A great way to make big $$$

[StuTheWise]

Well, I think this is a rather disgusting way to make money, but it worked for this guy...

By ANGELA DOLAND

PARIS (AP) - Thierry Meyssan says he got four death threats on Monday alone - and that's a normal day for him.

Meyssan is the author of an incendiary book claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and that all the attacks that day were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military.

The book has been widely ridiculed by the entire French media. But somehow it's been a hit, scoring in the top 10 on best seller lists for three months, though it's been slipping lately.

So who's reading the book? All kinds of people, French bookstores say.

"Women, men, old people, young people, people from every walk of life," said Nathalie Pageot of the Gibert Jeune bookstore on Paris' Left Bank. "It's the biggest seller in the history and politics category in at least 10 years."

Why?

In a new book refuting Meyssan's theories, authors Guillaume Dasquie and Jean Guisnel say that some French "adore these cranks telling them that they are victims of plots, that the truth is being hidden from them, that one must not accept the official version."

Now the book is coming to the United States. Its English title: "9-11, The Big Lie."

"I don't claim to have definitively resolved all these enigmas," Meyssan told The Associated Press. "But the central theme of the book is that the official version of events is incomplete, and false."

Meyssan suggests that a right-wing faction inside the U.S. military masterminded the Sept. 11 attacks in order to advance a military agenda, including waging war in Afghanistan.

He contends that an American missile, not a plane, struck the Pentagon. Pointing to pictures taken after the crash, he says the hole in the building doesn't correspond to the shape of a plane and its wings.

Asked, then, what happened to American Airlines Flight 77 and the people aboard, Meyssan said: "That's one of the questions I don't have a response for."

Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke, speaking at a Defense Department news conference Tuesday, said the allegations in the book were "more than insulting."

"There is no question, there is no doubt what happened that day," she said. "And I think it's appalling that anyone might try to put out that kind of myth."

The French media have been largely silent about Meyssan's book since a brief initial flurry of articles in March - some of which attempted to discredit him with their own investigations.

In the book, Meyssan, an activist with his own left-wing association called the "Voltaire Network," suggests possibilities without making firm conclusions.

He wonders, for example: How could hijacker Mohammed Atta's passport have been found intact in the smoking World Trade Center debris?

"Everything collapses and the passport is intact under the ruins?" he says. "That's ridiculous."

Meyssan suggests there's no real proof Atta was on board, and says the planes might not have been hijacked but possibly directed by remote control.

It was when Meyssan appeared on a talk show in March that sales of the book took off. In one week, there were 130,000 orders.

The book's success prompted Dasquie and Guisnel, two intelligence specialists, to write their counterattack. In French, Meyssan's book is called "The Horrifying Fraud"; the response to it is titled "The Horrifying Lie."

"It seemed incredibly dangerous to me that someone could take advantage of public ignorance on this subject," said Dasquie, the editor of a newsletter called Intelligence Online.

"I was really shocked because he was claiming to respond to ... questions and fears, but without doing any investigation or ground work."

Most of Meyssan's work is based on public documents, the Internet and newspaper articles, he says. He did not actually go to the United States to carry out research, but he says he had correspondents working for him there.

The book is published by Editions Carnot, a small publisher whose other titles include a book questioning whether the 1969 moon landing was a fraud, as well as the "Incisive Confessions of a Dentist."

The book will be released in late July in the United States, publisher Patrick Pasin said. A companion book, "Pentagate," which attempts to answer some questions left unanswered in the first book, will be included in the same volume.

 

[Guest]

did a plane really hit the pentagon? i'm not so sure

 

[Luis G]

no comment.

 

[Guest]

oh sure

 

[Jeslek]

Well considering that a friend in Everquest's brother was in the towers...

What about all the eyewitnesses that saw a plane? I doubt several thousand people + their cameras can be wrong.

French are nuts.

 

[Luis G]

Originally posted by LastLegionary
Well considering that a friend in Everquest's brother was in the towers...

What about all the eyewitnesses that saw a plane? I doubt several thousand people + their cameras can be wrong.

French are nuts.

The article estates that "no plane hit the Pentagon".

 

[Guest]

does anyone have a picture of a plane going into the pentagon? i am not doubting the wtc, but the pentagon has yet to show that there was a plane. where's the proof? ?(

 

[fury]

If the government really was willing to kill 3000 people just to have a reason to go to war with Afghanistan, then it's high time we overthrew the government.

 

[Guest]

i just want to see a piece the plane that supposedly hit the pentagon. i've yet to see one?

 

[StuTheWise]

Why would they fake a plane crash into the Pentagon? And like the man said, what ever happened to flight 77 and the people onboard?

These conspiracy theorists really get me sometimes. No doubt it goes on (remember the trial of Ollie North?), but not to these extremes I'm sure (fake moonlanding, government launching missiles into Pentagon, Roswell etc.)

I heard a theory from some crazy lady that the first WTC bombing was setup by the gov in order to weaken the buildings' structure in preparation for 9/11. The reason? The gov wanted an excuse to rebuild the WTC buildings... Say what?

 

[StuTheWise]

Although... it is, to say the least, an interesting point he brings up about it not appearing as if it were a plane:

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[samcurry]

check this out

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god this reminds me of the movie "wag the dog"

 

[outside looking in]

LOL! You know there are no such things as nuclear weapons, right? All the tests were faked. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acually wiped out with biological weapons and conventional bombing.

In fact, we don't even have the technology to launch ICBM's, much less put objects into space. Fake moon landing? Ha! How about all the communication "satellites" actually being a fleet of conventional airplanes equipped with recieving, amplification, and retransmission electronics. It's all a cover up to make the Russians think we have such capability.

Where's my tin-foil hat anyway.....

 

[Justintime]

Theres alot of evidence to suggest it was not a plane, guess we'll never know

 

[Guest]

dunno but i have wonder

 

[HomeLAN]

You're always going to have your share of cracked conspiracy theories when something like this happens. Sane people look at the facts, decide it's BS, and move on.

The only thing that bothers me is that this sounds like a lot of the crap I've been reading here over the past few weeks. And some of you actually believe it.