9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda

A recent example is the belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States.

Conspiracy theories are by no means a strictly domestic phenomenon;they can easily be found all over the world. Among sober-minded Canadians,a September 2006 poll found that 22 percent believe that“the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden and were actually a plot by influential Americans.”

In a poll conducted in seven Muslim countries, 78 percent of respondents

said that they do not believe the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Arabs.

The most popular account, in these countries, is that 9/11 was the work of the U.S. or Israeli governments.

                                 

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