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Ahmadinejad doubts 9/11 events
Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the accepted version of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as a suspect event.Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York, Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a public rally in the holy city of Qom broadcast live on state television. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed, whose names were never published. Under this pretext they (the United States) attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then a million people have been killed, he said. This was the third time in just over a week that Ahmadinejad has publicly raised doubts about the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, allegedly carried out by Al Qaeda militants, which killed nearly 3,000 people. He first raised the theme at a ceremony on April 8, Irans national day marking its controversial nuclear programme, which the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons. A day later, he voiced his doubts at an address in the northeastern city of Mashhad. The speech in Qom, which was the first time he had described the September 11 attacks as suspect, took place at the shrine of Massoumeh. Ahmadinejad did not say who he believed was behind the September 11 attacks. On April 8, he questioned how the two planes supposedly piloted by Al Qaeda militants could have evaded surveillance to crash into the World Trade Centre. At the time, the government of Irans then reformist president Mohammad Khatami condemned the attacks. However, newspapers have occasionally described the attacks as a conspiracy that was devised by the White House to justify its eventual attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. World order: Ahmadinejad also reaffirmed Wednesday his determination to change the international order. We have two missions, Ahmadinejad proclaimed. To construct Iran and change the global situation. It is impossible to reach the summits of progress without changing the corrupt and unjust order of the world. In an echo of Ahmadinejads comments, a top Iranian army commander warned on Tuesday that Iran would eliminate Israel from the global arena if it were attacked by the Jewish state. Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution and remain at loggerheads over the Islamic republics nuclear programme. Posted by: Fred 2008-04-17 |
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