Osama bin Laden was a 9/11 conspiracy buff

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last updated 11 September 2015

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]