Ahamadinejad Says September 11 Attacks Story A Big Lie, Was Intelligence Act

Ahmadinejad: Sept.11 attacks "big lie"

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhuanet) --

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday said the U.S. government's official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" upon which the invasion of Afghanistan and the so-called war on terror were based.

The AP reported that Ahmadinejad made the comments during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff.

"September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad said. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."

This was not the first time that Ahmadinejad questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks.

In 2007, he said during a lecture in New York that the causes and conditions that led to the attacks, as well as who orchestrated them, still need to be examined. He also questioned the Sept. 11 death toll of around 3,000.

(Agencies)

Editor: Li Xianzhi

Netanyahu: My father foresaw 9/11 attacks in 1990s

Press TV, Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:32:05 GMT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his father predicted the 9/11 attacks on New York's twin towers back in the '90s.

The remark was made during the 100th birthday celebration of the premier's father, Benzion Netanyahu, Haaretz reported.

The Israeli prime minister added that those who do not know their past will not understand their presence and will not be able to predict their future.

Benzion Netanyahu is an Israeli historian and Zionist activist.

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