Was 9/11 an Inside Job?

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Was 9/11 An Inside Job?

Americans over Eighteen

For the last ten years, there has been a long running debate over whether or not the United States knew of, or was behind the attacks on its own soil regarding September 11th, 2001. Research, eye-witness accounts, and testimonies from government officials point strongly to the theory that the United States and other private companies sought to gain from the attacks on 9/11 and knew prior to the events transpiring the magnitude they would take. Shoddy government reports, misleading information, incorrect media coverage, and contradicting statements made by the government and officials during the time of the 9/11 cleanup and months to follow, have done little more than to fuel the fire for Conspiracy Theorists. I invite you to come along with me to dig deeper beyond the lies and provide you, the reader, with some facts and information in which you can form your own opinion over what transpired on September 11th and what we as a nation stood to gain from it—or so we thought.

September 11th, 2001, a day that will never leave the memories of Americans and most countries world-wide. On this date, the media was full-swing to cover the events that transpired as American Airlines Flight 11 slams into the towering north face of World Trade Center building 1, striking between floors 93 and 99 at 8:46 am (All Times and Lapsed Periods from Wikipedia Timeline) in New York City. Exactly seventeen minutes later, American Airlines Flight 175 strikes the south face of World Trade Center building 2 and it is then, America and its media-coverage realize that this is a terrorist attack and panic sets in amongst the nation. Thirty-four minutes later, another plane strikes, this time at the Pentagon in what many regard as the most controversial plane-hit of the day. Then, twenty-two minutes after this, and only fifty-six minutes after the initial strike of WTC building 2, the tower does the unthinkable and begins to collapse down upon...