Wa****ngton 'speechless' after Ahmadinejad 9/11 comment
WA****NGTON (AFP) - The United States said Wednesday it was
"speechless" after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced doubts
about the accepted version of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New
York and Wa****ngton.
"I am not sure what you say about a statement like that. It leaves one
speechless," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
"It is just misguided, misinformed rhetoric," McCormack said.
"I cannot tell whether or not it is something that he truly believes
or if this is just an attempt to try to shake up public opinion in
Iran or elsewhere," McCormack said.
Earlier Wednesday, Ahmadinejad called the 9/11 attacks a "suspect
event" in a speech at a public rally in the holy city of Qom.
"Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York,"
Ahmadinejad said, in an address carried live on state television.
"A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed,
whose names were never published."
"Under this pretext they (the United States) attacked Afghanistan and
Iraq and since then a million people have been killed," said the
Iranian president.
This was the third time in just over a week that Ahmadinejad has
publicly raised doubts about the September 11 airborne attacks on New
York and Wa****ngton carried out by Al-Qaeda militants which killed
nearly 3,000 people.
He raised the theme for the first time at a ceremony on April 8,
Iran's national day marking its disputed nuclear program, which the
West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons.
The president of Iran at the time of the 9/11 attacks, Mohammad
Khatami, strongly condemned the assault. Tehran did not oppose theUS-
led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime, which was
hostile to the Iranian government.
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Politicians are always speechless when someone speaks the truth.
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