Some people like to look for the most complicated answer to what happened on 9/11 - like the government orchestrated it, made up people, planted explosives, etc. etc. The simple fact is that Al Qaeda exists and there is proof from their own lips that they planned and excuted 9/11. It doesn't matter if the US army might have shot down one hijacked plane over Pennsylvania, and there is evidence that a plane did hit the Pentagon, despite what conspiracy theorists say - so I tend to want to believe the simple story. Just read the elaborate stories by the conspiracy theorists - they seem to have a complex answer for every part of the 9/11 attack. It too makes me wonder how on earth people can buy into that. 9/11 could only have been done by a small group of terrorists who planned carefully amongst themselves. It is much easier for them to ram planes into buildings than for the US to manipulate every detail like the passengers, hijackers, rigging the towers to collapse, planting fake stories, calls from passengers, photograhic evidence etc. etc. The simple solution is most often the correct one.
It must have been terrible for you Concord - I sympathise with you, your friends and family who had to experience such a shocking act of terror.