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Keyword and entity retrieval over indexed evidence, hypotheses, and claims. Nothing is answered from model memory on this page. For a scored percentage with the working shown, open Fact or Fiction.
Topic remit
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Intelligence & process
Foreknowledge
Independent cluster
Entities
- Omar al-Bayoumi
- Nawaf al-Hazmi
- Fahad al-Thumairy
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
- Ali Abdul Aziz Ali
- Hani Hanjour
- Holly Ratchford
- Mohamed Atta
- Ziad Jarrah
- Dick Cheney
- Barry Jennings
- Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder
- Mahmoud Ahmad
- George W. Bush
- David Chandler
- Ted Walter
- Graeme MacQueen
- Piers Robinson
- Natalie Schilling
- Søren Roest Korsgaard
- Lorie Van Auken
- Peter Dale Scott
- Paul Zarembka
- Barbara Honegger
- Kristina Claunch
- Mary Marshall Clark
- Peter Bearman
- Barbara Elias-Sanborn
- Richard A. Clarke
- Sajit Gandhi
- Michael Horrocks
Matching hypotheses
- H009Relevant intelligence was withheld from the 9/11 CommissionScore
- H001AA11 struck WTC1Score
- H011NORAD/FAA response failure was more than accident (exercises, false timeline, or interference)Score
- H015Able Danger identified Atta's cell before 9/11 and was blocked from warning the FBIScore
- H021The 9/11 Commission was structurally prevented from being a truth-seeking enquiryScore
Matching claims
- verifiedCLM-007
U.S. agencies had actionable information on Mihdhar's U.S. visa in January 2000 and failed to watchlist him until August 2001.
- indeterminateCLM-008
Bayoumi had advance knowledge that the 9/11 attacks would occur.
- well_supportedCLM-009
The FBI withheld Bayoumi-related intelligence from the 9/11 Commission.
- verifiedCLM-011
American Airlines Flight 11 struck World Trade Center 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
- verifiedCLM-012
United Airlines Flight 175 struck World Trade Center 2 at 09:03:11.
- disputedCLM-020
Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta's cell before 11 September and was blocked from notifying the FBI.
- disputedCLM-031
The 9/11 Commission was not a truth-seeking body; the Report is a 'Zelikow Report' defined by systematic omissions.
- unverifiedCLM-034
Reported 9/11 aircraft manoeuvres were not flyable manually by the named hijacker-pilots (automation/remote guidance).
- disputedCLM-035
A small CIA Alec Station group intentionally withheld Mihdhar/Hazmi information from the FBI, and the purpose became to allow the attacks.
- disputedCLM-036
The Pentagon attack involved inside-the-building explosives before AA77's official impact.
- verifiedCLM-037
A large born-digital public archive of 11 September emails, stories, and images exists and was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2003.
- verifiedCLM-040
NTSB produced flight-path studies and ATC transcripts for the four hijacked flights and initially refused a public docket.
- well_supportedCLM-042
About three-quarters of CIA materials cited by the 9/11 Commission, including all KSM interrogation reports, remained withheld as of the 2012 File posting.
Evidence supporting
63Ted Walter — Earthshaking Revelations: seismic evidence of pre-impact explosions (10 Sep 2025)
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2025-09-10
Walter presented a 2025 talk arguing for seismic evidence of explosions before aircraft impact.
Phoenix memo, 10 July 2001: bin Laden students at U.S. aviation schools
FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams) · 2001-07-10
An FBI agent documented a bin Laden–flight-school hypothesis in July 2001 that was not actioned nationally before the attacks.
Graeme MacQueen — 156 eyewitnesses describing explosions at the Twin Towers (Toronto Report ch.8)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
MacQueen compiled 156 accounts, mostly FDNY oral histories, in which speakers used explosion/bomb language about the towers; he documents both the original wording and some later retractions.
FDNY oral histories: multiple firefighters report explosions
New York Fire Department oral histories (released 2005 after lawsuit) · 2005-08-12
Multiple trained first responders independently described explosion-like events at the WTC site on 11 September 2001.
Paul Zarembka — Insider trading before 9/11 re-examined (Toronto Report ch.6)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
A 2012 hearing paper surveys three academic option-market studies and argues the combined pre-attack activity is not plausibly random, while treating UAL/AMR themselves as weak because of hedging.
