Ahmadinejad's Mastery Of History Extends From Holocaust To 9/11

Ahmadinejad gone from being a Holocaust denier to being a 9/11 truther:

Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the hard-line populist Ahmadinejad also repeated his denial of the Holocaust, on which the consensus of historians is that six million Jews were exterminated by Nazi Germany.

Ahmadinejad said the Sept. 11 attacks with hijacked airliners on New York and Washington D.C. had been trumped up as an excuse for the United States to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.


Speaking at a Tehran conference, Ahmadinejad said there was no evidence that the death toll at New York's World Trade Center, destroyed in the attacks, was as high as reported and said "Zionists" had been tipped off in advance.

"What was the story of Sept. 11? During five to six days, and with the aid of the media, they created and prepared public opinion so that everyone considered an attack on Afghanistan and Iraq as (their) right," he said in a televised speech.

No "Zionists" were killed in the World Trade Center, according to Ahmadinejad, because "one day earlier they were told not go to their workplace.”

"They announced that 3,000 people were killed in this incident, but there were no reports that reveal their names. Maybe you saw that, but I did not," he told a gathering of the Iranian news media.

As the article points out, there actual is a list--several of them actually--online. For example, WBZ in Boston has a list of both those who died aboard the planes as well as those who died on the ground, with names and ages along with occupations of the crew, passengers and those who died in the Pentagon. Here is a site which has the names of those killed, along with their ages and their home cities.

But then again, we are talking about Ahmadinejad, and no one seriously expects what comes out of his mouth to be truthful, let alone accurate. After all, even his "re-election" was a sham. And Iranians are already on to him.

Ahmadinejad's comments are apparently in response to Obama, who said that current sanctions could be rescinded if it were possible to establish "a clear set of steps that we would consider sufficient to show that they are not pursuing nuclear weapons.”

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