Only the first paragraph is available if you're not registered. I think that's why that was all that was cut and pasted. I do hate to think of Hunter Thompson believing that planted explosives brought down the towers so I hope that isn't what he was investigating. Other than this article is there anything to suggest that he believed this?
Joe W:-
John, other than this article, (the main body of which does not discuss Hunter T's views on 9-11) there is nothing else I have seen that specifically references Hunter T's belief that there were explosives planted in the building. However, there are several interviews he gave in which he is clearly skeptical of the view that "a bunch of Arabs jumped up from some kind of a campfire and fucking mountains over there and snuck into this country and hijacked those planes and did that by themselves". http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=287
In another interview Thompson (in which he can be heard in his own voice at the url below) opined:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/09/144645.php
Hunter S. Thompson: All right. Well I saw that the US government was going to benefit, and the White House people, the republican administration to take the mind of the public off of the crashing economy. Now you want to keep in mind that every time a person named Bush gets into office, the nation goes into a drastic recession they call it.
Mick O’Regan: It seems a very long bow to me, but are you sort of suggesting that this worked in the favour of the Bush Administration?
Hunter S. Thompson: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And I have spent enough time on the inside of, well in the White House and you know, campaigns and I’ve known enough people who do these things, think this way, to know that the public version of the news or whatever event, is never really what happened. _______________
Finally, I think the following passage from the article (full text at the url below) may provide some insight into the framework within which Thompson may have viewed 9-11 and other similar crises:
http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/GlobeandMail.htm
That tension between restless idealism and impending doom characterized the postwar generation in America, living in the shadow of nuclear apocalypse and the ignominy of the Vietnam War and Watergate, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.. It was during this era that the American Dream of a true republic came unravelled and it was briefly possible to see through its glittering façade to where the corporate éminences grises pressed buttons and pulled strings. The sight profoundly disturbed both those who saw it and those caught, as it were, in the act. The latter vowed such a thing would never occur again. The former, mostly, tried to forget what they had seen. Hunter Stockton Thompson never forgot what he had seen. It informed everything, and his addiction to honesty in the telling of it is what will grant his work timeless relevance. That we even know of his other addictions is merely an example of that honesty.