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Lauren Houle (Login adurand)
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Posted Feb 27, 2007 8:10 PM
The Pentagon's Phantom Plane is one of the mysteries that I cannot get over. Members of the press were kept away from the scene, "not to hinder rescue operations"? There was no interception, and US Armed Forces remained passive during the attack? I don't understand what happened to the plane at the Pentagon, and why only FEMA's special Urban Search and Rescue teams came into contact with the plane.
However, I have to say that while the idea of 9/11 as a big lie is tempting to believe, I have to agree with Kristen that many of the points in Meyssan's book seemed over the top. One was the point he made that the hijackers carried cutters, and then the CIA later discovered cutters in a house in Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden once had stayed. Also, on p.32, his statement that "In the public's collective imagination, it's a well-known fact that Arabs, and thus Islamic militants, like to slit their victim's throats. The cutters allowed people to infer that all the hijackers were Arabs, although this remains to be proven".
It seems like he is really preying on the American public's willingness to quickly associate Islam or Arabs with terrorism.
There seemed to be some typos/grammatical errors in the book, which in my mind discredited the author further. On page 55, he was talking about the number of innocent victims on each plane and wrote, "46 on United Airlines flight 77, (which crashed into the South Tower), 51 on American Airlines flight 77 (the one that supposedly crashed into the Pentagon)". He obviously meant to say 175 instead of 77, but still. Get a publisher to proofread your book before it's published! (In fact, one of you or some other previous reader wrote in the margin "wtf? edit". I'm glad you noticed it too.
While the book was entertaining to read, I really can't imagine that so many government and military officials could be in on a plot that would kill thousands of American civillians solely for the US government's personal agenda: to give them an excuse to start a war against Afghanistan, Iraq, or anyone else whom this "war on terrorism" will be against in the future. I'm completely agreeing with Kristen's statement, "I cannot see most appointees and elected officials engaging in some grandiose and universal scheme of 9/11." |
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