Taking the nuclear demolition of WTC1/2/7 on 9/11 (/r/nuclear911) as [Premise], let's explore a bit more:

1. They knew the buildings were full of asbestos.
2. They knew the nuclear demolition would largely turn the buildings, including the asbestos, into radioactive dust.
3. They knew asbestos dust sticks in lungs, if inhaled.
4. They knew what irradiated particles that cannot be expelled will do to a human body.
5. There was a failed plan to destroy all exits from Manhattan Island, keeping thousands of people trapped there, potentially for days.

The conclusion is inescapable: They wanted to give everybody cancer.

The buildings were mostly empty, and the detonations were mostly subterranean, so they didn't want to actually overtly kill thousands of people. Rather, they wanted to quietly kill many thousands of people with cancer.

Why?

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My own morbid speculation: If you're going to quietly cull a population, what more profitable way than giving everybody cancer? **

I keep reading about mass radiation exposure around the country. I read about radiation detectors across the country going through the roof, then being silenced. Then there's genetically modified food, linked to cancer. Glyphosate, linked to cancer. Cell phones & wifi, linked to cancer. Poisoned water supplies figure in there somewhere.

Half-baked, fear monger idea: What if 9/11 was a small-scale test run? What if they're intending to poison as much of the US as possible?

** Besides war -- (not quiet) -- I can't think of one. Carving em up and selling them for parts is more profitable, and it may work on the homeless and forgotten, but you can't do it for the general population without arousing suspicion.