Original Message > Subject: Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the > Internet > From: "Mosal" > Date: Thu, October 7, 2004 11:21 pm > To: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Assalamu'alaikum wr. wb. > > Ada artikel di Washington Post tentang video: "9/11: > Pentagon Strike," > tentang conpiracy theory bahwa Pentagon bukan > ditabrak American > Airlines Flight 77 tetapi oleh missile atau pesawat > kecil. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13059-2004Oct6.html > > Artikelnya saya kutipkan dibawah ini. > > Bagi yang berminat melihat videonya, bisa melihat > dibawah ini: > http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php > > Wassalamu'alaikum wr. wb. > Mosal. > > ----------------o0o---------------- > It may happen that you hate a thing which is good > for you, > and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad > for you. > (Al-Qur'an 2:216) > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13059-2004Oct6.html > > Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the Internet > > By Carol Morello > Washington Post Staff Writer > Thursday, October 7, 2004; Page B01 > > > Working from his home office in a small town in > England, Darren > Williams spent four weeks this summer making a short > but startling video > that raises novel questions about the 2001 attack on > the > Pentagon. > > The video, "9/11: Pentagon Strike," suggests that it > was not American > Airlines Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon, > but a missile or a > small plane. > > With rock music as a backdrop, the video offers > flashes of photographs > taken shortly after impact, interspersed with > witness accounts. The > pictures seem incompatible with damage caused by a > jumbo jet, and no one > mentions seeing one. Red arrows point to unbroken > windows in the burning > building. Firefighters stand outside a perfectly > round hole in a Pentagon > wall where the Boeing 757 punched through; it is > less than 20 feet in > diameter. > > Propelled by word of mouth, Internet search engines > and e-mail, the video > has been downloaded by millions of people around the > world. > > American history is rife with conspiracy theories. > Extremists have fed > rumors of secret plots by Masons, bankers, Catholics > and Communists. But > now urban legends have become cyberlegends, and > suspicions speed their way > globally not over months and weeks but within days > and hours on the Web. > > "The dissemination is almost immediate," said Doug > Thomas, a > University of Southern California communications > professor who teaches > classes on technology and subgroups. "It's not just > one Web site > saying, 'Hey, look at this.' It's 10,000 people > sending e-mails to 10 > friends, and then they send it on." > > The Pentagon video could be a case study. Williams > created a Web site for > the video, www.pentagonstrike.co.uk. Then he > e-mailed a copy to Laura > Knight-Jadczyk, an American author living in France > whose books include > one on alien abduction. Williams, 31, a systems > analyst, > belongs to an online group hosted by Knight-Jadczyk > that blends > discussions of science, politics and the paranormal. > > On Aug. 23, Knight-Jadczyk posted a link to the > video on the group's Web > site, www.Cassiopaea.org. Within 36 hours, > Williams's site > collapsed under the crush of tens of thousands of > visitors. But there were > others to fill the void. > > In Texas, a former casino worker who downloaded the > video began > drawing almost 700,000 visitors a day to his > libertarian site. In > Louisiana, a young Navy specialist put the video on > his personal Web page, > usually visited by a few friends and relatives; > suddenly, the site was > inundated by more than 20,000 hits. In Alberta, > traffic to a cabdriver's > site shot up more than sixfold after he supplied a > link to the video. > > Across thousands of sites, demand for the video was > so great that some > webmasters solicited donations to pay for the extra > bandwidth. > > "Pentagon Strike" is just the latest and flashiest > example of a > growing number of Web sites, books and videos > contending that > something other than a commercial airliner hit the > Pentagon. > > Most make their case through the selective use of > photographs and > eyewitness accounts reported during the confusion of > the first hours after > the attack. They say they don't know what really > happened to American > Airlines Flight 77 and don't offer other > explanations. The doubters say > they are just asking questions that have not been > answered satisfactorily. > > The ready and growing audience for conspiracy > theories about the Sept. 11, > 2001, attacks has been particularly galling to those > who worked on the > National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the > United States, the > bipartisan panel known as the 9/11 commission. > > "We discussed the theories," said Philip D. Zelikow, > the commission's > executive director. "When we wrote the report, we > were also careful not to > answer all the theories. It's like playing > Whack-A-Mole. You're never > going to whack them all. They satisfy a deep need in > the people who create > them. What we tried to do instead was to > affirmatively tell what was true > and tell it adding a lot of critical details that we > knew would help > dispel concerns." > > Conspiracy theories are common after traumatic > events. Michael Barkun, a > political scientist at Syracuse University who has > written books on the > culture of conspiracies, said contradictory and > inconclusive > eyewitness accounts often leave room for different > interpretations of events. > > "Conspiracy theories are one way to make sense of > what happened and regain > a sense of control," Barkun said. "Of course, > they're usually wrong, but > they're psychologically reassuring. Because what > they say is that > everything is connected, nothing happens by > accident, and that there is > some kind of order in the world, even if it's > produced by evil forces. I > think psychologically, it's in a way consoling to a > lot === message truncated ===
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