The clean-cut young men sipping pints of beer in a pub in the City of London are not the wide-eyed bunch one imagines at a meeting of conspiracy theorists. All have sensible nine-to-five jobs and are polite, eloquent and intelligent.
Yet all are so convinced that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, orchestrated by the US government to justify an aggressive and expensive foreign policy, probably achieved by a controlled explosion inside the towers, that they devote hours a week to spreading the word.
They leaflet shoppers every Saturday afternoon, they organise lectures, they demonstrate outside the US embassy and they build websites to spread the word.
Six years after the attacks, the men in the pub - who belong to a group called 'We are Change' - are not alone. Across Britain and
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katharine hibbert meets a group who seriously believe that George Bush destroyed the Twin Towers |
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America, similar local groups have been set up to propagate similar theories.
A US poll found that 36 per cent of Americans believed it 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' that their government was involved in allowing the attacks or had carried them out itself. Although the overwhelming majority of academics, engineers and architects accept the official story, a US society called Scholars for 9/11 Truth counts at least 80 leading academics as members.
Ask the men gathered in the London pub, whose ethnic origins and social backgrounds are an equal-opportunities dream, why they don't believe the mainstream account of how the 2,974 people in the World Trade Centre were killed, and their doubts come in a clamour.
"What about Building Seven, a 47-storey skyscraper that collapsed into its own footprint the same day  |
The CIA (or Mossad or China) did it
You are still a coward, Mr Bush
9/11 - the comic book
