President Biden issued an order this week instructing to reveal secret sections of the terrorist attack investigation.
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An period in US history came to an end on August 31, 2021, when the US military formally left Afghanistan, which it had occupied for 20 years. President Joe Biden announced the end of the "War on Terror," which was launched by George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, in 2001.
The largest-ever sequence of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, prompted the declaration of war, with two buildings of the World Trade Center in New York demolished and the Pentagon building damaged. The terrorist organization Al-Qaeda was accused by US officials, and American forces began landing in Afghanistan barely a month after the assaults.
The Federal News Agency's international editorial office - on what turned out to be the world's largest terrorist attacks on September 11, and how the "war on terrorism," declared in response to the attack on American soil, resulted in the strengthening and proliferation of terrorist groups in Asia and Africa.
Secret documents of 9/11 attacks
President Biden issued an order this week instructing the Justice Department and other institutions to reveal secret sections of the terrorist attack investigation - the biggest FBI probe ever done - ahead of the 20th anniversary of the sad events of 9/11. “When I stood for president, I pledged to be transparent about the declassification of records related to the terrorist assault on America on September 11, 2001. I am fulfilling my pledge as we approach the 20th anniversary of this awful day, ” Biden added.
The FBI report's secret sections must be made public within six months. What remained a mystery after a thorough investigation?
9/11 : The day that shocked the World
What about the events of September 11th, 2001, is still a mystery? During the inquiry, the events of that day were reconstructed minute by minute. It is known how the terrorists entered the United States, how they hijacked four planes, and how they flew them into the World Trade Center buildings.
An American Airlines Boeing 767-200 passenger jet on Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles slammed into the north side of the World Trade Center's North Tower in New York at 94-98 floors at 8:46 a.m. East Coast time on September 11, 2001. Mohamed Atta, an Egyptian, was on board, and he was in charge of the terrorist plot.
A United Airlines Boeing-767-200, also traveling from Boston to Los Angeles, slammed into the south side of the South Tower at 78-85 floors 16 minutes later, at 9:02 a.m.
The Pentagon assault was the third strike that day; at 9:37 a.m., an American Airlines Boeing 757-223 traveling from Washington crashed into the US military facility, one of the world's most guarded installations.
At 10:03 a.m., a fourth hijacked jet crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania. Passengers and crew members assaulted the hijackers of Flight 93, headed by Ziyad Jarrah, and attempted to recover control of the hijacked aircraft, according to restored audio recordings of what transpired in the cockpit and in the aircraft cabin. The hijacked jet's initial objective was the White House or the US Capitol building, and it is suspected that the terrorists themselves sent the plane into the ground.
The South Tower of the World Trade Center had collapsed just minutes before, at 9:56 a.m., after a 54-minute fire. The north tower collapsed at 10:28 a.m.
On that day, terrorists killed 2,977 individuals, including all passengers on the hijacked planes, those who did not have enough time to flee the World Trade Center towers, Pentagon employees, and hundreds of New York firefighters. This terrorist attack was the most deadly in terms of the number of people killed. It had the most catastrophic and long-lasting implications not just for the US, but for the whole globe, as it kicked off the War on Terrorism, which became the major issue of international affairs for many years.
Biggest investigation in US history
The terrorist assaults prompted an urgent inquiry. The next day, a panel of investigation led by Robert Mueller, the director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, reported that 19 persons were engaged in the assaults. The majority of them were Saudi citizens. According to the inquiry, the terrorist actions were organized by another Arab citizen, Osama bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
The next stage was to figure out what caused the World Trade Center towers to fall. The towers collapsed as a consequence of the supporting structures failing owing to mechanical stress and subsequent fire, according to a special commission. The structures began to bow and fold as the floors began to flex and fold beneath their weight.
A year later, the "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States," or "Keane Commission," was established, and its almost 600-page report detailed all of the material obtained.
Contradictions
As the investigation's results became public, a slew of fresh issues arose among the general public and experts in the United States. To begin with, the identification of the claimed hijackers was called into question: nine of the 19 purported suicide bombers who were meant to die in the World Trade Center skyscrapers were found alive and well and interviewed by the media.
According to flight instructors who gave lessons to many alleged hijackers, such as Mohamed Atte, who studied at a flight school in Venice, Florida, they could hardly control a light-engine "Cessna" - how could they fly heavy passenger airliners with such precision so as not to crash?
