As Jeremy Scahill tweeted, "This is so meta my head is exploding." Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was likely a 9/11 conspiracy buff. About half of the books found at the Abbottabad home where he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in 2011 were on conspiracy theories, BuzzFeed reports — including one on 9/11.
Texts listed on the “bookshelf” include Bloodlines of the Illuminati by the American conspiracy theorist Fritz Springmeier; The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11, by the 9/11 conspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin; materials from Congressional hearings about Project MKUltra, the so-called “mind control” program conducted by the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s; and The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, a book by the Holocaust denier and anti-Semite Eustace Mullins. [BuzzFeed]
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