Government Cover-ups

             September 11 was a day of complete terror and tragedy. Muslim radicals murdered over 3000 innocent civilians in a surprise attack that completely destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon. This is what supposedly happened on 9/11, but more took place that what meets the eye. The US government took part in the bombings in some way. Their reason: money, war, and taking away our freedom through the Patriot Act. This will be shone backed by widely available evidence found in books, interviews, and on the internet.
             Many people believe that the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks were a complete surprise to the American government. For over a year the government has been telling the public that there were no warnings and there was no way to stop the bombings. But what if the government were lying the whole time? What if the government had warnings of an attack but refused to investigate them?
             In the days after September 11, Bush administration officials repeatedly characterized the suicide hijackings as a sneak attack for which there had been "no warning"(Martin, "Moussaoui"). This statement implies: If the government had known about the bombings they would have stopped the disaster. To the contrary, could this claim by the government actually be a cover-up for what really happened on September 11?
             Government claims of a surprise attack were later exposed as lies by newspapers and magazines that gave proof of advanced warnings. "The governments of at least four countries-Germany, Egypt, Russia and Israel-gave specific warnings to the US of an impending terrorist attack in the months preceding September 11. These alerts, while fragmentary, not only combined to foretell the scale of the attack and its main target, but also indicated that hijacked commercial aircraft would be the weapon of choice" (Martin, "US government alerted"). According to an article in one of the major daily n...

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