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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | January 28, 2002 issue

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The Internet boils with accusations that U.S. fighter planes were ordered to stand down on September 11, 2001, although there was a possibility these planes could have intercepted and downed the suicide planes. Then there's the role of oil. Innumerable columns begin with the news that the war in Afghanistan is "all about oil." Advanced conspiracy theory suggests that the attacks on the trade center were actually designed to silence Federal Bureau of Investigation agent John O'Neill, who had quit the bureau on the grounds that his pursuit of the Taliban and bin Laden had been obstructed by the oil lobby, now controlling the White House through its designated operatives in the form of Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

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TERRORISM -- United States; SUICIDE bombings; FIGHTER planes; AFGHAN War, 2001-; CONSPIRACY theories; UNITED States
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