Understand 9/11 : the Real Conspiracy

Understand the 9/11 Truthers and their Truth Movement

As much as I respect the sincerity of the people in the 9/11 Truth Movement, I believe that they are wrong about what happened on Sept. 11, 2000.

First of all, the Truthers choose to believe that George W. Bush was smart enough to organize, plan and carry out a conspiracy to mine the WTC and then explode the buildings, synchronized with the mass illusion of planes crashing into the buildings.  Sorry, but that idea is just too incredible to believe. The fact is that the 9/11 conspiracy is much easier to explain and the conspiracy is far simpler than you might imagine.

Here is what really happened.

In the months leading up to Sept. 11th, intelligence analysts at the CIA and the Pentagon discovered, from various channels, that Bin Laden planned an attack on the WTC and other buildings in Washington.  This attack would, most likely, involve hijacking aircraft and flying them into the WTC.  Bin Laden had already tried this in the Philippines, so it was no real stretch to think he would try it again here.  The analysts reported this up the chain of command to their bosses.

The CIA and the Pentagon intelligence people quickly realized that, although they knew when the attack would come (several Al Queda messages warned their agents to return home before 9/10) they could not effectively prevent the attack.  Security at most of the airports in the U.S. was just too lax.  No one could—they thought—prevent hijackers from boarding the planes with box cutters, knives, etc., and taking over the aircraft.  In their view, the 9/ll plot was inevitable.

Being unable to stop the attack, they realized that—what the heck—why not profit from the inevitable?  Over the next few months, many people with ties to the CIA and the Pentagon began playing the NY Stock Market.  Knowing when the attack would happen, it was a simple matter to plan for a crash of the Stock Market in the days following 9/11.   A savvy investor could make millions by placing options on various stocks, especially airline stocks and the stock of companies with offices in the WTC (in the days after 9/11, several European intelligence agencies reported that Bin Laden had also invested in the Stock Market, through various front companies).

Although not nearly as imaginative as the Bush-Did-It Conspiracy Theory, this scenario has the virtue of being simple and direct.  It involves the most basic of motives: Greed.

This loosely organized conspiracy (to financially exploit the 9/11 attacks) involves some of the wealthiest and most politically connected people in Washington, who had access to the CIA and the Pentagon intelligence insiders.  They made the commitment to invest in The Market, knowing that they stood to make millions, if not billions on the post-9/11 financial collapse.

Worst of all, the CIA and Pentagon analysts were pressured not to issue any kind of warning about the attack.  To do so would run the risk of Bin Laden delaying the attack (knowing the date of the attack was key to their plans) or perhaps even canceling the attack on the WTC in favor of some other target.  If this happened, they would probably lose millions of dollars.  Every effort was made to keep the impending attack a secret.

After 9/11 several agencies began investigations.  Some heard from European sources that Bin Laden had invested in the Stock Market, and so they began looking at trades on the New York Stock Exchange.  These investigations were quickly quashed and lists of questionable stock deals were suddenly suppressed and made “top secret.” 

The list of Americans who made tons of money off of 9/11 includes some of the most powerful and politically connected officials in Washington.  Something had to be done to stop any further investigations along these lines.  And so they quietly began encouraging the Bush-Did-It Conspiracy Theory.

It began as a sort of “Stalking Horse”—that is, could people be convinced that mines, drone aircraft, or some other method brought down the WTC?  Could the White House itself be blamed for the plot?  Ideally, the real plotters wanted an idea out there that various conspiracy buffs would explore, but which would not be taken seriously by the mainstream media.  The fact that the White House would, almost certainly, exploit 9/11 for their own political gains only made this new theory more plausible.

Unfortunately, no one in the White House—not even Chaney, himself—was clever enough to come up with such a brilliant idea, much less carry it out.  Planting mines in the WTC?  Flying drone planes into the buildings?  Frankly, Dick Nixon was a much smarter guy than Bush, and he couldn’t even get the Watergate burglary done without screwing it up.  So how could Bush’s buddies—none of them particularly bright—come up with and implement as complex and inventive a plan as this one?

The real conspiracy was to keep everybody quiet about the impending attack, while also investing--ie.  "shorting"--the Stock Market, knowing that the Market would crash on 9/12.  The follow up to this conspiracy was trying to blame George W. Bush for a crime that, frankly, he is just too dumb to have accomplished.