German TV Show Depicts 9/11 As Bush Plot.

[reprehensor]

German TV Show Depicts 9/11 As Bush Plot

By Tom Goeller
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

June 09, 2005

A fictional crime drama based on the premise that the Bush administration ordered the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington aired this week on German state television, prompting the Green Party chairman to call for an investigation.

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Sunday night's episode of "Tatort," a popular murder mystery that has been running on state-run ARD-German television for 35 years, revolved around a German woman and a man who was killed in her apartment.

According to the plot, which was seen by approximately 7 million Germans, the dead man had been trained to be one of the September 11 pilots but was left behind, only to be tracked down and killed by CIA or FBI assassins.

The woman, who says in the program that the September 11 attacks were instigated by the Bush family for oil and power, then is targeted, presumably to silence her. The drama concludes with the German detectives accepting the truth of her story as she eludes the U.S. government hit men and escapes to safety in an unnamed Arab country.

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[spooked911]

1. Damn conspiracy theorists! They cause nothing but trouble!

Actually, that is a really interesting article from several perspectives.

[JackRiddler]

2. damn!

Wish I was still in Germany!

This is a very useful route.

Note the stupid coverage by the Times - blah blah about Germans being stupid CTs, as though AMERICANS don't think the same, in the same fucking proportions! And the lame statement by the U.S. embassy. And the German left moving up to play gatekeepers (this Bütikofer is a real asshole, by the way). Perfect.

[reprehensor]

5. Note: it is the W. Times... or... Moonie Times after all.

Sometimes you have to know how to read the article.

Sometimes you just have to go ahead and use the paper for bird-cage liner.

UPI is also owned by the Times' controlling interest, but nonetheless; useful stories do crop up there occasionally.

[Dirk39]

7. Bütikofer is a real asshole

I love you!
Komm zurück nach Deutschland und wir geben ihm Saures!
BTW: Noone in Germany would consider the Greens to be "left" in any way.
They have become rightwing-neoliberals for long. There is still a small minority of leftists and ecologists within the greens, but esp. the people in higher positions have nothing to do with any "left" anymore. They have become the second "FDP".
The funniest and most absurd assertion in the Washington Times article is: "Many Germans think, for example, that the 1969 moon landing was faked". I have never met a german in my live, who believes nonsense like this, but I've met many Americans, who do.


Dirk

[philb]

3. Who does the Green chairman want to investigate?

just retired German Defense Minister von Beulow (sp?) has a book suggesting that 9/11 was a U.S. intelligence operation I understand. I hear its a best seller in Germany.

[Kellanved]

6. nah

Bülow is a nutcase. Neither is his book bestselling, nor was he ever minister of defense.

As to the thriller: Hello? It is fiction. The whole plot of the episode was "some people who are paranoid have real enemies".


Finally: Bütikhofer got not a single line in the German media; there is no source other than the Moonie Times writing that he ever said a single word about the issue.

[Dancing_Dave]

4. The latest Star Wars movie had a very 9/11-like conspiracy in it too.

It's growing undercurrent in our culture. Consciousness raising can take a lot of creativity in a case like this! :yourock: