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CONSPIRACY 1
The 9/11 Conspiracies
The
evidence is overwhelming that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
were indeed the result of a conspiracy. There's no doubt about it: A
close (or even cursory) look at the evidence makes it clear that it was
carefully planned and executed by conspirators. The question, of course,
is who those conspirators were. Osama bin Laden and the crew of (mostly
Saudi) hijackers were part of the conspiracy, but what about President
Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney? Did top Bush advisors, including
Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, either collaborate with bin Laden,
or intentionally allow the attacks to happen? Put another way, was it an
inside job? Conspiracy theorists believe so, and point to a catalog of
supposed inconsistencies in the "official version" of the attacks. Many
of the technical conspiracy claims were debunked by Popular Mechanics
magazine in March 2005, while other claims are refuted by simple logic:
If a hijacked airplane did not crash into the Pentagon, as is often
claimed, then where is Flight 77 and its passengers? Are they with the
Roswell aliens at Hangar 18? In many conspiracy theories, bureaucratic
incompetence is often mistaken for conspiracy. Our government is so
efficient, knowledgeable, and capable—so the reasoning goes—that it
could not possibly have botched the job so badly in detecting the plot
ahead of time or responding to the attacks. I find that hard to believe.
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