Reply #10: ludicrous fairy tales [View All]

"The events of Sept 11 have spawned their fair share of ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is - sadly, a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis. One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden from a cave, with no inside help or apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell. These crackpots even contend that the Bush administration was caught unaware by the attacks, even though there was a summer of the "system blinking red". Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider trading on airline stocks - linked to the CIA, etc..Conspiracy theorists stick to a silly story about 19 lone Arab hijackers who were reportedly under surveillence beforehand, somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours, crashing them into important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and despite 67 intercepts that year alone, without the Air Force knowing what to do when it happened."

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