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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by anonymousab on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:32PM (#28494526)
A bit closer is the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen, where a March 2001 episode featured a plot to crash an airliner into the world trade center and blame it on terrorists to justify a new war.

Obviously 9/11 wasn't some government conspiracy to purposely spark new wars, but the other details are eerily similar.

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Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time by strogonoff on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:52AM (#28499145)
A plot one of the stages of which included potentially crashing an airplane into WTC[0], among other targets, was uncovered (mostly, it appears, by accident) and thwarted in the mid-nineties. The Lone Gunmen plot coincidence is less curious considering that plot could have served as an inspiration, although the means of hijacking were very different in the series.

The sad thing is that uncovering that plot didn’t help prevent the actual attack based on it a few years later…

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot#Phase_III:_CIA_pl...

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