The 9/11 Fairy Tale: The Official Story and Why It Collapsed

Twenty-four years ago today, on September 11, 2001, here’s what allegedly happened.

At least, here is the official, government-approved fairy tale:

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On 9/11/2001, nineteen devout Muslim fundamentalists—who somehow also enjoyed cocaine and pink-haired strippers—armed with box cutters, outsmarted the entire US military and intelligence apparatus. They hijacked four planes and flew them wildly off course for over an hour without a single fighter jet bothering to intercept them.

These amateur pilots, including one who had struggled to handle a Cessna just weeks prior, performed aeronautical miracles. They knocked down three steel-framed skyscrapers with two planes in New York, while the Cessna-failure perfectly executed a death-defying corkscrew dive to precisely hit the one section of the Pentagon that just so happened to be auditing the mysterious disappearance of $2.3 trillion, announced by Donald Rumsfeld the day before. What luck!

Luckier still, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits within hours, and the administration by dinner. It was Osama Bin Laden. Case closed! Except for a bunch of pesky “conspiracy theorists” who had the audacity to ask for an investigation into the mass murder of 3,000 people. The nerve!

Here’s a humorous and accurate take on the official, government-approved fairy tale presented by James Corbett:

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Now, back to reality.

This article is a laundry list of “anomalies”—things that would make Lieutenant Columbo’s “spidey-senses” tingle. Let’s explore the fairy tale and see if it makes sense.

The “Coincidence” Drill: On the morning of 9/11, the US military was running no fewer than fifteen war games and terror drills, many simulating hijacked planes. This genius scheduling meant air traffic controllers and NORAD were utterly confused, chasing “ghost” aircraft over the Atlantic while the real attacks happened. The odds of this coinciding with a real event? A number with 41 zeros behind it. But sure, it was just bad luck.

NORAD’s Nap Time: It is standard procedure to scramble jets when a plane goes off course—it happened 129 times in the year 2000. But on 9/11, the world’s most advanced air defense system apparently took a collective coffee break. Jets that were scrambled flew at a leisurely pace, and the FAA took up to 39 minutes to report deviations. Why? Perhaps because a software company called Ptech, run by a suspected terrorist, had backdoor access to the FAA’s entire system. Oops!

The Box Cutter Myth: We’re to believe five scrawny guys with box cutters (which were never found, by the way) overpowered a plane full of 60+ people, including military-trained pilots who, in their terror, forgot to hit the four-digit hijack code they’re trained to use. Any red-blooded American would have turned those hijackers into a bloody pulp. The official story isn’t just unlikely; it’s an insult to our intelligence and our testosterone.

The Magic Cell Phones: In 2001, making cell phone calls from a commercial jet at cruising altitude was technologically impossible. Yet, we’re told passengers made lengthy, clear calls. The FBI’s own evidence shows many of these calls never connected. So, were they faked? Voice-morphing technology existed in 1999. It would explain why one passenger called his mother and bizarrely identified himself by his full name, like a character in a bad play. When was the last time you called your mother and identified yourself by both your first and last name?

The Controlled Demolitions (Whoops, “Collapses”): The official story claims that office fires—not hot enough to melt steel—caused the Twin Towers to collapse into their own footprints at free-fall speed. This has never happened before or since in the history of steel-framed high-rises. Watch the videos. You see classic controlled demolition squibs, deafening bangs, and molten steel—which office fires can’t create—pooling in the basements for weeks. Scientists even found military-grade nano-thermite in the dust. For this “pancake theory” to work, you have to believe the massive central core columns—the backbone of the buildings—just vanished into thin air.

Then there’s WTC Building 7, the third skyscraper to fall that day. It wasn’t hit by a plane, had only small, isolated fires, and yet collapsed symmetrically at free-fall speed. Check out the video below! The BBC even reported it had collapsed 20 minutes before it actually did. The owner, Larry Silverstein, was caught on tape saying the decision was made to “pull it”—construction industry jargon for a controlled demolition.

The Pentagon “Attack”: The hole in the Pentagon was 16 feet wide. A Boeing 757 has a 125-foot wingspan. Math is hard, apparently. The alleged pilot couldn’t fly a Cessna but then perfectly navigated a 270-degree corkscrew descent at 500 mph, flying 20 feet off the ground without scraping the lawn. Meanwhile, the most heavily defended airspace on earth was left utterly undefended. All security footage (86 different cameras) was immediately seized by the FBI, which then released only one pathetic five-frame video that shows an explosion, but no plane.

The Vanishing Plane: Flight 93 allegedly crashed in a Pennsylvania field, vaporizing entirely and leaving a hole in the ground, a few tiny scraps, no bodies, and not a single drop of blood. Yet debris was found miles away, and witnesses reported a white jet circling and hearing an explosion in the air. The official story can’t decide if it was a heroic passenger takeover or a shoot-down.

The Convenient Patsy: Osama bin Laden, a CIA asset on dialysis, immediately denied involvement. The FBI has no hard evidence connecting him to 9/11, a fact stated by their own Chief of Investigative Publicity. The “confession” video was an obvious fake, featuring a healthier, younger-looking impostor. But he was the perfect villain to launch a pre-written agenda for endless war and the evisceration of our civil liberties.

In the end, 9/11 wasn’t an investigation; it was a cover-up. The 9/11 Commission was a predetermined “Omission” Commission. Evidence was destroyed, witnesses were ignored or silenced, and anyone asking questions was labeled a nutjob.

The event was a pretext, a “new Pearl Harbor” as called for by the neocons at the Project for a New American Century. It was the excuse to launch wars, pass the PATRIOT Act, and build a surveillance police state. They needed a story so terrifying, so emotionally charged, that we’d be too angry and scared to notice the gaping holes in it.

And for the most part, it worked.

We have an entire chapter on the 9/11 fairy tale in our eye-opening book entitled Monumental Myths. Check it out.