Pointing the finger

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Sep 11th 2008
From Economist.com

Worldwide opinion differs on who carried out the September 11th attacks


MEMORIAL services are being held across America today to mark the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives in 2001. Al-Qaeda, an Islamist terrorist group, was responsible for the attacks, though not everyone agrees. In a recent poll of 16,000 people in 17 countries, only in nine did a majority of respondents say al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, its leader, were behind the attacks. Overall some 46% said the group was to blame, with Kenyans and Nigerians most convinced. Alarmingly, 23% of Germans subscribe to the conspiracy theory that the American government plotted the attack. In the Middle East, many point to Israel.