Add Mohamed Morsi to the lists of heads of state who openly support 9/11 truth. Presidents Ahmadinejad of Iran, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, former PM Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, and Fidel Castro of Cuba preceded him. -KB
Top Egyptian presidential candidate doubts al Qaeda role in 9/11
by Ben Birnbaum,
The Washington Times
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| Mohamed Morsi |
Egypt’s
likely next president has long called for the U.S. to hold a
“scientific conference” to determine the real culprits of the Sept. 11
attacks, having cast doubt on
al Qaeda’s role in 9/11 for years.
“The
U.S. administration has never presented any evidences on the identity of those who committed that incident,” longtime
Muslim Brotherhood leader
Mohamed Morsi is quoted as saying in a 2007 posting on Ikhwanweb, the Islamist group’s official English website.
“The
Muslim Brotherhood
and others demanded a transparent trial with clear evidence and to
have court rulings,” he said after the sixth anniversary of the attacks
that killed nearly 3,000 people. “We confirm that this isn’t a defense
to those who committed these actions, but we only seek the truth.”
Mr. Morsi last week won the most votes in the first round of
Egypt’s presidential election, and he is heavily favored to win a runoff this month against secular former Prime Minister
Ahmed Shafik.
He is not the only candidate to have floated conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks:
Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh
- a former Brotherhood figure who finished fourth in last week’s race -
said last year that he believed 9/11 was “part of a conspiracy.”
Mr. Morsi’s remarks underscore the challenges the U.S. likely will face in a Brotherhood-dominated Egypt. The group’s
Freedom and Justice Party won 47 percent of the seats in
Egypt’s parliamentary elections and is expected to play a dominant role in crafting a new constitution.
A call for proof
While condemning the 9/11 attack “regardless of its doer,”
Mr. Morsi lambasted the U.S. response to them, calling the
Bush administration
“the world’s terrorism leader” and accusing it of getting “in line
with Israeli occupation forces in aggression, injustice, encroaching
lands and raping women.”
According to the Brotherhood website’s characterization of his 9/11 remarks,
Mr. Morsi said the U.S. invaded
Afghanistan and
Iraq “due to the
U.S. administration claims that the doers of the 11 September attacks [were] Muslims, without proving such a thing until now.”
In 2008,
Mr. Morsi called on the U.S. to provide “scientific” proof for its account of events.
“We
have officially demanded a fair trial for 9/11 suspects and the
issuance of a detailed scientific report about the attacks, but the
U.S. administration did not respond till now,”
Mr. Morsi told Ikhwanweb.
“This
requires a huge scientific conference that is devoted to analyzing
what caused the attack against a massive structure like the two
WTC towers,” he said, referring to the
World Trade Center. “Should this happen, we will stand firmly against whoever committed this horrific crime against innocent civilians.”
However,
Osama bin Laden, the late
al Qaeda leader, admitted his terror group’s involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks in a videotaped message in October 2004...
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(False! Bin Laden repeatedly denied responsibility for 9/11, deplored the attacks, called them un-Islamic, and blamed "some people with their own agenda" and "American Jews" for the attacks in repeated statements before his death in December, 2001.)