OUI MONSIEUR, IT'S ON THE FRONT SHELF, NEXT TO THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION :

US invented air attack on Pentagon, claims French book (Jon Henley, April 1, 2002, The Guardian)

The Frightening Fraud, by Thierry Meyssan, sold out its original run of 20,000 copies within two hours of going on sale. "We've sold 2,500 copies in 10 days, when a blockbuster novel sells maybe 1,500 in a month," a spokesman at Fnac Les Halles, one of France's biggest bookshops, said. "It's a phenomenon."

Mr Meyssan's conspiracy theory argues that American Airlines flight 77, which killed 189 people when it smashed into the headquarters of the US defence department, did not exist, and that the whole disaster was a dastardly plot dreamed up and implemented by the US government.

The French media has been quick to dismiss the book's claims, despite the fact that Mr Meyssan is president of the Voltaire Network, a respected independent thinktank whose left-leaning research projects have until now been considered models of reasonableness and objectivity.

Apparently, in Paris it's selling even faster than copies of Mein Kampf did in June 1940.

NB : Check Ed Driscoll for more on the conspiracy theory.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 31, 2002 10:34 PM