>I haven't been following this thread at all, but Doug is exactly right
>-- in general over the last couple of centuries there has tended to be
>strong racist elements lurking in almost all conspiracism.
Before he became a reality TV star, George Galloway told me that these sorts of conspiracy theories are popular in the Middle East because many Arabs have internalized the western view of them as incapable of mastering a technologically or organizationally complex assignment like the 9/11 hijackings - or, apparently, the mosque bombing. It's of a piece with the weird Anglophilia he encountered in Iraq - even in Saddam's bunker deep underground, where the Evil Man personally served Galloway some English chocolates.
Doug