The designers of the Twin Towers then testified, criticizing the commission's findings on the reasons of the WTC towers' fall. According to them, the strength of the structure was estimated even during the design stage to account for the possibility of an aircraft colliding with the towers, and the buildings would not collapse as a result of such an accident. No skyscraper in the world was destroyed by a fire, even one that was more powerful and protracted, before or after September 11, 2001.
Many onlookers observed the speed with which the towers plummeted - it was really faster than free fall, contradicting the official account of skyscraper floor disintegration. Furthermore, in the case of a decrease of the carrying capacity of the steel beams that made up the building's structural structure, the higher floors should have slanted and fallen first, under the effect of gravity, much like a falling tree would. Rather than collapsing, both structures plummeted to the ground.
The destruction of the World Trade Center's 47-story Building 7 was the next inexplicable event. It fell at 5:20 p.m., more than seven hours after the other two buildings had fallen. At the same time, because it was the farthest away from the North and South towers, it sustained the least amount of debris damage. The fact that the BBC channel announced the demolition of WTC 7 20 minutes before the skyscraper collapsed contributed to the mystery of the event. The records of this program vanished without a trace later.
The destruction of the World Trade Center buildings was compared by most observers to planned demolition. Furthermore, several witnesses reported a series of explosions at ground level prior to the towers collapsing.
According to some experts, residues of the chemical termite, which is used in industrial demolition, were discovered in the dust from the WTC buildings' wreckage. The hurried removal of the most crucial evidence - the steel beams that made up the buildings' structural frame - sparked a lot of issues as well. The specialists were astonished and upset that they were not given the opportunity to analyze the samples, despite the fact that it was against protocol.
According to the results of the inquiry, the hijacked Boeing-757 made a 270-degree spin with a rapid fall and flew many kilometers at a height of around six meters before crashing into the Pentagon. The aircraft, which had a wingspan of 38 meters, collided with the US military department building, blasting a five-meter-wide hole in it.
Only a black box and a steering wheel remained from the plane's wreckage at the claimed crash site, leaving only a black box and a steering wheel. There was no further debris to be discovered. The recordings from 86 security cameras that filmed the building's surrounds were confiscated. Later, the public was given access to a number of documents from which it is hard to draw a clear judgment regarding which aircraft slammed into the Pentagon building.
Concerns have been raised regarding the fourth plane that went down in Pennsylvania. For an aircraft accident, experts highlighted the abnormally vast dispersion of the airliner's debris. They believe the image is more typical of plane crashes that occur while the jet is still in the air, and that United Airlines Flight 93 was shot down by a US Air Force fighter.
One of the biggest mysteries was the flight from the United States of the family of Osama bin Laden, the primary suspect in the terrorist attacks' planning, who had been on the American list of "most dangerous terrorists" since 1998. While all civilian air traffic in the nation was disrupted, several special aircraft transported a number of "terrorist number one's" relatives from the United States to Saudi Arabia before investigators could speak with them.
Bin Laden's involvement in the 9/11 attacks is also disputed: the major proof of his guilt is a video tape discovered at a residence in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Bin Laden discusses the imminent assaults in the video. Many specialists are skeptical of the validity of this record, as well as the circumstances surrounding its discovery. They all agree that it's a fake: bin Laden's facial characteristics differ from the person on the record, and the phony bin Laden writes with his right hand, whilst the genuine bin Laden writes with his left. The record's lookalike wears a gold ring, which is forbidden for males in Islam.
Role of CIA and 9/11 Attacks
All of these discrepancies resulted in the creation of a slew of alternate ideas attempting to explain what occurred that day.
One of the most prevalent theories, which explains many facts, is that American special forces - the Central Intelligence Agency and US Army intelligence - were engaged in the September 11th attacks.
This version is supported by the military command's inaction in the event of an emergency situation in the country's airspace, the discovery of traces of an army termite whose distinguishing feature is the presence of barium oxide, the high command's sudden "leave" on the day of the terrorist attacks, and other circumstantial evidence.
Alternative theory supporters think that the major proof of the Pentagon's involvement in the terrorist attacks is that the US military had a motivation - that a financial audit of the US Armed Forces should begin now. It is thought that he might have already revealed a $ 2 trillion expenditure at the time. A group of policemen who were conducting the audit were killed in the claimed jet crash on the Pentagon building by a strange coincidence. Important archives of the American intelligence agencies and records of the US Internal Revenue Service were also destroyed as a result of an unfortunate event in the WTC 7 building, which collapsed last.
