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...website praises the works of French author Thierry Meyssan, whose works include Those who Challenged Israel, The Role of Jews in Distorting Arab Images in the Western Culture and The Appalling Fraud, a book that alleges that the U.S. staged the September 11, 2001 attacks...
...book The Horrifying Fraud, Frenchman Thierry Meyssan puts forth the ridiculous theory that U.S. government officials were behind the Sept. 11 attacks as an excuse to launch a war on Afghanistan and Iraq [LETTER FROM FRANCE, May 20]. This is preposterous! Meyssan should show some respect for America. He should know that were it not for the U.S. government and our military, all French people, including him, might be speaking German today! EDMOND ROBERT MANSOOR Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...shadow of every national tragedy, there's always someone standing there, pointing his finger at the government and calling it a conspiracy. That Meyssan could even consider that the U.S. government would cause such a tragedy as Sept. 11 is bad enough. But that he is profiting from a best seller full of such screwed-up nonsense is worse! JEFF FISHER Decatur, Mich...
...Meyssan's scenario is goofy. How would the French have reacted to a crazy theory that the terrorist bombings in Paris during the '80s were the result of a French right-wing conspiracy to shake up the Socialist government? The French would have called it a ridiculous fantasy. As a French citizen, I feel ashamed that such lunatic propositions are taken seriously in France. THIERRY COURTES DE CARVALHO Rio de Janeiro...
...Meyssan's 9/11 speculation isn't entirely surprising: he heads a quirky group called Reseau Voltaire, which defends free thought and speech from a perceived host of nefarious threats. More surprising was the rush of French readers, who had so earnestly commiserated with a wounded America, to get a copy of the tract. French observers say the fascination has more to do with the entertainment value of spooky, over-the-top conspiracy scenarios than it does with blossoming anti-American paranoia. The publisher, Carnot, plans to release an English-language translation this month and an additional 18 foreign-language versions...