http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/septiembre/mier12/37reflexiones.html
Reflections of President Fidel Castro
The Empire and Its Lies
(read on Cuban TV September 11, 2007
On September 11, 2001, true chaos reigned in this neighboring
country. For long, planes were forbidden to land at airports. A
countless number of passenger planes were mid-flight somewhere.
These were the news spread by the media in the United States.
There were reports of thousands of victims in New York, including
Twin Tower staff, firefighters and visitors. There were also
reports of people on a passenger plane which was flown into the
Pentagon. We offered to supply the United States with clean blood
from regular donors if it was needed for any eventuality. Blood
donations have long constituted a tradition of the Revolution.
These events happened to coincide with the day in which we had
convened nearly 15,000 higher education students and university
graduates for a 6:00 pm gathering, on the occasion of the
re-opening of the Salvador Allende School, where 3,599 young
people would begin higher studies and avail themselves of new and
tried methods to become primary school teachers.
That painful incident occurred six years ago today. Today, we
know that the public was deliberately misinformed. I don't recall
any talk, that day, of the fact that, in the basements of those
towers, whose higher floors housed the banks of multinational
corporations and other offices, lay nearly 200 tons in gold bars.
An order to shoot to death anyone who attempted to get to the
gold had been issued. The calculations with respect to the steel
structures, plane impacts, the black boxes recovered and what
they revealed do not coincide with the opinions of
mathematicians, seismologists, information, demolition experts
and others. What is most shocking is the claim that we may never
know what actually happened. It is known, however, that a number
of people en route to San Francisco from New Jersey, had
conversations with their relatives when the air vessels were
already under the control of individuals who were not members of
the crew.
An analysis of the impact of planes similar to those against the
towers, following accidental plane crashes in densely-populated
cities, concludes that no plane crashed against the Pentagon and
that only a projectile could have created the geometrically round
hole that the alleged plane created. No passenger that perished
there has turned up, either. No one in the world questioned the
news about the attack on the Pentagon building. We were deceived,
as were the rest of the planet's inhabitants.
ARTICLE
This comes one year after a resolution was published by
Venezuela's legislative National Assembly describing the 9/11
attacks as ''self-inflicted''
in its fourth paragraph, it calls on the U.S. Congress to
``demand that the government of President Bush explain the
self-inflicted attack on the World Trade Center and its victims,
the supposed aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon and the
links between the bin Laden family and the Bush family.''
The resolution, was passed unanimously by Venezuelas 167-member
assembly
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Komsomolskaya Pravda
FULL ARTICLE HERE
U.S. government suspected of masterminding 9/11 attacks
Viktor Baranets, a former expert adviser to the chief of the
Russian General Staff, said the plot to topple the Twin Towers
could have involved U.S. secret services. He said the U.S. ruling
elite needed a pretext to justify a new strategy to fight
terrorism.
Washington accomplished other strategic objectives, including the
invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and boosting national
patriotism, Baranets told the paper.
He said the combined operation could have involved airliners
crewed by suicide pilots and high explosives planted inside the
WTC.
Although it is officially claimed that it took six months to
train Muslim pilots to approach and ram the skyscrapers, any
pilot will tell you that this cannot be accomplished in less than
18 months, Baranets said.
According to him, it is impossible to believe that U.S. secret
services were unable to spot numerous Muslim pilots among Boeing
crews, because Washington was playing up the Islamist threat.
He said somebody had either turned a blind eye to the process or
had orchestrated it.
Despite intensive training, there was no guarantee that the
perpetrators would succeed - the airliner which was supposed to
hit the Pentagon missed, and it was impossible to plant
explosives inside the building, Baranets told the paper.
He said someone could have planted TNT or plastic explosives
inside the Twin Towers, which were being constantly renovated,
and to use a cell phone to detonate them.
