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The 9/11 attackers were a small, organised group who had to take ID with them. But still in the immediate aftermath there was a fair bit of debate about which I
by notahacker 6y ago
The 9/11 attackers were a small, organised group who had to take ID with them. But still in the immediate aftermath there was a fair bit of debate about which Islamist faction they represented (including a false claim of responsibility), mistaken identity claims about at least one of the hijackers and plenty of confusion over what on earth happened on Flight 93 as well as question marks about the speed of security responses that have arguably never had a satisfactory answer. Not to mention numerous sillier arguments about jet fuel being unable to melt steel beams cropping up in various corners of the internet.
The Capitol invaders were a much larger number of people from overlapping groups some more planned than others and some apparently with more explicit [and less successful] goals than others, and some likely guilty of greater crimes than others so it's a less straightforward narrative. Especially since most of those identified as involved expect a fair trial.
Also, the hijackers weren't praised by the POTUS and instinctively sympathised with by much of US media, which didn't have the same instincts to either push false flag angles or to question whether the security response might have been deliberately sabotaged.