9/11 THEORY QUESTIONED

Almost one in five Swedes aged under 30 think that George W Bush’s US government lay behind the attacks on September 11th 2001, according to a new survey by Novus Opinion. The Novus poll indicates that a significant number of young Swedes are persuaded by the logic of the argument. Of the 1,000 Swedes surveyed in an internet panel, 70 per cent responded that al-Qaida were behind the attacks, while 7 per cent did not think so. Among those under-30 only 58 per cent believed responsibility lay with al-Qaida, while 15 per cent did not. Among the under-30s 51 per cent rejected the conspiracy theory while 18 per cent believed that the US government, led at the time by President George W Bush, had a role in the attacks.  31 per cent of the young people interviewed in the survey responded that they did not know what to believe.