Poteshman 2006: unusual put-option volume on airlines before 9/11
Allen M. Poteshman, 'Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,' Journal of Business 79(4) (2006) · 2006-07-01
A peer-reviewed study found statistically unusual pre-attack put-option activity in airline stocks.
Evidence contradicting
14Silverstein Properties later: 'pull it' meant withdraw firefighters
PBS — America Rebuilds: A Day with Larry Silverstein (2002) · 2005-01-01
Silverstein's office published a firefighter-withdrawal reading of 'pull it.'
Commission staff: Able Danger Atta identification not substantiated
9/11 Commission Report · 2005-08-12
Commission staff published that they could not substantiate a pre-9/11 Able Danger identification of Atta.
Commission: UA93 crashed near Shanksville at 10:03:11 after a passenger revolt
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
UA93 impacted a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, at 10:03:11. Official transcription of the CVR describes a passenger counterattack.
Legge & Stutt — AA77 FDR analysis supports official Pentagon flight path (Jan 2011)
Journal of 9/11 Studies · 2011-01-01
A 2011 Journal of 9/11 Studies FDR analysis concludes the official AA77 path to Pentagon impact is supported.
John D. Wyndham — Problems with theories alternative to large-plane impact at the Pentagon (Nov 2011)
Journal of 9/11 Studies · 2011-11-01
The Journal of 9/11 Studies published a 2011 paper arguing that theories alternative to a large-plane Pentagon impact have problems.
ASCE Pentagon building performance: 757-class impact damage
ASCE/SEI Pentagon Building Performance Report (2003) · 2003-01-01
An engineering team mapped interior damage consistent with a large-aircraft mass trajectory through the Pentagon.
Ambiguous
78Columbia 9/11 Oral History Project — holdings statement
Columbia Center for Oral History Research — September 11 Oral History Project · 2026-09-03
Columbia's 9/11 oral-history project reports five programmes, over 900 hours with over 600 people, 351 of them open, plus a 2011 book. Transcripts were not ingested.
SHSU LibGuide page: 9/11 Attack, Afghan and Iraq Wars
SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page) · 2026-04-16
On 3 September 2026 the SHSU guide listed eight 9/11-related collections and one Iraq-war Veterans History Project link, with the annotations quoted in full_text.
Veterans History Project — Iraq War box; loc.gov 403
SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page) · 2026-09-03
The guide's Iraq-war Veterans History Project link did not yield files at ingest.
IC911 Data Archive — links inactive at ingest
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
As of 2 September 2026 the IC911 data-archive page states that archive links are inactive and that a large archive of videos, photographs, and documents is being built.
IC911 who-we-are mission (research, preserve, public action)
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
IC911 describes itself as preserving data, doing new research, and campaigning for a new investigation.
Complete 9/11 Timeline restored on IC911 (History Commons / Paul Thompson)
Complete 9/11 Timeline (Paul Thompson / History Commons), hosted by IC911 · 2026-09-02
IC911 hosts a restored copy of Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline, originally at History Commons, described as cataloguing thousands of mainstream and government records.
Contemporary reports
74PNAC 2000: 'catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor'
Project for a New American Century — Rebuilding America's Defenses (September 2000) · 2000-09-01
A 2000 PNAC report used a 'new Pearl Harbor' clause about the pace of military transformation.
911DA email, 12 September 2001: planned desk, 50th floor, 1 WTC
September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM / ASHP) · 2001-09-12
A 12 September 2001 email claims a dealing-room desk on the 50th floor of 1 WTC was being stood up over Labor Day 2001, and that some co-workers may have been in the building.
Phoenix memo, 10 July 2001: bin Laden students at U.S. aviation schools
FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams) · 2001-07-10
An FBI agent documented a bin Laden–flight-school hypothesis in July 2001 that was not actioned nationally before the attacks.
911DA email, 11 September 2001: WTC 'just being gone'
September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM / ASHP) · 2001-09-11
A 11 September 2001 email treats the World Trade Center as already gone while the writer listens to coverage.
911DA story: last Windows/observation-deck visit the night of 10 September
September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM / ASHP) · 2002-10-22
A October 2002 Digital Archive story claims a visitor party was on the WTC observation deck around 22:00 on 10 September 2001 and was offered rain checks dated 11 September.
