ZURICH – In the lead-up to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, old and new Internet conspiracy theories are cropping up in high places in Switzerland. A new website, www.911untersuchen.ch, went online earlier this month with demands from a group of Swiss politicians, academics and media figures to re-open investigations of the 2001 events.
A statement by former Bernese cantonal councilor Dori Schaer says the issue of whether the U.S. government deliberately let the attacks go ahead, or indeed even staged them, remains unanswered. While Schaer considers outrageous the idea that the George W. Bush administration would deliberately sacrifice nearly 3,000 people to reach its political goals, she apparently doesn’t exclude it out of hand.
Bernese national councilor Alec von Graffenried, a member of the Green party, says he believes the Bush administration was “capable of practically anything.”
“That’s why it should be allowed to raise critical questions, without being dismissed as a conspiracy theorist,” he says.
Swiss public relations consultant Klaus J. Stöhlker says in his statement on the website that the “moral neglect” of the United States is obvious, and that he finds the claims made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more believable than those of U.S. leaders.
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