Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Sept 11 "big fabrication"

[darrels joy]

Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Sept 11 "big fabrication"

TEHRAN
Sat Mar 6, 2010 9:47am EST















EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends the International Conference on National and Islamic Unification of Palestine Future, in
Tehran February 28, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl





TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a "big fabrication" that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel.

It came amid escalating tension in the long-running dispute between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear program, with the United States pushing for new U.N. sanctions against the major oil producer.

Ahmadinejad described the destruction of the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001 as a "complicated intelligence scenario and act," IRNA reported.

He added: "The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afghanistan." He did not elaborate.

Nearly 3,000 people died in the hijacked airliner attacks on New York and Washington, which were carried out by al Qaeda operatives.

In January, Ahmadinejad termed the September 11 attacks "suspicious" and accused the West of seeking to dominate the Middle East.

Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, was re-elected in a disputed presidential vote last June that stirred the largest display of internal unrest in the country since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

(Reporting by Ramin Mostafavi and Hashem Kalantari; writing by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Noah Barkin)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUST...ternational%29

[82Rigger]

This is the same individual that stated on numerous occasions that the Holocaust is a "fabrication".

The people of Iran need to remove this person from power.

[1CAVCCO15MED]

This guy is a true believer. He is not going to be "talked" out of building nuclear weapons. He KNOWS Allah will stay the hands of the infidel and will allow him to destroy Israel. He sees the negotiations as proof of Allah's help in staying the hands of these "barbarians". Unless he is forcibly stopped there will be a nuclear attack against Israel. It is beyond the imagination of any American politician to understand this kind of belief because for all of them, beliefs are negotiable talking points for sale and a means of deceiving gullible voters.

[82Rigger]

I do not believe there will be a nuclear attack against Israel from Iran.

I believe that Israel's intelligence regarding Iran's nuclear facilities is better than anyone else's including ours.

If Iran's nuclear capability becomes an imminent threat, it will be removed by Israel.

And it won't matter what the EU or the UN or anybody else thinks about it.

Israel has done this before, and she'll do it again.

[1CAVCCO15MED]

I honestly believe they or we will have to.

[82Rigger]

Iran has had more than fair warning.

I firmly believe that if and when necessary, IDF will reduce any nuclear threat from Iran just as she did in 2007 in Syria at Deir ez-Zor.

And there will be apologies to no one.