interviewed. Obviously, the Russians would have wanted to be sure that the evidence of the planes flying in was incontrovertible.
Some of the most active conspiracy theorists are Russian. Here is a Russian General in effect blaming Capitalists for the sorts of plots the Communists hatched routinely. This is straight ahead use of the propaganda trick of blaming your opponent of the crimes you commit. An obvious example would be the constant use of the word Imperialist by the Soviet Empire. Here is the link:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1788
The Russians gave us a 9/11 Memorial: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/russian-911-memorial.htm
One can only speculate, but even Putin at some point may have felt regret. Alternatively–since this actually seems doubtful on the part of someone capable of rising to the top of an organization as ruthless as the KGB–it may have been intended to divert attention from themselves as the culprits.
These are my intuitions, which may or may not be valid, like any intuition. The core point I would like to make is that beyond any reasonable doubt there was a much larger conspiracy than we were told. All of the defects in response and investigation can easily, in my view, be attributed to a combination of cowardice and complacency. There need to be no omnipresent and omnipotent “them”, who control everything. The naked reality is that most people are stupid, frightened easily, and lazy.
Who, among government employees, wanted to be the one to shout out “This is a lie”? How many climate scientists deny the farcical notion of Anthropogenic Global Warming? Not enough, not nearly enough.
And self evidently, there well could be paid agents of foreign interests scattered throughout our poltical and military apparatus. They would be the ones at the meeting when things are discussed arguing that such a view is ridiculous, or potentially even the ones denying others permission to investigate. Clearly, there are scales and levels of conspiracy between total control, and no control. There are many variables, and few monoliths.
I lose no sleep over this. I don’t think the Russians have any more attacks planned, if this hypothesis even has any validity.
I will say, though, that there are clearly Communist sympathizers in the United States, some of whom have a lot of money, with the Rockefellers being the obvious example. These people can and have made efforts to influence our political process over many decades. As I see it, there is little we can do now to avenge the 9/11 attacks, but we must remain vigilant. The Tea Party is the best news I have seen in my lifetime, since it might be possible to get people in office who shrink the size of government, for the first time since FDR’s Fascist co-conspirators first got Socialism started in this country.