A book titled The Frightening Fraud, which shot to the top of French bestseller lists despite strong denunciations from members of the press, claims that the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11 never existed, and that the American military establishment was the perpetrator of the New York and Washington attacks. The author, Thierry Meyssan, is president of the Voltaire Network, a formerly respectable left-leaning think tank.

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