September 12, 2006 12:27 PM
CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuela's president says it's "not absurd" to think that Washington had a hand in the Nine-Eleven attacks.
The South American leader who claims the U-S launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq only to solidify political power, now contends a building like one of the World Trade Center towers "never collapses like that" and "could have been dynamited."
Hugo Chavez (OO'-goh CHAH'-vez) says a program he saw on Venezuelan state T-V included a theory about how the U-S could have carried out the attacks in order to, in his words, "justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed" on Afghanistan and Iraq.
In a speech to supporters in Caracas, Chavez says it's a "hypothesis that is gaining strength."