9/11 at 25: The Questions That Still Refuse to Go Away
9/11 at 25: The Questions That Still Refuse to Go Away By JM Talboo Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, Americans have heard the official story of 9/11 many times. We know that 19 hijackers carried out the attacks and that al-Qaeda was responsible for planning the operation. We know that Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were central figures in the conspiracy. We know that the United States government failed to prevent the attacks despite possessing significant pieces of information about the emerging threat. But there is another question that has never completely gone away: How much do we really know about everything that happened before, during, and after September 11? That question is not the same thing as claiming that every alternative theory is true. It is not even necessarily a claim that the official account is false. It is a recognition that there are documented discrepancies, unresolved questions, disputed testimony, intelligence failures, and allegati...
