What really happened to the World Trade Center?

Article originally published 2023-09-26

In this review, Freedom News takes a closer look at the theories surrounding what happened to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This does not imply a position for or against any theory, but simply draws attention to the fact that there are several perspectives on what happened.

The events of 11 September 2001 shook and changed the world, as images of the smoking twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were broadcast around the world.

This was the start of the huge ”war on terror” that left millions of people dead and many countries devastated.

As a result of the enormous fear of terrorists, states were able to impose extensive restrictions on our rights and freedoms.

In addition, a fear of terrorist crimes spread rapidly, resulting in the introduction of massive surveillance of ordinary people.

But what actually happened 22 years ago is a matter of debate and some believe that the attack did not come from outside at all, but was in fact a false-flag operation led by the US itself.

It has been 22 years since the attacks on the World Trade Center in the United States, when 2,996 people lost their lives, 19 of whom were allegedly terrorists.

Freedom News published an article on the anniversary describing the media's picture of what happened. But the truth is that there are many questions and not everyone is equally convinced that it happened in the way the media described.

In this video, we will take a closer look at theories other than those reported by the media.

Were the towers blown up from the inside?

One theory is that the towers were in fact blown up by planted bombs.
If it is, then the question is. Why were the towers blown up?

The basis for questioning the official version that it was the crashing planes that caused the massive explosions is that the crashes themselves and the subsequent fires were not sufficient to weaken the structure of the buildings to the point where they could collapse in the way that has been described.

Much higher temperatures would be needed to melt the steel beams.

This criticism has backing by a large number of very heavyweight experts in the field. The whole 2,400 experts in these areas have been critical of the official explanation that it was the planes that caused the structure to collapse.

What is not usually mentioned in the media is that another building collapsed close to the twin towers. The smaller skyscraper 7 World Trade Center was right next to it, but was never hit by an airplane. Nevertheless, the building collapsed a few hours after the twin towers.

But what was it that caused the collapse?

In a well-known scientific article published in 2009, shows that traces of explosives have been found in the rubble, confirming the theory that the towers were blown up.

Several suspects

However, it would take a large amount of explosives to achieve the devastating blast effect necessary to destroy a building as large as the World Trade Center.

Then comes another question. Who would have the ability and capacity to get all those explosives into the building.

There are three different alternative actors that could be behind the attack:
1. the Islamist network Al-Qaeda.
2. the US itself through the CIA intelligence service
3. Israel, one of the United States' main allies in the Middle East.

As for the theory that the Americans themselves were behind the attack, the motive was that the US wanted to use the attack to justify a war of aggression against other countries.

A good example of when this happened is when Iraq was falsely accused of having weapons of mass destruction to justify a war against Iraq.

Were the US authorities prepared for an attack?

There are two scenarios for how the attack could have happened: either the Americans themselves smuggled in explosives and caused the devastating explosion. Or US intelligence knew the attack was coming but let it happen.

That the US authorities would have known about the attack in advance, but allowed it to happen in order to exploit public opinion for both war and surveillance, is reminiscent of the accusations against President Franklin Rosevelt, President of the United States during World War II.

According to these allegations, he knew about the Japanese attack on the naval base Pearl Harbor 1941 in advance, but allowed it to happen to gain popular support for entering World War II against Japan and Germany.

Was Israel involved?

As for Israel's role in all this, it is said to have been about getting the US to enter the Middle East militarily and fight the Arab and Muslim regimes that were declared enemies of Israel.

One of the indications used for this is that five Israeli agents were allegedly arrested by the FBI in connection with the attack, while filming the smoking towers and acting ”suspiciously” at the scene, including applauding as the towers collapsed.

Who benefited from it?

If we then turn to the motives of the people who would be prepared to carry out such an attack, which would then pave the way for major restrictions on our freedoms through bloody wars, it becomes difficult to find an answer.

But an important question we need to ask is: Who benefited from what happened? And it is clear that there are several actors who profited from the attack and were extremely quick to set in motion several processes that could only have been planned in advance.

Freedom sacrificed for security

What can be said is that a huge machinery was quickly rolled out in several areas in the United States. Among other things, the law ”Patriot Act” emerged already after 1.5 months after the attack.

This law gave the US authorities the right to conduct extensive surveillance of their own population.

It was also given the right to arrest and detain non-American citizens accused of terrorism without trial and hold them in the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, a place notorious for torture and serious abuses. And this by a country that claims to be the ”defender of democracy”.

All this has been justified by an imaginary threat posed by the terrorists, causing enormous fear among people all over the world.

The fact that terrorists can strike at any time made people walk with a constant fear and even gratefully accept to give up their freedom for some security.

The beneficiaries of this fear were precisely terrorists, whose aim is to create fear, but also governments anxious to strengthen control over their populations!

A war machine was awakened

Barely a month after the attacks, on October 7, 2001, the US war machine kicked into gear when it entered Afghanistan, claiming that those responsible for the terrorist attacks, Al-Qaeda and its leader, Osama Bin Laden, were being hidden by the Islamist Taliban regime.

The consequences were a 20-year occupation, which only created a shattered country, immense suffering for the Afghan people, and a thoroughly corrupt regime, which became so hated that the Taliban were welcomed back when the US pulled out in 2021.

Not to mention the massive migrant flows that have made their way from Afghanistan, due to the invasion, to Sweden and elsewhere.

The same thing happened again in 2003, when the US and its allies invaded Iraq and overthrew its leader, Saddam Hussein, which has long been an outspoken enemy of the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

With false claims of weapons of mass destruction and links to terrorists, a massive invasion was launched, which would also last for years and cause millions of deaths. In addition to getting rid of Saddam, the invasion was also about taking control of Iraqi oil production.

Abuse was allowed

These invasions have sanctioned outright war crimes in this war on terror. In 2010, Wikileaks revealed how US soldiers gunned down unarmed Iraqi civilians.

2014 bombardment a US drone attacked a wedding in Yemen, as terrorists were believed to be present. As a result, 12 wedding participants were killed and 14 injured.

In addition to the suffering and destruction justified by the events of September 11, 2001, there has also been big money to be made from the wars. Freedom News has previously described how financial elites, such as BlackRock and Vanguard, are the largest owners of companies producing weapons for the US military.

A large and protracted war means large orders from these companies, with money going directly to them. This is what prompted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to say in 2011 that these actors want ”a never-ending war, not a forwardprosperous war”.

Or as a representative of BlackRock recently put it expressed it: ”War is so damn good for business”.

Several benefited from it

It is not possible to say with certainty who or what is really behind this. But what we can say is that there are several people who profited greatly from this:

1. the American state that secured control over its population;
2. the US military and intelligence services, which were given new resources and powers;
3. the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia got rid of Saddam Hussein and expanded their military presence in the Middle East, while the US gained control of Iraqi oil;
4. large companies that profited greatly from arms sales; and
5. not least terrorists, who became a clear and present factor in the domestic politics of several countries.

What can also be said with certainty is that the price for this has been paid by millions of deaths, both in the attack itself and the subsequent wars, the endless sums of taxpayers' money pumped into the war effort, and the populations who have lost, and sometimes even willingly given up, their own freedom for a little security.