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There's no doubt that there is something rather strange about what happened on 11th September 2001. If you don't believe me, have a look on youtube or google '9/11 conspiracy theory' and you'll see the extraordinary number of posts dealing with this very issue.

The fact is that a significantly large group of people in the US - and the rest of the world - simply don't buy what Bush's administration is telling us. The New York Times' poll a couple of years ago, for instance, revealed that 53% of Americans doubt their government's version of events on that fateful day.

And in another survey, a third of the Americans questioned thought that their government officials either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or allowed them to happen.

And there maybe some justification for this conspiratorial perspective.

When I was a student - in another century - we used to write essays that naturally became longer and longer as we moved up the academic ladder. It was awful.

Before you started the essay you'd have to make a number of journeys to the library, where you'd flicked through innumerable books and copious lecture notes.

And you can just imagine how cumbersome the job of writing 3000 words was especially as the most technical thing we had was Tipp-ex! With pen and paper - it really was a tedious, laborious task.

But not today.