June 22, 2002 - The NYT, Front Page Conspiracy Theory Grips French: Sept. 11 as Right-Wing U.S. Plot [OR: When France went nuts] By ALAN RIDING The new, best-seller French author. PARIS, June 21 - Even before the fires were extinguished at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, conspiracy theories began flooding the Internet. A few quickly spilled out of Web sites and were widely circulated by e-mail before fading into oblivion. One, however, has taken on a life of its own in France. It was turned into a book that has become the publishing sensation of the spring....
