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The CIA (or Mossad or China) did it

9/11 five years on: The First Post presents its guide to the top 10 conspiracy theories

NEO-CONS

Neo-cons at the Council on Foreign Relations initiated or permitted the attacks to initiate US conflict in the Middle East, and establish America as the sole global power. In 2000 they'd said that only an event like a new Pearl Harbour could catalyse such militarism. While at the University of Chicago, it's claimed, future neocons Wolfowitz and Leith used to talk 'all the time' about such things.

MOSSAD

Israeli agents orchestrated events to involve America in battles with enemies of the Jewish state. This theory plays particularly on the news that five men with links to Mossad and with lots of money in their socks were seen preparing to film the attacks.

FRIENDS IN OIL

Seventy-five top professors and scientists comprising '9/11 Scholars For Truth' believe people in the oil industry, along with

 

President Bush, puppetered the events to secure oil reserves. They arranged a 'stand-down' of the air-force for the event. Some see a cover-up to protect the Saudi royal family and Enron's interests in Afghanistan. Others see an Al-Qaeda chain of command which ran through pro-Western Saudis and Pakistani intelligence to forces in the US (and MI6).

PSYCHOS

Scientologists have claimed that 'Thetan psychologists', with evil in mind, controlled the hijackers' actions using 'drugs and psycho-political methods'.

THE TOWERS' OWNERS

This theory proposes that the destruction of the towers required explosive demolition. Ownership of the building had changed, for the first time, shortly before the 9/11 attacks, and new owner Larry Silverstein made a $500m insurance profit. Theorists note that John O'Neill, a senior counter-intelligence officer (who had resigned from the FBI in August 2001) took over security at the WTC on the day of the attacks.

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