Completely nut – or truth?

It is like the Arabs who should be the best at conspiracy theories. Well, to distress Americans too. But the Europeans? Many of us have had both Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment?

No, it must be wrong – probably an allegation made by the Jewish lobby in Washington to ridicule well-founded war resistance.

terror Theories

It is primarily in the face of the terrorist attack 11. September 2001 that Europeans have outdone themselves in creative accounting. A few days before the mark this year, German Der Spiegel presented the hottest theories of the time. They are all about 11. September never occurred, that there was not a plane crashing into the Pentagon and that several of the hijackers were living 12. September.

These are not loose rumors that live their own unofficial life on the internet. They are published in book form and the books sell in buckets and buckets. It was in such a tense atmosphere that a German survey from April showed that one in five Germans believed that September 11 was arranged by George W. Bush himself. Among the young, the number was even higher. One-third – who had not yet turned 30 – believed that the fall of the two towers was controlled from Washington.

Bush is Hitler

In the book "Operation 9/1 – An Attack on the Globe", the German TV journalist Gerhard Wisnewski claims that the Pentagon was hit by a missile rocket and that no plane ever crashed in Pennsylvania. He also believes that the Arab terrorists never wanted to hit the WTC, since the twin towers were not only a symbol of the United States, but of the whole world. And who wants the whole world as an enemy? A TV documentary has been made of the book.

Former Social Democrat research minister Andreas von Bülow, for his part, suspects that the twin towers may have been blown up from inside (in the "CIA and September 11") and strongly suggests that the Israeli security service Mossad was involved. It ended up in 3rd place on Der Spiegel's bestseller list a few weeks after it was published.

Mathias Bröckers, also a journalist (former cultural editor of the Berlin newspaper Tageszeitung), believes that George Bush junior is an incarnation of Hitler and that he is therefore a believer in anything. "Conspiracy, conspiracy theory and the secrets behind 11/100.000 have sold more than XNUMX copies.

One of the evidence underlying both Bröcker's and Bülow's speculative theories is information that the hijackers did not die 11. September, but lived at its best in the days that followed.

The uncomfortable for all those who prefer, for example, the state channel BBC's version of 11. September better, is that the news actually came from them: BBC.

Dead and alive

And of course this is good news for the conspirators, because it means that their sources are official and to be trusted.

On September 23, 2001, the BBC reported that some of the terrorists were allegedly alive and that they were protesting against being characterized as suicide candidates. Der Spiegel called the editors this summer and was informed that the source was Arab newspapers, including Arab News. So Der Spiegel called the English-language Saudi newspaper and got an answer from the editor: “It's ridiculous. People have stopped talking about that a long time ago. "

The reason why Arab News had written what they did after 11. September, was that the FBI had just published at that time navn on the hijackers. The images was not released until September 27. And then the mix of the dead and the living names ended – or "nonsense", as the Arab News editor calls it.

There Spiegel gets confirmed the same story from other Arab newspapers. The misunderstandings were due to conflicting and deficient information in the first days after 11. September. Today, nobody talks about it anymore. Except in Germany.

French opening

However, the guru of the conspirators is not German, but French. Thierry Meyssan has sold over 200.000 copies of his book "11/9: The Big Lie", where he claims, among other things, that it was never a plane that hit the Pentagon, but a missile rocket sent from the US military itself to force increased funding . The proof is simple: the size of the hole. A missile fits. A Boing 757 does not.

Since last year, he has continuously been in court with French newspapers. He claims that the newspapers are making fun of him. He also wants to force the newspapers to write the truth about 11/11. One of the "truths" is that the US authorities knew about 2001/11. One of the proofs is that the internet address wtc2002.com had been registered before XNUMX September. And that, it turns out, is true. The address belongs to the organizers of the "World Track Championships". However, wtcXNUMX.com is dedicated to the reconstruction of the Twin Towers.

The book has been translated into 18 languages, including English. At the online bookstore amazon.com you can buy the book together with the movie "Where was God on September 11?"

Get help

It is part of history that Americans and Arabs have also helped German and French intellectuals in the search for alternative truths. The Lebanese television station al-Manar, which advertises on its website that they are waging "psychological warfare against the Zionist enemy", was active in spreading the news that several thousand Jews were not at work in the WTC buildings on 11 September. The information can be found in Andreas von Bülow's bestseller, as an explanation of why Mossad was involved in the assassination.

The only person in the TV documentary to support the theory that it was a missile that hit the Pentagon instead of a plane is an American named John Judge. He is considered an expert – on "individual and collective mind control". Otherwise, he is known for launching clever solutions to the connection between the murder of JF Kennedy and Malcolm X, among other things.

Americans and Arabs, among others, are conspiring in the conspiracies as well, but that does not explain away the fact that Europeans are currently hooked on big political New Age. Ahead of September 11 this year, the skeptics held a separate conference in Berlin. Among other things, they used the opportunity to soil Der Spiegel with the characteristic "a mouthpiece for Washington". At the same time, on the website 911truth.org, they clearly distance themselves from German neo-Nazis who have tried to patent their "case" with hateful ideology.

scapegoats

Conspiracy theories often appear in the space between major events and incomplete explanations, as was the case with the murder of JF Kennedy. But they also appear in situations where one is in desperate search of scapegoats, as was the case with the anti-Semitic document "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" in Europe in the 1930s.

For Europeans, 11/XNUMX falls into both categories. On the skeptics' website, they write that the status quo is "pro-Americanism". That is, to believe that it was Arab terrorists who hit the WTC with two planes, as well as the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, is pro-Americanism. In other words, not believing it is the opposite of pro-Americanism. Also it has a name. It starts with anti-.

On the other hand, we have more honorable motives. 11. September was incomprehensible, also from Europe. They were incomprehensible because the US has been protecting Europe militarily for more than 50 years. An attack on the very core of this defense, the Pentagon, also showed how vulnerable the defense of Europe is and was.

This is probably the explanation for 11. The September conspiracies are so strong in Europe today. By shifting the focus from Osama bin Laden to George W. Bush, you also focus away from your own guilt. Didn't it appear that several of the terror cells have been staying and preparing in Europe for a long time? And especially in Hamburg, Germany?

Random? Hardly.

At the beginning of November, Humanist publishing house will publish a book on conspiracy theories. If this perspective is not included, it only proves that the book is sponsored by Gerhard Schröder – through the Goethe-Institut.