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Ahmadinejad Espouses 9/11 Truther Theory
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the 66th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Making reference to what he called the "mysterious September 11th incident" and the "slave masters and colonial powers" of the West, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad excoriated Western member nations in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Ahmadinejad said after the speech that as an engineer he's sure the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York were not brought down by jetliners.
Ahmadinejad, in an interview with The Associated Press, says it would have been impossible for two jetliners to bring down the towers simply by hitting them. He says some kind of planned explosion must have taken place.
Ahmadinejad stopped short of saying the United States staged the disaster 10 years ago. But he says there are questions the world should resolve, and noted there are doubters in the United States as well.
The Iranian leader's appearance before the U.N. on Thursday was met with protests by groups infuriated with his past comments calling Israel a "tumor" that should be wiped off the map and suggesting that the Holocaust did not occur.
Ahmadinejad attacked the United States for its history of slavery, causing two world wars, using a nuclear bomb against "defenseless people," and imposing and supporting military dictatorships and totalitarian regimes on Asian, African and Latin American nations.
He said that the U.S. used the 9/11 attacks as a pretext for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the wars were in fact motivated by imperialism and a thirst for oil.
"By using their imperialistic media network which is under the influence of colonialism they threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the September 11 event with sanctions and military actions," Ahmadinejad said in his General Assembly speech.
This guy makes more sense than most of our lying POS politicians.
I’m just saying…
Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, says that Jewish extremists are forming new “terrorist” groups that are deliberately targeting Palestinians and Israeli peace activists, intelligence sources were quoted as saying yesterday.
Israeli officials have watched with alarm a sudden spike in attacks by Jewish zealots, particularly West Bank settlers, on Palestinian and Israeli property and personnel following the Israeli army’s demolition of several homes in Migron, an illegal Jewish outpost in the occupied West Bank, 10 days ago.
Tensions are also rising because of Palestinian plans to seek membership of the United Nations in New York next week, a move that right-wing Israelis fear could lead to an eventual evacuation of West Bank settlements, viewed as illegal under international law, to make way for an independent state.
Shin Bet sources told the liberal Ha’aretz newspaper that the Jewish groups were essentially engaged in “terrorist activity” by planning attacks, conducting covert surveillance of Palestinian villages, and gathering data on Israeli activists. The disclosure reveals growing unease among the security forces at their inability to contain increasingly militant settlers, seemingly bent on exacting revenge for every move against them through so-called “price tag” attacks – where Palestinian property is destroyed for every hostile move towards the settlers by the Israeli authorities.
In recent days, settlers are suspected of defacing two Palestinian mosques, uprooting and setting fire to olive trees, torching cars and daubing graffiti on the walls of a Palestinian university in Birzeit. Vandals also broke into an Israeli army base, slashing tyres and spray painting “price tag” on army vehicles, and wrecked the engines of bulldozers used for the demolitions in Migron.
At the home of an Israeli activist who works for Israel’s Peace Now, which monitors the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the assailants’ slogans included “Migron forever” and “Death to traitors”. “They want to silence us, to scare us. It’s not going to happen,” said the activist, who did not want to be named.
In a statement, Peace Now called for “emergency measures against what is becoming the new Jewish underground”.
Ideologically-motivated settlers, who believe they have a divine right to the West Bank, represent some of the most right-wing opinion in Israel. Though a majority of Israelis support a two-state solution, many settlers remain fiercely opposed to either a bi-national state or to Palestinian statehood, doubting that the two peoples could exist peacefully side by side.
“We need to erase the idea of a Palestinian state from people’s minds and convince the world that Islam is a danger,” Michael Ben-Ari, a right-wing politician and settler, told a workshop this week.