Lecture 7: Micro Origin of 911 (II) –
American Conspiracy Theory
-- “Real Conspiracy” Vs
“American Crisis Management”
19th February 2003 (Wednesday)
Structure of Lecture 7:
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Logic of Conspiracy Theories
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Types of Conspiracy Theories:
“True Believers” and the “Quasi Believers”
Motivations of the American Conspiracy in 911
“Evidence” of the True Believers
Counter-evidence against the True Believers
Conclusion – Our Stand
PART I
Logic of Conspiracy Theories
Origin of Conspiracy Theories
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Why are there Conspiracy
Theories?
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De-legitimization of Official History
“Trusted History” Vs “Wild History”
“Unanswered Questions” in Official
Documents (Deaths/ Mistakes/
Money)
Ancient Palace Politics
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Yongzheng Dynasty (1722-1735)
The Bottom-up Logic
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Assessing the Victors, instead of Victims
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From Victims to Victors
“V-V Logic”
Who are the Victors?
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Those gained power after the incident (e.g. Bush)
Those gained money after the incident (e.g. Military)
Those escaped from punishment after the incident
(e.g. Israel)
“Classic Conspiracies”
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A Proven History:
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Imperial Japan & Manchurian
Crisis (1931)
An Unproven History:
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USA & Pearl Harbor Incident
(1941)
Conspiracy of Other Natures
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The “Moon Conspiracy” of the US
Government and the Aliens
Types of Believers
of the 911 Conspiracy
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“Quasi-believers”:
 USA did not plan the whole plot
 Conspired to the unexpected incident
 Excellent Crisis Management
 e.g. anti-war scholars (Noam Chomsky)
“Genuine Believers”:
 USA planned the whole plot
 Top-secret: only the few planners know
 e.g. spy-novel writers (Thierry Meyssan:
911 The Big Lie)
Assigned Readings
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Main Text: Noam Chomsky: “Who Are
the Global Terrorists?” (B&D P.128-137)
Supplementary Text:
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Desmond Ball: “Desperately Seeking Bin
Laden: The Intelligence Dimension of the
War Against Terrorism.” (B&D P.60-73).
Steve Smith: “Unanswered Questions.”
(B&D P.48-59)
Thierry Meyssan: 911 The Big Lie
PART II
Motivations of American
Conspiracy in 911
Deficiencies of Pre-911 World Order
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Cold War: Bipolarity
Post-Cold War:
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Uni-polarity?
But what if Multi-polarity?
Potential Rivals:
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Rising Power: China, European Union, Japan
Contained Power: Russia
Unexpected Power: Osama Bin Laden
Economic Conspiracies
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The Oil Scramble
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The Iraqi Oil Fields
The Natural Gas Scramble
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Discovery of Caspian Sea Gas
Fields – the New Middle East
Natural Gas Pipe:
Uzbekistan  Afghanistan 
Iran  Iraq  Turkey (Black
Sea)
Alienation from Russia
Deposition of Taliban in
Afghanistan
The Natural Gas Plan
Personal Ambition
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The Psychological Freudian
Analysis
George W Bush
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The Fraternity Youth
Legacy from George Bush Sr.
Shadow of Governor Jeb Bush
The 2000 Presidential Election
Yale Tri-centenary Speech
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“If you are graduating with A, well done. However,
if you are graduating with C+, you are even better,
because you can be the American president.
Even if you dropped out, you can still be the vicepresident.”
-- President George W Bush (2001)
PART III
Evidence of the True Believers?
Intelligence “Carelessness”
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Ignored Warnings before 911?
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Annual Reports of Federal Aviation Administration
(1999-2000)
Centenary Warning at LAX Airport (2000)
Independence Day Warning against US Airports
(2001)
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“The 20th Hijacker”
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Desmond Ball: “The Intelligence Dimension of
the War Against Terrorism.”
Steve Smith: “Unanswered Questions”
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Iron Triangle: the Source of
American Conspiracies
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Military Plan against Iraq since Gulf War (1990)
“Iron Triangle” in US Politics
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Military (weapon makers)
Industrial (millionaires who need fuel)
Executive (make decisions on war)
Why they conspired to make wars?
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Distribution of Iraqi Oil Fields among US Industrial
Complex
Mass Production of US Weapons
Funding from Military and Industrial to the Republican
Party
The JFK Case
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Assassination of President John F Kennedy (1963)
“Unanswered Questions”:
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The Lone Murderer and the “Magic Bullet”
The Cover-ups; Murder of the Murderer
Oliver Stone: JFK
“Victors”?
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President Lyndon Johnson
Military-Industrial-Executive Complex
The Ones Escalated the Vietnam War
PART IV
Counter-Evidence against the
True Believers
Economic Balance Sheet
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Economic Losses:
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The Whole World Trade Tower
Wall Street Stock Market
Insurance Industry
Aviation Industry
Auditing Industry
Chain Effect, Worldwide Economy
Total: Direct Loss of US$33-36 billions
What are the gains?!
Bureaucratic Politics
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Federal Government:
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Decision-making Process:
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Separation of Power
Check and Balance System:
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Departments, Commissions, Advisors…
Regional Government, Legislature, Judiciary…
Easy Leaking of Information
The Real “Accountability System”: Why do you
take the risk?
PART V
Conclusion – “Sometimes
Naïve. I’m Angry!”
Blind-spots of the Conspiracy
Logics: the Tautology
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When you’re the gainer, conspiracies are almost
impossible to be proven
But when you become the loser of the situation,
there will always be conspiracies to be made
against you…
Precedence of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,
the “Dreamland of Conspiracies”
Usage of the Conspiracy Theory
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Alienation between Allied-members and
between a united nation
Interests of Readers
Money of Writers
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Joined-interest of Re-writers!
Position of the Course:
America as a Superb Crisis Manager
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Iraqi Crisis and the “Saddam-Laden Link”
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Against Real Conspiracy Believer: why didn’t attack
Iraq from the first place?
“Quasi-Conspiracy Believer:
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911 is a surprise to America, their instant response is
to revenge, to revenge against the real planner as
they believe, Osama Bin Laden.
When time flies, the Americans are aware of the
situation become very advantageous to them, so they
make use of the whole situation to expand its power
in the regions that it wanted to expand for decades.
The Latest Bin Laden
Prophecy (Feb 2003)
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“It is clear that the preparations to attack Iraq are
part of a series of attacks prepared for nations of
the region including Syria, Iran, Egypt and
Sudan”…
“The aim of the Crusaders’ campaign is to
prepare the atmosphere for the establishment of
the so-called greater Israel state, which includes
great parts of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and large
portions of (Saudi Arabia)”…
~~The End~~
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