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Title: Castro says US lied about 9/11 attacks
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guardian
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,,2167354,00.html
Published: Sep 12, 2007
Author: Mark Tran
Post Date: 2007-09-12 10:23:33 by Artisan
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Castro says US lied about 9/11 attacks Mark Tran and agencies Fidel Castro has accused America of spreading disinformation about an explosion at the Pentagon on September 11 2001. Photograph: AP Fidel Castro today joined the band of September 11 conspiracy theorists by accusing the US of spreading disinformation about the attacks that took place six years ago. In a 4,256-word article read by a Cuban television presenter last night, the country's leader asserted that the Pentagon was hit by a rocket, not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers. "Only a projectile could have created the geometrically round orifice created by the alleged airplane," he said. "We were deceived as well as the rest of the planet's inhabitants," he said. In fact, the remains of the bodies of the crew and passengers of American Airlines flight 77 were found at the Pentagon crash site, and positively identified by DNA. As for the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, Mr Castro wrote that the way the passenger jets crashed into the twin towers on September 11 and the data from the plane's black boxes "do not correspond with the criteria of mathematicians, seismologists, and information and demolition specialists". But in a glaring omission, Mr Castro's conspiracy theory failed to mention Osama bin Laden, who this week issued a video praising one of the hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Centre, and his militant Islamist al-Qaida network. In his article, Mr Castro said the truth behind the attacks with hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people would probably never be known. The Cuban government originally condemned the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington hours after they occurred. Within days it had organised a rally to express solidarity with Americans and Mr Castro said Cuba offered to donate blood. Mr Castro has not appeared in public since mid-2006, when he underwent intestinal surgery and ceded power to his younger brother Raul. In late March, he began writing occasional essays on mostly international themes. Mr Castro himself was the target of several failed assassination attempts by the US after he took power in 1959. He also claimed in his essay that Cuba tipped off US security services in 1984 about a plan to kill the then president, Ronald Reagan, while he was campaigning for re-election in North Carolina. The information provided by Cuba led to the arrest of a group of would-be assassins and foiled the plot, he wrote. Full text Special reports Attack on America Afghanistan Political response to September 11 Media response to September 11 The terrorism threat to Britain United States Interactive guides Click-through guides to the events of September 11 Video and audio America's day of terror Comment and analysis Writers' responses to September 11 Photo galleries Images of the September 11 attacks The victims Timeline 11.09.2001: Terror and its aftermath Useful links List of the victims - New York Times
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#1. To: All (#0)
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Ain't it sad when the likes of Castro and Chavez tell the more truth than our govt & media? ha ha, the 'conservative republicans' would never get it
Indeed.
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Fidel does have credibility as one liar ought to be able to recognize another liar.
if we railed against catsro or chavez like we did our govt we'd have been rounded up long ago. F--k them both.
Yep...and Castro meade no mention of the Osama bin Drinkin' video "praising one of the hijackers"] because Castro knows as well as anyone that Osama videos are fake, produced in a Pentagon studio, and that the real bin Drinkin' lives in a suburban Virginia home, sans beard, on the CIA payroll.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Interesting. That is exactly what the Warren II investigation in to the JFK assasination concluded. IOW - They got away with it. Good job, Bushie.
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#2. To: All (#0)
'Fidel and Hugo are right about 9/11',
#3. To: Artisan (#2)
Ain't it sad when the likes of Castro and Chavez tell the more truth than our govt & media?
#4. To: Artisan (#0)
Fidel Castro today joined the band of September 11 conspiracy theorists by accusing the US of spreading disinformation
#5. To: robin (#3)
#6. To: Artisan (#2)
Ain't it sad when the likes of Castro and Chavez tell the more truth than our govt & media?
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
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#7. To: Artisan (#0)
In his article, Mr Castro said the truth behind the attacks with hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people would probably never be known.
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