[UniversalAutocrat]

I don't normally pander to conspiracy theories, but I'm not presenting a conspiracy theory.

Right now, I'm just presenting facts.

The Lone Gunmen pilot episode was made in 2000 and broadcast six months before 9/11 in March 2001.

Here is a description of the episode:

The pilot episode depicted a plane being flown into the New York World Trade Center; it originally aired six months before 9/11. Foreshadowing a number of conspiracy theories which would arise in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the plot of the March 4, 2001 episode depicts a secret faction within the US government plotting to hijack a Boeing 727 and fly it into the World Trade Center by remote control. The stated motive was to increase the military defense budget by blaming the attack on foreign interests. In the episode, the plot is foiled by the protagonists, who board the doomed plane and deactivate the malicious autopilot system just seconds before the plane would have reached the World Trade Center.

While The Lone Gunmen are thwarted in their attempt to steal a computer chip by Yves Adele Harlow, John Fitzgerald Byers receives news of his father's death and the trio soon find themselves unravelling a government conspiracy in which an attempt to fly a commercial aircraft into the Twin Towers which would result in increased arms sales for the United States.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lon..._11th_parallel

One of the producers questioned how if they could imagine such a scenario, then why did the government not and not be prepared for such a tragedy (even though the government seemed to have already conceived it by all of those NORAD exercises).

What do you think? Just a random coincidence...?

[justanotherposter]

I doubt the government would expect it to actually happen, if someone said that could happen in real life before the event would anyone have believed you? It's possible the people responsible watched the episode and got inspired though.

[Rhadamanthus]

In response to the thread title: coincidence.

[Snagprophet]

Well there's already been a film almost ten years before 9/11 about terrorists trying to blow the twin towers up. There's been attacks on it in the past. To call that a coincidence is like calling the fact that the Colorado gunman was dressed as a Batman villain and attacked a Batman showing a coincidence.

[james22]

It may well be that the terrorists got their idea for the target from the film. Unlikely but possible.

[prog2djent]

There have been attempted attacks before, films about it, New York (aside from London) is THEE International city of the world, its the first thing you notice about NY when looking at pre 2001 films, photo's.

Also, who says that terrorists can't use our media and entertainment for inspiration, they are already using remote control cars filled with expolosives in Syria, everyone knows where that comes from.