9/11: The Big Lie [Paperback]

Thierry Meyssan (Author)

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Publication Date: January 10, 2003

Although widely criticized when it first appeared in March of this year, Thierry Meyssan’s 11 Septembre: L’Effroyable Imposture, nevertheless went on France’s bestseller list in its second week and became the highest-grossing book in a single week in Europe ever. As Alan Riding noted in the European edition of The New York Times, it is a book that has taken on a life of its own. Now, American readers have their own opportunity to evaluate the merit of the author’s arguments. Just published by USA Books are the English-language editions of the original title and a companion volume, Pentagate. As a former student of theology as well as of political science, M. Meyssan brings to his work a sincere desire to provide an explanation of the tragedy in the context of his left-of-center philosophy. His books are focused primarily on what he believes are serious inconsistencies between observations of the damage to the Pentagon and the official explanation of what happened there. In September 11: The Big Lie, he also discusses similar discrepancies surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center towers. The evidence that supports the author’s arguments includes eyewitness accounts and commentary by a military authority on explosives. However, most of the narrative consists of the author’s own analyses of the reports by politicians and journalists as well as of film footage of the sites. Photos are included. According to the author, interest in these books in the U.S. is already very strong.Speaking as head of a think tank called the Voltaire Network, he notes, Two-thirds of the hits on our Web site come from the United States. For students of history and political science, as well as all concerned citizens, these are important books to be aware of. While some may be offended by the author’s conclusions, his beliefs clearly hold an appeal for many outside the United States.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Carnot Pr (January 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592090265
• ISBN-13: 978-1592090266
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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347 of 492 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the US is angry with the wrong people., September 9, 2002

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Juan Carlos Uribe (Bogota, Colombia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 9/11: The Big Lie (Paperback)

The book indeed shocks you for many reasons. The author does not claim that the victims of the American Airlines Flight 77 who took off from Dulles Airport are false, or that we shall not join the grief and anger that the events of 9/11 brought to US citizens.

What the author argues is that departing from the physical evidence gathered at the Pentagon as well as from the graphic documentation of the crash, indeed a huge explosion occurred at the Pentagon. The problem is, that such evidence proves beyond reasonable doubt that such damage could no be caused by a Boeing 757 travelling at a speed of no less that 250 mph.

Indeed, looking at the reasoning of Mr. Meyssan and the evidence he places before you the reader feels at loss to explain how the crash of the Pentagon would be the only case in the history of aviation when after the collision not a single piece of the plane is recovered because all the plane is melted in an explosion, which oddly enough does not affect the green grass on the field right in front of the building. Or how a plane of that size and with such a wide wing span makes a crack on the building which is al least 50% smaller that the size of the plane. In other words how is it possible that the wings and the motors did not touch the building? Or how a plane of that size and characteristics gets into the most heavily guarded air space of the USA and no single civil or military radar cares to wonder what is it doing there.

Mr Meyssan feels that such lack of coherence of the official version with the stark reality of the facts only proves that the US government is knowingly lying to its citizens in order to hide that what really happen on 9/11, including the destruction of the twin towers was a coup d' etat by the industrial military sectors of the US, covered up as a Muslim conspiracy against the US, in order to gain sufficient support from its citizens to attack Afghanistan and Irak and make a [heck] of a profit with the blood of honest, kind, patriotic but misguided Americans, while simultaneously gaining absolute control of the petroleum of the region.

If he is right or not I do not know, but indeed the absence of a single piece plane debris, together with the photos that the damage suffered by the Pentagon do not have the scale that should occurred if a real Boeing 757 had fallen against it makes you uneasy about how right Mr. Thierry might be.

133 of 193 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Intresting Read, October 13, 2003

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This review is from: 9/11 - the big lie (Paperback)

The events of 9/11 were devestating, this book doesn't try to refute those facts. This book does, however, bring forth several ideas backed with enough logical evidence that makes a person think twice about what was really going on that day and how the government used the event as leverage to forge war. A few of the ideas mentioned in this book are; the 767 hitting the pentagon, yet no piece of the plane was ever recovered (the first time in history there's been no recovery of ANY piece of a plane after crashing on american soil), the mysterious stock-dumping of the airline companies affected on 9/11, and a very intresting piece on the heroin trade in afghanistan as being the main reason to forge war. As an American, I'd stand behind this book 100% with what's presented, it's obvious there's more going on than meets the eye.

114 of 171 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REVEALED: The Big Lie, September 8, 2002

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Christopher Bollyn (AmericanFreePress.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 9/11: The Big Lie (Paperback)

While Meyssan's thesis that the events of September 11 were perpetrated by elements of the U.S. military-industrial complex is painful to ponder, the documents and evidence he presents simply cannot be ignored by anyone interested in understanding the truth behind the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Based on news reports and documents published by the White House and the Dept. of Defense, Meyssan connects the dots and asks the questions few Americans are willing to ask out loud. Having investigated the attacks for the past year for American Free Press, I am compelled to agree with Meyssan when he says, "far from conducting a criminal investigation, the FBI has applied itself to making clues disappear and silencing testimony."

Americans will be shocked to read the appendix about shooting down drone aircraft (in 1962!) in the Operation Northwoods memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in which similar domestic terror operations were planned to provide an excuse to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.

As Meyssan shows, the official version of 9/11 has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese. Like the anthrax that was found in the U.S. Post, "the menace is internal." This book will make waves in Washington if they let it in the country.