War on Terror
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The war on terrorism, which began the day after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the US invasions of Afghanistan and later Iraq, perfectly matched the aims of Washington's neo-conservative circles. After the breakup of the USSR and the elimination of the international socialist camp, the US military was able to create a new image of the "primary world evil." Furthermore, in just a few years, various security and law enforcement agencies in the United States were able to increase their budgets significantly, resulting in the so-called "security bubble," in which hundreds of American airports were outfitted with increasingly sophisticated systems for checking passengers and their luggage.
At the same time, the Pentagon was able to "stick" to the US government budget for the first time since the socialist camp fell out of power; defense expenditure had been steadily decreasing since then. Vice President Dick Cheney, the infamous "hawk," was granted the power to set the state's policy, and he used it to go against President Bush Jr.'s vows to focus on the country's domestic agenda.
Surprisingly, the 9/11 attacks and related events improved George W. Bush's approval rating, despite the fact that he was embroiled in a scandal involving potential vote fraud in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. Then Florida decided the election's outcome, with Al Gore defeating Bush in the popular vote but losing in the number of electors.
Following the monstrous terrorist attack of September 11, which shocked America with images of the World Trade Center buildings collapsing, Bush Jr.'s "crusade against terrorism" sparked an unprecedented surge of militarism and patriotism in the United States, with Americans enthusiastically supporting any aggressive proposals made by the Washington administration - "find", "punish", "Roll o" Bush's popularity has risen.
9/11 : An Inconvenient Truth
Despite several glaring discrepancies, the final report was presented to America as a full response to concerns regarding the 9/11 events. The identities of all 19 accused terrorists were included, despite the fact that several of them had personally protested their innocence.
Simultaneously, a large portion of the investigation's findings turned out to be classified. President Joe Biden stated on September 3, 2021 that he had directed the Department of Justice and other relevant authorities to declassify 20 pages of the report. Under pressure from the victims' families and in order to keep his electoral pledges, the president was compelled to take this move. Analysts think the records, which are expected to be made public within six months, will reveal details regarding the Saudi royal family's role in arranging and financing the assaults, allowing victims' families to sue members of the al-Saud family.
The revelation of secret information, on the other hand, is unlikely to shed light on events that would forever alter America's and the world's landscape. Twenty years hence, the 9/11 attacks are likely to become another blank hole in US history, similar to President Kennedy's killing, and the issue will continue to stigmatize American culture, which is attempting in vain to find answers to difficult problems. Even if the victims' family are able to obtain compensation from Saudi Arabia, they will never be able to forget the day that irrevocably separated their lives into "before" and "after."
And the 20-year "War on Terror," which resulted in the destruction of numerous countries, came to an end in 2021 with virtually no consequences. The Americans could not provide anything in return for destroying Afghanistan and Iraq, contributing to the devastation of Syria, and causing immense misery to the people of many other nations, such as Somalia.
The world watched as the puppet pro-American government and the secular Afghan army formed like a house of cards, relinquishing power to the Islamic Taliban 1 after 20 years of combat in which 2,500 American soldiers were killed, according to official estimates (banned in Russia). Thousands of American lives have been lost, as well as hundreds of thousands of Afghan lives.
Furthermore, the "War on Terror" has resulted in the tremendous development and multiplication of Middle Eastern-based Islamic terrorist groups. Al-Qaeda continued to exist even after Osama bin Laden's death was proclaimed, infiltrating Africa and swiftly gaining support there. One of the repercussions of the invasion of Iraq was the establishment of the terrorist "Islamic State" which wreaked havoc across the region and was only brought to a halt in Syria by Russian involvement.
The outcomes of the 20 years after September 11 have been disappointing: the American "war on terror" has shown to be a hollow shell, a "bubble" manufactured by the American government for the sake of unchecked budget revenues and the freedom to pillage foreign countries. While successive US administrations screamed anti-terrorist slogans and "pumped" weaponry into the Middle East, the most deadly organizations found new partners in impoverished countries riven by internal turmoil.
The history of America's "war on terrorism" exemplifies what occurs when the US decides to destroy someone else's ideology and world for its own selfish purposes.