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| Ahmadinejad: 9/11 death toll was exaggerated |
| 2010-08-08 |
| Iranian President says no Zionists were killed in the World Trade Center because 'one day earlier they were told not go to their workplace.' Iranian President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad said on Saturday the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were exaggerated in a fresh broadside at the United States just days after U.S. President Barack B.O.Obama voiced willingness to talk to Iran. Well-known for his loose grasp of reality, the hardline 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. "Nope. Nope. Never happened. I asked around to make sure." 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. "They wuz just lookin' for a reason!" Speaking at a Tehran conference, Ahmadinejad said there was no evidence that the number of dead 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. We saw that report. It came from al-Manar, in Beirut, a day or two after the attack. "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. I believe they're read out every year in a ceremony on September 11th. There is a published list of Sept. 11 dead from more than 90 countries available online. But what's that count for? 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 U.S. figures. The United States blamed the assaults on al Qaida, led by Saudi-born Sunni Mohammedan fundamentalist Osama Bin Laden. Ahmadinejad accused the U.S. 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 U.S. and European measures have further tightened restrictions on doing business with the major OPEC country. Obama signaled 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Dinnerjacket just keeps rolling out this nonsense. What a moron. The Adolph Hitler of the Mideast. Maybe more like Joseph Goebbels. “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Goebbels. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-08 12:25 |