Re: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Gain Ground
Кристьян Робам <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jun 2022 02:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
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2001 9 11 was a demonstration to negros of the power of whites. ******************************************************** Phone: 372 53900660 Yours Truly kirjutas Laupäev, 13. september 2003 kl 08:10:07 UTC+2: > In article <[email protected]>, President, USA Exile Govt. > says... > > > >Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): > > > >Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species. > > > >NOTE: Thanks to Brian Salter for this; the last half of this piece > >is rubbish but the first half is quite quite helpful. -- kl, pp > > > >http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/268874.htm > > > >9/11 conspiracy theories gain ground Ralf Isermann Posted Mon, 08 > >Sep 2003 > > > >Conspiracy theories on the September 11 attacks are gaining ground > >in Germany two years on, with books claiming that the US government > >was behind the atrocities climbing bestseller lists. > > > >Thanks to a handful of new "non-fiction" works in bookstores, wild > >accusations have gradually become part of public debate amid a > >sizeable minority in Germany, home to the so-called Hamburg cell > >that in 2001 produced three of the suicide hijackers. > > > >Although each book has a different take on the events of that day, > >they share the premise that the government of US President George > >W. > > > >Bush planned the kamikaze jet attacks or allowed them to happen to > >advance a radical foreign policy agenda. > > > >Frankfurt-based publishing house Zweitausendeins (2001) boasts the > >runaway success of Mathias Broecker's book 'Conspiracies, Conspiracy > >Theories and the Secrets of September 11' on its website, with more > >than 105 000 copies sold in 10 months. A follow-up volume has just > >hit bookstores. > > > >Broecker, a former journalist with the leftist daily Tageszeitung, > >argues that dozens of "unanswered questions" about the attacks point > >to a spectacular cover-up on the part of the US administration. > > > >More than 70 000 Germans have also bought 'The CIA and September > >11' by former federal research minister Andreas von Buelow, in which > >he argues the planes were piloted into targets in New York and > >Washington not by Islamic extremists but rather by remote control. > > > >A third work, 'Operation 9/11' by public television reporter Gerhard > >Wisnewski, claims that the twin towers of the World Trade Centre > >were wired with explosives, has already secured a fourth print-run > >after three weeks in stores. > > > >France's Thierry Meysson has found success at home and in Germany > >with '9/11: The Big Lie', which argues that the attack on the > >Pentagon was an attempted coup d'etat by US military officials to > >justify future wars. > > > >Influential news weekly Der Spiegel tackled the phenomenon of > >crackpot theories in the cover story of its edition released on > >Monday, before this week's second anniversary of the attacks. > > > >The article meticulously knocks down the most popular conspiracy > >theories making the rounds and attributes their popularity in Germany > >in part to the deep unpopularity here of the conservative US > >administration. > > > >Social psychologist Heiner Keupp told AFP that conspiracy theories > >served a basic human need, leading to the remarkable success of > >such books. > > > >"People have the feeling after reading them that they understand > >something about this complicated and inscrutable world," Keupp said, > >adding that a healthy dose of paranoia was also usually part of the > >equation. > > > >Mass communications expert Rudolf Stoeber said that the shock of > >the September 11 attacks made the search for simple answers to > >complex events particularly tempting. > > > >He said he found it particularly striking that young people appeared > >most susceptible to such arguments. > > > >A survey produced by the respected Forsa institute and published > >in the weekly Die Zeit in July found that 31 percent of Germans > >under the age of 30 believed the US government was directly involved > >in the September 11 attacks. > > > >Amid all age groups, the rate was "only" 19 percent. > > > >"September 11 was so irrational. We are raised that there has to > >be a rational solution and that is why we look for one," said > >Stoeber. > > > >He also saw cultural ignorance as a factor in explaining why Germany > >has given fertile ground to theories that seem unthinkable to most. > > > >"We don't understand Islam and have no idea about the lives of the > >attackers. That is why we prefer to look in our own cultural circles > >for possible causes for the incomprehensible," he said. > > > >AFP