The World Trade Center burning after two airliners crashed into the buildings in New York City, Tuesday September 11, 2001. (File photo by Getty Images)
An American political commentator, writer and researcher believes the American people and the world were played on September 11, 2001, when several jets crashed on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, leaving nearly 3,000 people dead.
James Fetzer, a leading 9/11 researcher and academic, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday, days after Americans commemorated the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead.
American leaders have called the 9/11 attacks had been one of the darkest days in the history of the country.
US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, 15 of them Saudi nationals, but many experts and independent researchers have raised questions about the official account.
They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.