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William Seger

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1. "The story has been cited ever since by some as evidence..."
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 09:47 AM
Feb 2015

"... that the 9/11 attacks were part of a US government conspiracy."

I would quibble with that statement, in that while I have seen it cited by conspiracists as if it was evidence of something or other, I've never seen any conspiracist actually attempt to present a rational hypothesis or explanation of why they believed it's evidence of a conspiracy. On the one hand, conspiracists claim that the quick identification of the hijackers is suspicious, and yet they turn around and claim that if some of the identifications were wrong, that's suspicious, too -- a fairly common occurrence from people whose "reasoning" works in reverse.

After initial confusion about similar names, there is no evidence that any of the people finally identified as hijackers and shown in that poster is still alive. (In fact, an al Qaeda video titled The Nineteen Martyrs accepts those identifications.) But before going into that long-since discredited claim, how about taking a crack at your own explanation of why you think it matters: Do you take the story "as evidence that the 9/11 attacks were part of a US government conspiracy," and if so, why?

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