http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060803-1337Did U.S. government officials assist in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or at the very least took no action to stop them just so the United States could go to war in the Middle East? Fully 36 percent of Americans believe this is "very likely" or "somewhat likely," according to a new poll of 1,010 adults conducted by Scripps Howard/Ohio University.
The Scripps Howard News Service reports that 16 percent of Americans think the government secretly planted explosives in the World Trade Center to cause the Twin Towers to collapse and that they did not fall because two jetliners purposely plowed into them. In addition, fully 54 percent of those polled said they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be. "Widespread resentment and alienation toward the national government appears to be fueling a growing acceptance of conspiracy theories about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," write Scripps Howard reporters Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III. Of those who believe the government is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, 70 percent say they are angrier with the government than they used to be. People who use the Internet are more likely to believe in a 9/11 conspiracy theory that involves the federal government.