US invented air attack on Pentagon, claims French book

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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:16:29 +0100
US invented air attack on Pentagon, claims French book 

A new book claiming that the plane that ploughed into the Pentagon on
September 11 never existed, and that the US establishment itself was at
the heart of the New York and Washington attacks, has shot to the top of
the French bestseller lists to indignation on both sides of the
Atlantic. 
The Frightening Fraud, by Thierry Meyssan, sold out its original run of
20,000 copies within two hours of going on sale. "We've sold 2,500
copies in 10 days, when a blockbuster novel sells maybe 1,500 in a
month," a spokesman at Fnac Les Halles, one of France's biggest
bookshops, said. "It's a phenomenon." 

Mr Meyssan's conspiracy theory argues that American Airlines flight 77,
which killed 189 people when it smashed into the headquarters of the US
defence department, did not exist, and that the whole disaster was a
dastardly plot dreamed up and implemented by the US government. 

Mr Meyssan is president of the Voltaire Network, a respected independent
thinktank whose left-leaning research projects have until now been
considered models of reasonableness and objectivity. 

"This theory suits everyone - there are no Islamic extremists and
everyone is happy. It eliminates reality," said Le Nouvel Observateur,
while Libération called the book "The Frightening Confidence Trick... a
tissue of wild and irresponsible allegations, entirely without
foundation".  

Mr Meyssan's argument, which started out as a rumour on the internet and
has risen to prominence largely thanks to the author's reputation and
chatshow appearances, suggests that the plane could not have existed
because eye-witness statements are contradictory, there are suspiciously
few photographs of the catastrophe and none of them shows any wreckage.
Even the rescue workers' accounts, published on the Pentagon website,
are not convincing, he says. 

He also asks why the facade of the Pentagon did not immediately collapse
from the shock of the impact, and questions the fate of the plane's
passengers. "What became of the passengers of American Airlines flight
77? Are they dead?" 

Le Monde admitted that the information made public by Washington did not
entirely add up. "There is no official account of the crash. The lack of
information is feeding the rumour," it complained. 

Source:  The Guardian

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