The news clips were being repeated showing the plane going into tower two. The family got a flight back to the UK after a couple of days and then got onto a flight to New York. But we called round a few hospitals and it became clear that there were very few people who were actually injured," Matt says. Geoff was dead.
He was An inquest into his death would not conclude until , though fragments of his shoulder blade were identified among rubble from the World Trade Centre in By that point, Matt was beginning to question the official account of what happened.
He doesn't subscribe to any one particular conspiracy theory - and online, there are many to choose from - but he's convinced that there is a cover-up which is preventing him from getting answers about his brother's death. Sometimes they say they're protected from disclosure because they could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.
I can't even get basic evidence from the authorities. He wasn't alone in asking questions. Sections of the official US government report were redacted for years - and some information is still missing.
However that doesn't mean there's any evidence for the more outlandish online conspiracy theories about the attacks. Some claim the US government was complicit - that officials deliberately let the attacks happen or were even involved in the planning. Experts say part of the reason for the persistence of such conspiracy theories is the dissonance that results when people hear that a relatively small group of men using low-tech weapons caused such cataclysmic carnage. And the reinforcing nature of the online world means that the theories have hung around for a decade and a half.
People tend to share it with people who kind of think the same way as they do about these issues in the first place," she says. The theories have been propelled by several books and films. David Ray Griffin, a professor of religious philosophy and theology, accused the US government of complicity in the attack in his book The New Pearl Harbour.
The first instalment in filmmaker Dylan Avery's Loose Change series was released in It was so widely available, a digital copy was even later found in Osama Bin Laden's compound.
The confusion and chaos of 11 September has also helped the conspiracies find an audience. This tower has become a key focus for people who question the official account of what happened. But in , the Plasco tower in the Iranian capital, Tehran, became the second. The fact the collapse of 7 World Trade Center was announced in a live report by BBC News correspondent Jane Stanley - while it was still visibly standing behind her - has been cited by conspiracy theorists as evidence major media organisations were part of the inside-job plot.
The Reuters news agency had mistakenly reported the collapse of the building, which was also picked up by CNN, just before the live report. Some online conspiracy theories suggest US missiles were fired at the Pentagon, as part of a government plot, and the hole left in the building was too small to have been caused by a passenger plane. But a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers told Popular Mechanics magazine the size and shape of the hole was due to one wing of the Boeing hitting the ground and the other being severed on impact with the building.
Meanwhile, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers tried to take control of the plane from the hijackers. Online theories claim it was shot down by a white business jet flying into a nearby airport.
But aviation officials had requested the jet inspect the area, which it did, reporting back evidence of a big hole in the ground with smoke coming out of it.
Vice-President Dick Cheney later revealed in his autobiography that following the attack on the Twin Towers, he had ordered the shooting down of any commercial airliner believed to have been hijacked.
Another theory falsely claims no Jewish people were killed in the attacks because 4, Jewish employees at the World Trade Center had received advance notice not to turn up for work. Believers conclude the Israeli government mounted the attacks to goad the US into attacking its regional enemies or responsibility lies with powerful Jewish elites who control world events from the shadows.
That would constitute 9. The original question was phrased by the source as "To what extent do you believe the following conspiracy theories? Please select one option on each row. Belief in conspiracy theories in the United States in Belief among U.
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