Ahmadinejad: 9/11 Attacks a "Big Lie"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference during his visit to the port city of Ashdod, near the border with the Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 11, 2012. Israeli airstrikes killed a schoolboy and two other Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, while Gaza rocket squads fired salvos into southern Israel, deepening the worst round of violence between the sides in more than a year (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) / AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov
Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.
Ahmadinejad's comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. They show that Iran has no intention of toning itself down even with tighter sanctions looming because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
"September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."
The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a "big lie."
In 2007, New York officials rejected Ahmadinejad's request to visit the World Trade Center site while he was in the city for a U.N. meeting. The president also sparked an uproar when he said during a lecture in New York that the causes and conditions that led to the attacks, as well as who orchestrated them, still need to be examined.
At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were "a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S," and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.
He has also questioned the Sept. 11 death toll of around 3,000, claiming the Americans never published the victims' names.
On the 2007 anniversary of the attacks, the names of 2,750 victims killed in New York were read aloud at a memorial ceremony.
© 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Ahmadinejad's comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. They show that Iran has no intention of toning itself down even with tighter sanctions looming because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
"September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."
The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a "big lie."
In 2007, New York officials rejected Ahmadinejad's request to visit the World Trade Center site while he was in the city for a U.N. meeting. The president also sparked an uproar when he said during a lecture in New York that the causes and conditions that led to the attacks, as well as who orchestrated them, still need to be examined.
At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were "a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S," and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.
He has also questioned the Sept. 11 death toll of around 3,000, claiming the Americans never published the victims' names.
On the 2007 anniversary of the attacks, the names of 2,750 victims killed in New York were read aloud at a memorial ceremony.
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Now who says the truth?
.....What was done to them to make them so mad to carry out such an ostracity? What did we do to them? It is narcissistic to think it was jealousy or an envious obsession with our culture/way of life. The way of life they wish to keep is their own.
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Ummm, don't you read?
There are so many insightful books written by well regarded journalists, historians and politicians such as Robert Frisk, Karen Armstrong, N. Chomsky, one of my favorites: Ahmed Rashid, Steve Coll, and Fareed Zadaria.
It is not a simple answer as "yes, they hate us 'cause they are jealous". Only a conservative moron would say that. How about looking into: the US support of Israel, the Palistinian refugees in neighboring countries, Gaza, how quickly the Americans left Afghanstan when the Soviets were defeated, the CIA plots and supported coups in many Middle Eastern countries like Egypt and Iraq, look into how US played India and Pakistan. How America had supported the ruling family in Saudi and allowed the family to defeat any democractic reforms.
As for Amadinejad....I am sure someone will wipe him from the face of the earth, sort of like the plan he clearly states should happen to Israel..."Wiped from the map." Pity so many civilians and soldiers have to commit to battle with a leader that says there are no Homosexuals in Iran...no holocaust in WWII...NO 9/11 in the US....and by George....was popularly elected, complete with secret police and beatings for anyone who disagrees with him...Thanks, Ronnie, for taking care of future generations of Americans with your double talk Republican business plans for doing zero about Iran. We should name an alley in DC after you....RONNIE REAGAN BOULEVARD...and put your face on the 50 cent dollar bill celebrating the Trickle Down Economics of your administration.
We know the fix was in on Florida yet everyone in power turns a blind eye.
We know how in the following election Ohio was probably compromised as well.
We all know Pelosi took "impeachment off the table"...
We should all be marching on Washington for the return of our rights and legislation that protects the country from economic catastophes as the exodus of manufacturing and technology.
Look at the numbers, 10 years ago, 18 million workers in the middle class....Today, 10 million...only until the obama administrations grand effort has stimulated a response that might balance the system, but for the jobs already lost...gone for our lifetime....Many trades will vanish from existance in America forever unless immediate restrictions are placed on the kinds of trade we as a nation should mandate for our protection since it is not guarenteed under the present system which has economically depressed the future.
It's been 8 years since WTC, has anypart been rebuilt?
It's been 21 years since the Loma Preita earthquake, necessitating a new eastern structure of the Bay Bridge...they say its on schedule...roflmao
How is New Orleans going?
The fix was in on FL. The networks announced FL for Gore one hour prior to polls closing in parts of western FL in the panhandle in a blatant attempt to keep Bush supporters in that part of FL from exercising their constitutional right to cast their vote.
You do believe in the right of everyone person to cast thier own vote correct? If from Chicago or Gary IN, that would include anyone who died in the past 100 years.
I happen to believe the former criminal president of the US had some involvement in the demise of the WTC.
Laws of Science cannot be broken.
There is no way the fuel on the 2 airliners could have brought down the WTC.
Open burn of 10,000 gallons of jet fuel would have spent itself in 5 minutes at about 500 degrees Fahrenheit.
Resistance of the structures was zero when they fell, in other words they fell at the speed of gravity which is impossible without internal explosives being set off at predetermined locations, just like the demolitions featured on TV.
Audio tape exists of the owner himself on radio about "pulling buildings"
which is a well known term for destroying them.
I didn't make this up you know...
Kool-Aid sales are on the upswing.
Read Michael C. Ruppert's book- Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, a book located on the shelf at the Harvard School of Business Library, and then you'll be armed with the propper knowledge of the events leading up to 9/11, the attacks themselves, and the actions afterwards. I challenge you, hateisafourletterword, to read this.
http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
President Ahmadinejad is one of many that rightly see the story that is told on mainstream American infotainment outlets as a LIE.
You can not make 110 acres of 10cm thick concrete turn to dust in 10 seconds without preplanned explosives! Fortunately for the real perpetrators of the 9-11 demolitions the American people would rather watch TV than learn math and science.
You can not make 110 acres of 10cm thick concrete turn to dust in 10 seconds without preplanned explosives! FACT!
You can not make 110 acres of 10cm thick concrete turn to dust in 10 seconds without preplanned explosives!
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Really? Explain. I had no idea the Towers collapsed in 10 seconds. Ummmm I truely thought it was much longer than 10 seconds.....
Read the bible of 9/11: http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
If you can't, won't, or refuse to see how dubious 9/11 is, you're a lost cause.
Yes...those planes and passengers were just a mirage...they're currently in hiding with Elvis and Amelia in Las Vegas...living off the taxpayers dollars as ficticious highrollers to 'cover up' the gov't
Isn't it ironic that if you ask those who support the government's preposterous conspiracy theory of 19 hijackers (that weren't even there), they resort to personal attacks instead of reason, science and math?
GOT REASON?
Ask questions, demand democracy!