9/11: Nirvana For Conspiracy Theorists

The coming Monday isn't any ordinary Monday. It will be five years going since 19 young men hi-jacked four airliners and turned them into giant suicide terrorism bombs killing several thousand innocent people of a wide range of ethnic, religious/non-religious background.

Ever since that day, people have been speculating on the perpetrators. Pure al-Qaida most of us would say (they have after all taken credit for it over and over again...). But for an increasing number of people, in and outside the U.S., there is something missing in the picture.

I can recommend a post in the Foreign Policy Magazines blog "Passport" by James Forsyth. Forsyth writes about a recent poll claiming "that 36 percent of Americans think it is likely that the federal government either knew of or was involved in the attacks" and that "[s]ixteen percent think it is likely that explosives played a role in bringing down the towers and 12 percent believe that the Pentagon was hit by a missile fired by the U.S. military."

I refuse to link to any of the nutcase homepages that are on the verge of drowning the internet with all of its conspiracies on 9/11, the Iraqi war and so on. The most stupid ones always ends up in blaiming the.... (Yes, you know what I'm referring to). There are theories that are convincing for a brief moment - some even very convincing with their detailed and meticously "researched" movies backing up the theory (where the hell do they get the time and money to produce them?). But in general, these are just warriors of the darkest wasteland of all (the internet). The polls described by Forsyth unfortunately signal that they have an increasing amount of readers and believers.

On Monday, the will go nuts once again. The internet will flood in an orgy of conspiracy theories. I wish that these people could find a healthier purpose in life.