1 in 7 people think US staged 9/11 attacks

One in seven Americans and Britons believe that the US government was involved in a conspiracy to staged the 9/11 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people, findings of a poll released ahead of the 10th anniversary of the attacks have revealed.

The survey, carried out by Gfk NOP as part of a BBC Two programme- 'The Conspiracy Files - Ten Years On', interviewed 1,000 people in the UK and the same number in the US, and found that 14 percent of Britons 15 percent of Americans think the past administration was involved in the tragedy, the Daily Mail reports.

On being asked that despite having a general notion that "these attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda, some people have suggested there was a wider conspiracy that included the American government. Do you, yourself, believe that there was a wider conspiracy, or not?" one in seven people agreed that the Bush administration was involved in the conspiracy that brought down the Twin Towers in New York

The belief that there was a conspiracy was more common among younger people, with a quarter (24 percent) of 16 to 24-year-olds subscribing to the theory, the paper quoted the poll, as saying.

About two thirds of those polled, 68 percent disagreed that the attacks were a result of a conspiracy led by the former US government.

On September 11 morning in 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.

The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and thousands of those working in the buildings.

Both towers collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others.

A third airliner was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.