Vile 9/11 conspiracy theorists claim September 11 was ‘insurance scam’ and a CIA ‘inside job’ on 17th anniversary of attack
HEARTLESS conspiracy theorists are using the anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity to spread more outlandish "truths" about the attack which left nearly 3,000 dead.
Deluded truthers insist the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City was a top secret "inside job" plotted by the CIA and carried out by the Israeli secret service Mossad.
Others bizarrely claim it was all part of a huge insurance scam masterminded by an American property tycoon to pocket billions of dollars.
The obsessed oddballs just refuse to accept the stone cold facts that the terror attack was carried out by extremists intent on harming America.
Instead they choose to believe the myriad of unfounded theories which have spread like wildfire over the past 17 years.
The attacks actually occurred when Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four United States flights before infamously crashing two into the Twin Towers.
Passengers of all four flights and thousands of others including firemen, officers, medics and innocent victims lost their lives. A total of 2,996 died and more than 6,000 were injured.
However, despite the scale of the tragedy, there are still dozens of wacky conspiracy theories floating around seventeen years on.
One unfounded and bizarre theory revolves around New York property tycoon Larry Silverstein who purchased the entire complex on a nine-year lease six months prior to the attacks.
The deal was worth $124million (£96million) - but he is said to have walked away with $4.5billon (£3.2billion) after taking out a huge insurance claim following the tragedy.
Not only that, Mr Silverstein also reportedly explicitly included "terrorist attacks" as a clause in the new agreement - which fact-fearing oddballs see as a sign of an inside job.
The entire conspiracy theory was uploaded to YouTube, where it has racked up more than 350,000 hits.
And some viewers online are convinced it is proof of the attack was orchestrated.
Another well-known conspiracy theory relates to the collapse of World Trade Centre Tower 7 which fell after the collapse of the neighbouring Twin Towers after they were hit by hijacked airliners.
The official report into the tragedy cites flaming debris from the burning skyscraper crashing into the 47-floor Tower 7 and sparking fires on several floors.
The heat generated brought the tower down, concluded the National Institute of Standards and Technology – making it the first steel skyscraper in the world to collapse because of fire.
In November 2016, a group of top engineers from the University of Alaska said “office fires” could not have caused its destruction.
Their verdict stoked theories that the World Trade Centre buildings were brought to the ground by controlled demolition explosions - orchestrated by the CIA.
Truthers also question why the US Air Force did not intercept any of the four hijacked planes before they hit their targets.
They claim that then-US Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the military to stand down and not to intercept.
Theorists have long questioned how an amateur pilot was able to fly a commercial plane into the headquarters of the world's most powerful military, 78 minutes after the first report of a possible hijack, without leaving any traces.
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Based on this question, they claims that instead of a Boeing 757, the Pentagon was in fact struck by a small missile or unmanned drone, or even a significantly smaller aircraft.
Amongst the most absurd claims made by conspiracy theorists include saying the planes were not real.
They suggest that the “planes” that hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were missiles surrounded by holograms that were made to appear as planes.
However, while this is a popular theory, it fails to take into account the missing planes, passengers and hijackers.