Matt Cardle states that he believes the 9/11 attacks were a "conspiracy"

X-Factor winner Matt Cardle has likely sent his public relations team and management into a tailspin with a recent statement he made, in which he suggested that the 9/11 attacks on the United States were a conspiracy. The attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and hijacked plane which crashed in Pennsylvania resulted in the deaths of near to 3,000 people, attacks which Al-Qaeda claimed full responsibility for.

In an interview with The Big Issue, Cardle stated his belief in a cover-up. "Well, there's a lot of conspiracy. I've got to be careful what I say", he said. "The whole 9/11 thing, something's not quite right there. I think the way it was portrayed on TV and who was responsible and the way it happened was not the way it happened."

Then, when asked if he believed President George W. Bush was involved in the attacks, Cardle responded by (allegedly) nodding his head affirmatively while saying "I don't want to comment!"

There is a rapidly growing 9/11 "truth" movement, who believe that the 9/11 attacks were a 'false flag' operation perpetrated by the US government in order to gain sympathy for overseas wars. Their reliance on hearsay, hypothetical evidence and pseudo-science have been widely discredited by numerous scientific and criminological investigations.