# Did the 9-11 Attacks "Work?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 15, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-9-11-attacks-work/503088 "2009-07-15T05:27:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 143
**Author:** ![Mozart1220](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Mozart1220](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mozart1220)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-9-11-attacks-work/503088/143 "2010-09-14T19:22:23Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And anyway, don’t coincidences argue against your theory? If I were planning an attack like this I wouldn’t _want_ coincidences that could incriminate me (however fanciful they are). I wouldn’t have the military running training exercises to practice defending against the attack I was executing - that’d be STUPID. I’d have them running training exercises against something else. I wouldn’t aim for the best-defended side of a target. That would be even stupider. Nor would I set things up so that a well-connected security agency was guarding my target until one day before my attack. What kind of sense would any of this make? It would make a great deal of sense if you didn’t REALLY want to destroy the Pentagon, but didn’t want the pesky military getting in the way. As for the WTVC, it would make a great deal of sense to have a security company you could trust to look the other way while setting up the buildings with explosives. A real security company would have been very inconvenient. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-9-11-attacks-work/503088)._