September 11, 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of the attack on World Trade Centre in the US and for Heather Bauer, who was only 14-year-old then, it is something other than the fallen Twin Towers, smoking wreckage at the Pentagon, and a crashed airliner in a Pennsylvania field.

She does not believe the accepted version of events, which is that Al-Qaeda conducted the attacks. The Wisconsin resident believes the US government was primarily responsible. This theory is just one of the falsehoods being promoted at various events to mark the 20th anniversary of September 11.

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Bauer told AFP that she questions absolutely everything now and wonders how much of history was really true, adding that she doesn’t believe in COVID-19 as well.

The 9/11 attack had left 3,000 people dead. Bauer said after falling into QAnon conspiracy theories, she looked again at the 9/11 story. According to Bauer, the attacks were only orchestrated to justify the Iraq war in 2003.

She is an devoted member of the 9/11 truther movement. This movement discuss online how they have evidence to prove that the Twin Towers fell after controlled demolition techniques. The commercial planes could not have damaged it so much.

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Those claims were developed in incredible detail over the past 20 years, and have been debunked just as minutely by documentarians and journalists.

The community has planned in-person conferences for the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and they will also discuss the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Two documentaries related to the pandemic, including ‘Plandemic’, a debunked documentary rife with falsehoods about the virus, will be streamed online and at the 17th edition of the “9/11 Truth Film Festival”. The festival will take place at an Oakland, California theatre.

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Carol Brouillet, who is the event organiser and founder of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance, said: “We have so much that we want to cover, and only eight hours.”

Conspiracy theories in the US date back to John F Kennedy’s assassination, and the Moon landings. “America is a uniquely conspiratorial country,” said Garrett Graff, a journalist and author of a book on the subject.

A Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Brouillet’s group, is also organising a conference on the 20th anniversary, and will feature a COVID-19 discussion.

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The event is named “From 9/11-Anthrax to the Pandemic,” in reference to letters containing the poisonous substance sent to journalists and politicians over several weeks in September 2001.

Indiana lawyer and the committee’s litigation director Mick Harrison said there is a clear connection between the anthrax in 2001 and the COVID-19 virus and they will reveal it. He added that he wants to make this country better by making its government more democratic, more accountable, more transparent.