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The Lone Gunmen and the attacks on the World Trade Center

The terrorist attacks of September 11th on the World Trade Center have attracted a lot of conspiracy theories blaming various other groups than the named Al-Qaeda linked terrorists. I personally, have no opinion on the matter, but I was certainly intrigued when I read recently about a very similar event being dramatised in a US television show called "The Lone Gunmen"

The Lone Gunmen was a short-lived spin-off of the hugely popular X-Files franchise, where three nerdy conspiracy theorists would assist agents Mulder and Scully from time to time.

What is most intriguing is that the plotline for the series pilot concerns an attack on the World Trade Center by attempting to crash an aircraft into it. This aircraft is controlled remotely by a computer cracker, and disaster is averted at the last moment by the show's heroes. It turns out that a shadowy department within the US government is responsible for the plot, which is designed to stimulate public desire for increased weapon spending and overseas wars!

This episode was broadcast on 4 March 2001, six months before the actual 9/11 terrorist attack, but it is remarkable that an episode watched by more than 10 million people in the US alone has been referenced so rarely in the media. Frank Spotnitz, one of the program’s four executive producers said, 'I woke up on September 11 and saw it on TV, and the first thing I thought of was The Lone Gunmen, but then in the weeks and months that followed, almost no one noticed the connection.'

Warning: the 9/11 links below are conspiracy-theory-tastic.

Related links:

http://they-let-it-happen.blogspot.com/2006/12/scenario-12-d-another-x-file.html
http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/LoneGunmen.html
http://killtown.911review.org/lonegunmen.html