problems, maybe that is a reason for their refusal to believe. I know when I visited Italy recently, many people where happy we were at war. & had the same anti-muslim immigration stance. i also witnessed this first hand in the UK & Denmark in 2001, before 9.11

I personally think that is why many Countries either assisted in 9.11 or were willing co-conspirators.

'...makes one wonder whether that country played some role in the events.'

Personally, I'm not inclined to read that much into incidents like this. Remember the flak caught by that Japanese schoolteacher for teaching alternative views of 9/11? Does that mean the Japanese were involved in 9/11?

Yes, it could partly be the anti-Muslim sentiment that has already been noted; but I think it could also just be the result of a kind of anxiety not to have one's country get too much of an 'anti-American' reputation, lest it quickly find itself ostracized in international affairs. Remember the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when Chirac (I think it was he anyway) said, 'We are all Americans now'? And then Bush warned the UN members, 'not to tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories' about 9/11? Just as at home, so abroad it apparently hasn't been so easy to shift from one understanding of those events to another one that is so totally divergent from it.

But, if you're interested, I do recall once coming across an article--actually written back in 2003, by one Chaim Kupferberg for Global Research--which does take the view that participants in the 9/11 plot did include continental European intelligence services (in fact, he thought these may have been even more involved than Israeli, or Saudi, or Pakistani intelligence).

You can find that article here:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html

It's a pretty involved piece as I remember, but interesting. Yes, it's worth considering I suppose. Moussaoui was known to French intelligence; then you have the German and Swiss connections to Atta and the Venice flying circus.