Commission: AA11 struck WTC1 at 08:46:40
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
A large aircraft identified as AA11 struck WTC 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
Later recollections / analysis
81Columbia 9/11 Oral History Project — holdings statement
Columbia Center for Oral History Research — September 11 Oral History Project · 2026-09-03
Columbia's 9/11 oral-history project reports five programmes, over 900 hours with over 600 people, 351 of them open, plus a 2011 book. Transcripts were not ingested.
SHSU LibGuide page: 9/11 Attack, Afghan and Iraq Wars
SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page) · 2026-04-16
On 3 September 2026 the SHSU guide listed eight 9/11-related collections and one Iraq-war Veterans History Project link, with the annotations quoted in full_text.
Veterans History Project — Iraq War box; loc.gov 403
SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page) · 2026-09-03
The guide's Iraq-war Veterans History Project link did not yield files at ingest.
IC911 Data Archive — links inactive at ingest
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
As of 2 September 2026 the IC911 data-archive page states that archive links are inactive and that a large archive of videos, photographs, and documents is being built.
IC911 who-we-are mission (research, preserve, public action)
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
IC911 describes itself as preserving data, doing new research, and campaigning for a new investigation.
Complete 9/11 Timeline restored on IC911 (History Commons / Paul Thompson)
Complete 9/11 Timeline (Paul Thompson / History Commons), hosted by IC911 · 2026-09-02
IC911 hosts a restored copy of Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline, originally at History Commons, described as cataloguing thousands of mainstream and government records.
Official documents
76Phoenix memo, 10 July 2001: bin Laden students at U.S. aviation schools
FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams) · 2001-07-10
An FBI agent documented a bin Laden–flight-school hypothesis in July 2001 that was not actioned nationally before the attacks.
FDNY oral histories: multiple firefighters report explosions
New York Fire Department oral histories (released 2005 after lawsuit) · 2005-08-12
Multiple trained first responders independently described explosion-like events at the WTC site on 11 September 2001.
Commission: AA11 struck WTC1 at 08:46:40
9/11 Commission Report · 2004-07-22
A large aircraft identified as AA11 struck WTC 1 at 08:46:40 on 11 September 2001.
FEMA 2002: WTC 7 fire-induced progressive collapse; further study needed
FEMA 403 — World Trade Center Building Performance Study (2002) · 2002-05-01
An early official engineering team attributed WTC 7 to fire while flagging that the mechanism was not fully understood.
Taliban File update: U.S. pressed Taliban to expel UBL over 30 times
The Taliban File (NSAEBB 97) and updates · 2004-01-30
The National Security Archive's Taliban File update states the U.S. pressed the Taliban to expel bin Laden over 30 times, with only three approaches in the first Bush year.
Arlington County After Action Report on 9/11 (Pentagon response) — 911DA pointer
September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM / ASHP) · 2002-01-01
The Digital Archive holds a copy of Arlington County's 9/11 After Action Report as a first-responder collection item.
Independent / media
53IC911 Data Archive — links inactive at ingest
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
As of 2 September 2026 the IC911 data-archive page states that archive links are inactive and that a large archive of videos, photographs, and documents is being built.
IC911 who-we-are mission (research, preserve, public action)
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2026-09-02
IC911 describes itself as preserving data, doing new research, and campaigning for a new investigation.
Complete 9/11 Timeline restored on IC911 (History Commons / Paul Thompson)
Complete 9/11 Timeline (Paul Thompson / History Commons), hosted by IC911 · 2026-09-02
IC911 hosts a restored copy of Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline, originally at History Commons, described as cataloguing thousands of mainstream and government records.
PNAC 2000: 'catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor'
Project for a New American Century — Rebuilding America's Defenses (September 2000) · 2000-09-01
A 2000 PNAC report used a 'new Pearl Harbor' clause about the pace of military transformation.
Ted Walter — Earthshaking Revelations: seismic evidence of pre-impact explosions (10 Sep 2025)
International Center for 9/11 Justice · 2025-09-10
Walter presented a 2025 talk arguing for seismic evidence of explosions before aircraft impact.
Kevin R. Ryan — Why the NIST World Trade Center Reports are False (Toronto Report ch.3)
The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 · 2012-09-11
Ryan cites NIST test and model figures (steel temperatures, sag, expansion, fire duration) and states they do not support the published collapse sequences; he notes NIST did not release its global models for independent runs.
Unresolved contradictions
- CTR-011Put options: unusual volume vs no plot-participant profits
- CTR-019IC911 journal vs IC911 journal on the Pentagon object