Ahmadinejad Doubts 9/11 Death Toll

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ahmadinejadIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were exaggerated in a fresh broadside at the United States just days after President Barack Obama voiced willingness to talk to Iran.

Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the hardline populist Ahmadinejad also repeated his denial of the Holocaust, and said Israelis had been tipped off in advance.

Ahmadinejad said the Sept. 11 attacks with hijacked airliners on New York and Washington DC 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.

“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.

There is a published list of Sept. 11 dead from more than 90 countries available online.

A total of 2,995 people were killed in the attacks, including 19 hijackers and all passengers and crew aboard four commandeered airliners, according to official US figures. The United States blamed the assaults on al-Qaeda, led by Saudi-born Sunni Muslim fundamentalist Osama Bin Laden.

Ahmadinejad accused the US government of exercising more media censorship than anywhere in the world. 

He had previously said the “9-11” attacks were a “big fabrication” and has rejected the historical record of the Holocaust. On Saturday, Ahmadinejad repeated his belief that the Holocaust had been invented to justify the creation of Israel.

 “They made up an event, the so-called Holocaust which was later laid as the basis for the innocence of a group,” he said.

Ahmadinejad last week challenged Obama to a televised debate on global issues during his trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.

Two years ago, he asked to visit the site of the World Trade Center “to pay his respects” but New York police refused.

Washington succeeded in June in getting a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions imposed on Iran to pressure it to suspend its disputed nuclear program.

Tougher US and European measures have further tightened restrictions on doing business with the major OPEC country.

Obama signalled on Thursday he was open to talks with the Islamic Republic and was seeking “a clear set of steps that we would consider sufficient to show that they are not pursuing nuclear weapons”.

 Ahmadinejad has said he is prepared to return to international talks, which were last held in October, but insists that Iran has the sovereign right to enrich uranium.

{Reuters/Matzav.com Newscenter}


7 COMMENTS

  1. We have a stirah here. If you search on the top right of every matzav page the words “Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 Attacks a ‘Big Lie’” he says it never happened at all!

  2. it’s unfortunate that the recent attempt on his life was unsuccessful; when it happens b’eH, I think people everywhere should simply deny that he was killed!

  3. Looks like we have another “truther”. Is there anything crazy that he WON’T say? What if we said responded to him with something “crazy” like: Government goons and not Zionists killed those protesters last year because they were opposed to his rule. Hmm, maybe since he lives in upside-down land he’ll dismiss that as a “conspiracy theory”?

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