Conspiracies: The Facts * the Theories * the Evidence by Andy Thomas

Author:Andy Thomas [Thomas, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Social Science
ISBN: 9781780285085
Google: LhuQMQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1780285086
Goodreads: 15843365
Publisher: Watkins
Published: 2013-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

chapter 6

9/11 AND RELATED

CONSPIRACIES

If the shooting of JFK was the ‘mother of all conspiracy theories’, then 9/11 must be the son. The widespread doubt which has been expressed about the official story is very much the culmination of the many mass disil usionments from the last few decades. The often highly charged debates which have grown up around what at first seemed an irrefutable occurrence neatly distil most conspiracy theory staples under one umbrel a. All the classic elements are present: the al egations of a state-sponsored false-flag attack to create a mandate for oppressive control and desired conflicts; problematic forensic evidence; contradictions and holes in the official version of events; clear evidence of obfuscation in official reports; and events which seem to contravene both common sense and the laws of physics – according to the theorists. A number of other thematical y related events, such as the London 7/7 bombings, have attracted similar scrutiny.

i) 9/11

A False-Flag Event?

The criteria listed in the paragraph above are only the very basics of the claims that the truth has not been told about the notorious 170

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9/11 and related conspiracies

attacks which took place on 11 September 2001. It stands to

reason that they are savagely denied by those affronted at the very idea that there is even an alternative view on the official version of events. The orthodoxy, as indelibly enforced in the mainstream,

holds that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network arranged

for the hijacks of four jet liners, which, now piloted by terrorists, were flown into the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon

and woods in Pennsylvania respectively, killing around 3,000

people. This narrative has already passed into dark legend, and, as such, needs little reiteration here. Yet, deep in the collective gut, it is hard to deny that there is a disquiet about what real y happened on 9/11.

The widespread doubt that has grown by the year is evidenced

by the pol s conducted for 9/11’s tenth anniversary, which exposed the remarkable reality that something approaching half the global population had doubts about the official story. In the UK, the

ICM poll service ‘found that more people agree than disagree

that the official account of what happened on 9/11 might turn

out to be wrong in important respects’. Indeed, only 8 per cent

of respondents ‘strongly agreed’ with what they had been told to

believe.1 The conspiracy view has once again become mainstream

without anyone quite realizing it, yet this striking lack of faith is repeatedly misrepresented or ignored by the media, and attacked

by Western politicians. Questioning 9/11 is often blocked by the

stance that doing so is ‘disrespectful’ to the victims and their

families. Truthseekers counter that it is more disrespectful not to re-examine every detail of the episode, in the hope that uncovering the real truth might help prevent future atrocities.

It should be noted that the use of the term ‘conspiracy’ in this

context refers to those views which refute the official position; it is a long-noted irony that, for all the establishment’s apparent distaste towards such thinking, the bin Laden/al-Qaeda

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