Ahmadinejad and 9/11 conspiracy

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

Comments

[Taz]

Korosh,

I would like to know what evidence that you have that you don't buy the theory that the building was prerigged with explosives? If you are interested in a discussion, so am I.

[Ray]

Dear Cyrus,
Firs and foremost I’d like to say that taking lives is an act which is evil, despicable and simply wrong end of. No one has the right to take the life of another human being in order to financially or otherwise benefit from it.
I, including most of the world population blatantly recognise that 9/11 had no connection with the subsequent war with Iraq. You are absolutely correct in saying that it could have been stopped in much the same way that the conflict involving middle-east can be stopped right now, right today. The solution is simple, give the Palestinian their land back and that would be the end of all conflicts.
I once red in one of your editorial when you described Israel as the waging tail of the dog, reference made to the US. Cyrus, I can not tell you how accurate that analogy is.
Isn’t it a travesty how so many lives have been taken across the world, simply because a nation believes in the promise land, which incidentally was given to them by the British and not God?
As far as the Iraq conflict goes, yes, there was no link, but boy didn’t some people benefit from it, I am talking about likes of Dick Cheney and his pals at Exxon.
Wasn’t it sickening to watch Donald Rumsfeld to play such a role in that conflict, whilst the footage of him shaking hands with Saddam in the war against Iran was and is still in the public domain. Talking about Rumsfeld, I just have to at this point mention his famous quote which is a true representation of his intelligence.
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.” I am still struggling with this one.
As for Bush, well he was just after hurting Saddam because and as he blatantly confessed in one of his interviews that ” the man tried to kill my daddy” reference being made to the first Iraq conflict.
I watched ALEXANDER THE GREAT last night which for me it underlined man’s desire for conquest. Alexander had one concept set in his mind which was concurring the world. Doesn’t this bear a resemblance to the ideology expressed by the NeoCons!
Cyrus, we are where we are and nothing can change the history but surely we can learn from it, actually can is not a right word, must, we must learn from the history. I know that so much of media’s intention is to portray Iran as a dangerous state who desires to make a nuclear bomb and destroy the world, but the people of the world must recap the history and recognise where exactly the truth lies. So many times has Iran declared their peaceful intention with their nuclear program and encouraged the governing agencies to work with them, obviously on the basis of truth and not deception. So many times have Mr Ahmadinejad and the supreme leader A Khamenie have stated that Iran and Iranians bear no quarrel with any regime which will treat them with respect and recognise their severing rights as a nation.
People of the world must recap the history so as to prevent further bloodshed, just so that a selective few can make financial benefits out of it.
As a final word to those who do capitalise on other peoples’ lives, I must remind them that we all live a finite life, even the empires of Rome couldn’t take their wealth with them once they died. If you do believe in life after death, surely it makes more sense to think that your help to mankind in this life pays more dividends in the next life, so do good, respect others and help people.