] "Out there--beyond newspaper conference rooms and
] Congressional offices--alternative scenarios and
] conspiracy theories have been zapping across the Internet
] for months. George W. Bush did it. The Mossad did it. The
] CIA did it. Or they purposely did not thwart the
] assault--either to have an excuse for war, to increase
] the military budget or to replace the Taliban with a
] government sympathetic to the West and the oil industry.
] The theories claim that secret agendas either caused the
] attacks or drove the post-9/11 response, and these dark
] accounts have found an audience of passionate devotees. "

An informed, more objective analysis of some of the popular 9/11 conspiracy theories.

...sort of. People who want to believe in a conspiracy will do so regardless. And of course, I can't trust this guys reporting any better then anyone else's. However, it seems reasonably sober.

I meme this for one reason alone. I concur with the author that I want to know what the deal was with insider trading on the 911 event. No one has ever explained what the story was there. It just faded away. Its worth recalling every once in a while that there are loose ends that people are being awefully quiet about. I can't even think of a good set of circumstances that would lead them to simply trapping up about that.

As for the flight, I think its possible that they shot it down. We know that this was AUTHORIZED so if we are going to have a problem with it, we ought to. I don't. Furthermore, put yourself in their shoes, trying to figure out how to explain this, and imagine that hero story poping up. Yeah, I'd keep my mouth shut too. It doesn't matter except as a matter of policy, and if the policy issue should be debated, then we have standing to do so, because they were authorized to shoot it down. I don't disagree with the policy decision. Do you?