Controversial aspects of the September 11, 2001 attacks
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[edit] * 1 The attacks
[edit] o 1.1 Casualties
[edit] o 1.2 Damage
[edit] o 1.3 Rescue and recovery
- A passport of one of the hijackers was reported found intact near the WTC.[1] Rescue workers sifting through the tons of rubble discovered the passport, belonging to one of the suspected hijackers, a few blocks from where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.[2]; a passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed.[3] It is not definitely clear whether the passport was found before or after the collapse, or not at all.
The four black boxes of the two planes were never acknowledged to be found. It is rare that black boxes are not recovered in a plane crash.
[edit] * 2 The attackers and their motivation
[edit] o 2.1 Planning of the attacks
[edit] o 2.2 The hijackers
[edit] o 2.3 Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden is listed, but only for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. There is no mention of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or the attacks on the USS Cole in October 2000, both of which he is widely believed to have orchestrated. And forget about Sept. 11.
The reason? Fugitives on the list must be formally charged with a crime, and bin Laden is still only a suspect in the recent attacks in New York City and Washington.
"There's going to be a considerable amount of time before anyone associated with the attacks is actually charged," said Rex Tomb, who is head of the FBI's chief fugitive publicity unit and helps decide which fugitives appear on the list. "To be charged with a crime, this means we have found evidence to confirm our suspicions, and a prosecutor has said we will pursue this case in court." [4]
[edit] o 2.4 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
[edit] o 2.5 Other al-Qaeda members
[edit] o 2.6 Motive
[edit] * 3 Reactions
[edit] o 3.1 International reaction
[edit] o 3.2 Hate crimes
[edit] o 3.3 Muslim American reaction
[edit] o 3.4 Conspiracy theories
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- Andreas von Bülow, arguing in his book that the US government mounted the September 11 attacks in a plot to win global domination, has gone further than Michael Meacher, Tony Blair's former environment minister, who was widely criticised for claiming that America knowingly failed to prevent the attacks. Von Bülow, a former research minister in the German government, believes that September 11, when more than 3,000 people died, was staged to justify the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.[5]
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add the French minister of Housing and her opinion.
- Yukihisa Fujita, a member of Japan's second largest political party, questions the Japanese efforts in the War on Terror because of the many questions that remain about the September 11 attacks.[6] [7]
[edit] * 4 U.S. Government response
[edit] o 4.1 Immediate national response
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Vice-president Dick Cheney stated[8] that he was watching the second tower being hit live (9:02:59 a.m. local time). He tells that shortly after, he was evacuated to the underground shelter in the White House, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Cheney himself testified before the 9-11 Commission that he was not in the Command loop until 9:58 AM, but according to testimony[9] [10] video 1.8 MB from his collegue, Norman Mineta, the acting Secretary of Transportation, he was already in the command centre and giving orders when the plane that was to hit the Pentagon at 9:37 AM was still 50 miles out.[11] [12] Norman Mineta's testimony was not included in the final report of the Commission.
Cheney refused to testify under oath, as did the President, and his predecessor Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Cheney and Bush also insisted on testifying together instead of separately, against the Commissioners' request. The reason for this given by George Bush was: "It's a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9/11 commission is looking forward to asking us, and I'm looking forward to answering them."[13] In december 2001 the President declared[14] that being in Sarasota, Florida, he had watched the first airplane strike live on television, just prior to entering a classroom to monitor a childrens' reading programme.[15] After being told about the second plane striking, he and his staff continued the session with the children (estimates for this vary between five and nine minutes), while the third plane was being hijacked and nearing the Pentagon. In fact, some of Bush’s Secret Service agents had watched the second crash live on television in an adjacent room. [Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/10/02] per [16] Bush left the school between 9:30 and 9:35, just a few minutes before the Pentagon was struck.
