[wordup] more conspiracy theories ...

[Adam Shand]

a workmate just pointed me at a book called "a frightening fraud" by 
frenchman thierry meyssan.

i've only just started to research it but apparently he's quite a well 
respected academic who claims that a group of politically influential 
americans were behind some of the 9-11 attacks.

   "The Frightening Fraud, by Thierry Meyssan, focuses on the effects at
   the crash site being incompatible with the damage that would have been
   caused upon the 757-200 of American Airline’s flying into the famous
   military headquarters. The book offers the alternative explanation
   that the damage was actually caused by “a group of people who had
   authorised access to the Pentagon” - their target being the new Navy
   Command Center. However M. Meyssan, who is also head of the leftwing
   thinktank “the Voltaire Network”, does not offer any explanations of
   what actually happened to flight 77 if it didn’t crash into the
   world’s largest building"

i'm curious if anyone out there knows more about this?  the links i've 
found so far are:

the home page of the book:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.effroyable-imposture.net%2Fdocs%2Findex.php3&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

the "hunt the boeing" site apparently run by meyssan's son:

   http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm

a fairly damning rebutal (which looses some credibility because of these 
words "Note that I haven't read the book — I'm waiting for the movie"):

   http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins040902.asp

commentary:

   http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/05/23/29196.html
   http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/04/27341.html

ah, here we go ... now it's finding the stuff ... here's the snopes 
rebuttal:

   http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm

adam.