Since the attacks, a variety of conspiracy theories have been put forward in Web sites, books, and films. Many groups and individuals advocating 9/11 conspiracy theories identify as part of the 9/11 Truth movement. Within six hours of the attack, a suggestion appeared on an Internet chat room suggesting that the collapse of the towers looked like an act of controlled demolition. “If, in a few days, not one official has mentioned anything about the controlled demolition part,” the author wrote, “I think we have a REALLY serious problem.”The first theories that emerged focused primarily on various perceived anomalies in the publicly available evidence, and proponents later developed more specific theories about an alleged plot.
One false allegation that was widely circulated by e-mail and on the Web is that not a single Jew had been killed in the attack and that therefore the attacks must have been the work of the Mossad, not Islamic terrorists. The first elaborated theories appeared in Europe. One week after the attacks, the “inside job” theory was the subject of a thesis by a researcher from the French National Centre for Scientific Research published in Le Monde. Other theories sprang from the far corners of the globe within weeks. Six months after the attacks, Thierry Meyssan’s piece on 9/11, L’Effroyable Imposture, topped the French bestseller list. Its publication in English (as 9/11: The Big Lie) received little attention, but it remains one of the principal sources for “trutherism”.
2003 saw the publication of The CIA and September 11 by former German state minister Andreas von Bülow and Operation 9/11 by the German journalist Gerhard Wisnewski; both books are published by Mathias Bröckers, who was at the time an editor at the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung. While these theories were popular in Europe, they were treated by the U.S. media with either bafflement or amusement, and they were dismissed by the U.S. government as the product of anti-Americanism.
In an address to the United Nations on November 10, 2001, United States President George W. Bush denounced the emergence of “outrageous conspiracy theories that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.” The 9/11 conspiracy theories started out mostly in the political left but have broadened into what New York Magazine describes as “terra incognita where left and right meet, fusing sixties countercultural distrust with the don’t-tread-on-me variety”. Here below, you can watch an amazing piece of work from YouTube, that should be shown on every channel on every TV station in every country. Enjoy…