September 11, 2001; a date that will live in the hearts and minds of Americans forever. It all started as a beautiful morning in New York City, when suddenly a plane crashed into one of the buildings of the World Trade Center. As news reporters and investigators stood stunned thinking the crash may have been an accident, a second plane crashed into the second building, resulting in both building crumbling to the ground and thousands of deaths. Later in the day, a plane crashed into the U.S. Pentagon, and another hijacked plane was intentionally crashed in Maryland by very brave passengers. The memory of the day still lives on with Americans and people around the world, as some still speculate as to who the true perpetrator was in the organized attack.
A number of polls and online surveys have been conducted worldwide to discover what the public truly believes about the masterminds behind the attack on America. To this day, it has been stated that the organization behind the attacks was Al Qaeda, but some people are not so sure. Some people believe the attack was not a true attack at all, but rather a way of the U.S. covering up negligence or creating a common enemy. The U.S. declared war on Al Qaeda shortly after the attacks, and after the deaths of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, some people still question what really happened on that awful day.
A worldwide average online survey states that 46% of people believe Al Qaeda was behind the attacks, 15% believe the U.S. government is to blame, 7% believe Israel was the attacker, 7% think of another country entirely, and 25% of the public does not know who to blame. Upon studying the results of individual country distributed polls, it is clearly evident that many countries are highly biased in their opinions. Most countries have the majority leaning towards Al Qaeda, but countries such as Jordan and Egypt feature quite impressive numbers (31% and 43%, respectively) that believe Israel was in charge of the attacks, while countries such as Mexico and Turkey have high numbers leaning towards the U.S government (30% and 36%, respectively). While the overall numbers state that the majority of the world believes Al Qaeda was to blame for the attacks, there will likely never be a 100% belief as to who the true perpetrator was, as there will always be conspiracy, bias and false data for which to account.
