WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The 911 Operators: Who Profited from 9/11?

"Almost everyone agrees, September 11, 2001 was a really lousy day in America. Thousands died horrible and violent public deaths– in airplanes, in burning and collapsing buildings, and by jumping out skyscraper windows. All of us around New York City who watched two of the tallest buildings in the world burn and fall will never forget watching something macabre and previously unimaginable take place that morning.

It was easy to take it personal around here-- Photocopy posters everywhere bearing the photos of the missing, people spontaneously sobbing on the street on in the subway, and the sick smoldering stench that lingered around here for months. It wasn’t until weeks later that I realized that people all over the country were probably just as affected simply by the constant replaying of slickly edited movie-trailer style videos of the day's disasters on television.
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There hasn’t been this massive of a conspiracy cottage industry surrounding one day’s events since the Kennedy Assassination. A CNN online poll conducted in November 2004 with over 10,000 respondents found that 89% percent of those participating believed there was a government coverup of surrounding 9-11. While that’s hardly scientific, it does show that more than a few people out there think there was something fishy going on that day. And New Yorkers? A real scientific poll conducted by Zogby International during the summer of 2004 found that nearly half the city’s residents believe “U.S. leaders had foreknowledge of impending 9/11 attacks and "consciously failed to act.” (more at link)
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