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So Ahmadinejad has reportedly said that 9/11 was an intelligence conspiracy that was used as a justification for the US to launch its war on Iraq and invade Afghanistan. As for the second part of that assertion, that 9/11 was used as a justification for the war, I don't think any reasonable or even sane person questions that anymore. Contrary to all of the efforts at the time by the NeoCons and Cheney to link Iraq to 9/11, the fact is Iraq had nothing to do with it.
As for the first assertion, that 9/11 involved a conspiracy, count me in. Now I'm not saying the same thing as some of the nut-jobs out there who theorize that the planes were empty and set on autopilot, or that there were actually no planes involved (I saw the second one hit myself, with my own eyes) nor do I really buy the notion that the building were pre-rigged to explode. However, I can accept the idea that the event could have been stopped, but was not, deliberately in order to create what the NeoCon proposed Project for New American Centiry called "another Pearl Harbor" which the US regime could cite as a justification to carry out some plans it had previous formed.
And if you think I am being naive, I would like to remind you of the case of one Emad Salem, an undercover FBI informant who had infiltrated the group that carried out the first WTC bombing back in 1993. He was smart enough to record his conversations with the FBI. Turns out, he specifically warned the FBI of the bombing, and offered to replace the bomb material with a harmless substance, but the FBI said no. Now tell me that's not fishy. Go on, I dare you.
Then consider all the opportunities that were "missed" and all the "intelligence blunders" in stopping the second bombers. One or two mistakes can be theoretically possible, but a whole chain of them? Like I said before, how many of these mistakes amount to a deliberate pattern of looking the other way?
Anyway, the amusing irony is that in suggesting that there was a conspiracy behind 9/11, Ahmadinejad's views correspond to the that of around half of Americans. And if you still think this is all conspiratorial, may I remind you of Operation Northwoods.
Manufacturing pretexts for war is a long and well-worn part of statecraft, even if it costs a few civilian lives.
Now let me say that the idea that no Jews were killed in the event is nonsense. However, lets remember that there were a few fishy news items involving Israelis too including the infamous "5 dancing Israelis" and the mysterious text message warning sent to an Israeli company called Odigo that was sent just 2hrs before the attack
And if you think I am being naive, I would like to remind you of the case of one Emad Salem, an undercover FBI informant who had infiltrated the group that carried out the first WTC bombing back in 1993. He was smart enough to record his conversations with the FBI. Turns out, he specifically warned the FBI of the bombing, and offered to replace the bomb material with a harmless substance, but the FBI said no. Now tell me that's not fishy. Go on, I dare you.
Then consider all the opportunities that were "missed" and all the "intelligence blunders" in stopping the second bombers. One or two mistakes can be theoretically possible, but a whole chain of them? Like I said before, how many of these mistakes amount to a deliberate pattern of looking the other way?
Anyway, the amusing irony is that in suggesting that there was a conspiracy behind 9/11, Ahmadinejad's views correspond to the that of around half of Americans. And if you still think this is all conspiratorial, may I remind you of Operation Northwoods.
Manufacturing pretexts for war is a long and well-worn part of statecraft, even if it costs a few civilian lives.
Now let me say that the idea that no Jews were killed in the event is nonsense. However, lets remember that there were a few fishy news items involving Israelis too including the infamous "5 dancing Israelis" and the mysterious text message warning sent to an Israeli company called Odigo that was sent just 2hrs before the attack
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