Alternative theories to the events of 9/11

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Several alternative theories to the events of 9/11 have emerged which contradict the official account of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Those who question the official story identify themselves as being part of the "9/11 Truth Movement," and their claims typically include suggestions that individuals in the government of the United States or Israel knew of the impending attacks and refused to act on that knowledge.

Some have suggested the attacks were a false flag operation carried out with the intention of stirring up the passions and winning the allegiance of the American people in order to facilitate military spending, support Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the restriction of civil liberties, and/or a program of aggressive and profitable foreign policy.

Several members of the 9/11 Truth Movement claim that the collapse of the World Trade Center was the result of a controlled demolition and/or that United Airlines Flight 93 was shot down. Some also contend that a commercial airliner did not crash into the Pentagon; this position is debated within the 9/11 Truth Movement, with many who believe that AA Flight 77 did crash there, but that it was allowed to crash via an effective stand down of the military.^[1]

Published reports by the National Institute of Standards and Technology do not support the controlled demolition hypothesis.^[2]^[3] U.S. officials, mainstream journalists and independent researchers^[4]generally accepted the conclusion that Al Qaeda is solely responsible for the attacks and the resulting destruction, and civil engineers generally accept the mainstream account that the impacts of jets at high speeds in combination with subsequent fires, rather than controlled demolition, led to the collapse of the Twin Towers.^[5]