If this was an inside job like many believe, those that perpetrated the whole thing aren't likely going to ever be prosecuted until the afterlife.
I found the "inside job" story plausible, after watching that old "Zeitgeist" doc - there did seem to be many discrepancies with the official story.
However, in the following few years most of the discrepancies were thoroughly debunked, things like the non-melting steel (steel does weaken when subjected to heat, even below its melting point), windows blowing out (air pressure in the building) etc. I was in an architects office when it happened, and even after the first plane hit, everyone in there was saying "that building
will fall". They had extensive knowledge of the structure of the buildings.
The main reasons I think the "false flag" theory is nonsense are:
A. A huge amount of people would need to be involved, I would say at least 50, realistically hundreds. There would be a huge risk that someone would leak some info, and I don't think the risk would warrant the benefits. If any info was released, or sold to the press, there would be a full blown US revolution.
A lot of people might have been necessary to do the job right, but the evidence seems to be that it wasn't done right. It was an amateurish job by overconfident people who aren't used to having their work scrutinized. Also, the U.S. could not be driven to revolution by any scandal. Like any country it needs expensive food or similar for outright revolution.
No, my point is there would be a chance of eg. someone leaking documents which were concrete evidence (similar to the docs Snowden leaked). No concrete evidence for a false flag attack has been found, only vague circumstantial connections.
In my opinion, no intelligent person (be that CIA/MOSSAD/Illuminati/reptilian etc etc.) would undergo an operation with such huge risk of repercussions, when there would be safer ways of achieving the same end result (excuse for Iraq invasion, defence contracts, claiming oil etc.). Why plan such an intricate plot involving passenger planes/missiles/fake flights/co-ordination between multiple gov departments? There would be easier ways to do it, doesn't add up IMO.
B. If the buildings were blown up, then why involve planes at all? Why not just blow them up and say it was the terrorists? It seems to me that there would be many easier ways to create a similar situation, without such complexities.
World trade center towers in NYC were bombed previously by the FBI. The person who placed the explosives tape recorded his FBI handler giving him instructions. The details have been professionally obscured on the internet, including Wikipedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Salem , but you can find details of the truth online if you look.
That may be so, not sure how that relates to my point, which was: Why have a plan with unnecessary kamikaze passenger planes, if the buildings were rigged to blow up anyway? Likewise, why rig the buildings to blow if you know planes are going to fly into them? Hundreds of people would still have died even if the buildings hadn't fallen, and the buildings would probably have been demolished later, achieving similar end results. Seems overly complex to me, I don't buy it.
C. Why bother with the Pentagon? The gov wouldn't gain any advantage by blowing up the pentagon, as well as the WTC. I think the reason that there wasn't much info on the Pentagon incident at the time was due to embarrassment and security protocols - ie the US didn't want to admit that a plane could crash into it, and were scared of the repercussions of releasing too much info too early.
That makes no sense.
My point relates to the first one. If you are planning to fly planes into and blow up the WTC, (eg to gain support for wars, claiming of oil-rich land, to cause fear in the population for your own gain etc.), then why would you also blow up the Pentagon with a plane/missile/whatever? I don't see how that really adds to the effect of the WTC incident? If there was a conspiracy, this part of the plan would increase the risk and expense of the plan hugely, without any significant change to the public perception of the incident.
D. As I said earlier, the vast majority of the initial evidence for a false flag op has been thoroughly debunked, it seems that the only thing the conspiracy theorists say now is "But what about Building 7??". As far as I'm concerned, it's totally plausible that the building was affected by debris which caused it to fall. Unlikely maybe, but plausible, and certainly not a key piece of evidence for any conspiracy theory.
A number of silly aspects of a possible conspiracy were put forth, and those were quickly debunked. In fact it kind of looks like some of the sillier notions were put out there just to discredit all the legitimate issues by association. All of the substantial questions raised remain undebunked.
Hmm, well the main ones IMO were the steel melting, the window blowouts, the "free fall" collapse, and the hole in the Pentagon. All these have been explained as far as I'm concerned, and all that remains are vague discrepancies. None of these discrepancies are strong enough evidence for the incredible story that some people believe.
I do believe however, that the US capitalized on the incident for gains of power and wealth. In the documentary "Why We Fight"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/, it explains how some Americans believed that the first Iraq war against Saddam was retaliation for 9/11, even though Saddam actually had nothing to do with it. I think 9/11 gave an excuse for a larger military-industrial complex in the USA.
I believe with about 95% certainty that it was the radical muslims, and probably less than 1% that it was the US.
Most people disagree with you.
Most people are idiots.