Ahmadinejad Hints US Is Behind 9/11--And Runs Afoul Of Al Qaeda

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P. David Hornick writes about an unexpected tiff: Al-Qaeda to Ahmadinejad: It’s Our 9/11!.

Poor Ahmadinejad! He was on perfectly safe ground when he denies the Holocaust--it's not as if Nazis, or their sympathizers for that matter, are going to send nasty messages to him bragging about the Final Solution. But denying Al Qaeda full and unambiguous credit seems to have gotten him in trouble.

C'mon guys, it was just a slip of the tongue!

While he did not discount Al Qaeda's involvement, Ahmadinejad does not mention them by name and does credit someone else as being responsible:Last year, when the need to form a fact-finding team to undertake a thorough investigation concerning the hidden elements involved in [the] September 11 incident was brought up; an idea also endorsed by all independent governments and nations as well as by the majority in the United States, my country and myself came under pressure and threat by the government of the United States.

Instead of assigning a fact-finding team, they killed the main perpetrator and threw his body into the sea.

Would it not have been reasonable to bring to justice and openly bring to trial the main perpetrator of the incident in order to identify the elements behind the safe space provided for the invading aircraft to attack the twin world trade towers?

Ahmadinejad is nothing if not consistent. Last year, Ahadinejad claimed that 9/11 was a "big fabrication":

Perhaps concerned that his repeated suggestions that the Holocaust might not have happened have become less shocking over time, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, upped the ante on Saturday, telling intelligence officials in Tehran that the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was staged.

In remarks reported by IRNA, an official Iranian news agency, and translated by Reuters, Mr. Ahmadinejad said, “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.”

Hornik notes that Al Qaeda responded to Ahmadinejad in Inspire, the English-language Al Qaeda magazine, where they say that Iran:

has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al-Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the US government. So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to [sic] such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?

I guess this means Ahmadinejad will have to come back to the UN next year to clear this all up.

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