CONSPIRACY THEORIES

9/11 conspiracy theories gaining ground

A stack of books rushing off the shelves:
France's Thierry Meysson has found success 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.
Frankfurt-based publishing house Zweitausendeins boasts the runaway success of Mathias Broecker's book 'Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories and the Secrets of September 11'.
A former journalist with a leftist daily argues that dozens of 'unanswered questions' about the September 11 attacks in the US point to a spectacular cover-up on the part of the US administration.
A former federal research minister in Germany, Andreas von Buelow, argues the planes were piloted into targets in New York and Washington not by Islamic extremists but rather by remote control.
And 'Operation 9/11' by public television reporter Gerhard Wisnewski, claims that the twin towers of the World Trade Centre were wired with explosives.
Social psychologist Heiner Keupp says 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."

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