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al-Qaida upset that Ahmadinejad is a truther
jev1969
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In light of recent arguments on here I thought this was interesting...
It's not often global leaders are chastised by al-Qaida for going too far--but Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has somehow managed the trick. Ahmadinejad is already facing blistering attacks at home from conservative Iranian clerics and politicians on several fronts--and now al-Qaida representatives are assailing him for peddling conspiracy theories that deny the terrorist group's culpability for the Sept. 11 attacks.
According to the new issue of "Inspire" magazine--the English-language propaganda outlet put out by the group's Yemeni affiliate al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)--Ahmadinejad insulted the terrorist group by renewing past conspiratorial claims about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during his speech before the United Nations last week.
"The mysterious September 11 incident" merits an investigation into possible "hidden elements involved" seeking a pretext for America's invasion of the Middle East, Ahmadinejad suggested in his Sept. 22 address to the world body--prompting an immediate walk-out by the United States and several European delegations.
And it seems that this was all a bit much for al-Qaida.
"The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government," an article in Inspire's latest issue argued, according to ABC News' Lee Ferrin. "So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?"For Iran, "al Qaeda was a competitor for the hearts and minds of the disenfranchised Muslims around the world," the article continued. "Al Qaeda... succeeded in what Iran couldn't. Therefore it was necessary for the Iranians to discredit 9/11 and what better way to do so? Conspiracy theories."
Iran is committed only to carrying out "lip-service jihad" against the United States, it added.
Ahmadinejad's 9/11 conspiracy theories were hardly anything new--nor was the American and European walkout that they provoked.
In a meeting that The Envoy attended in the wake of Ahmadenijad's UN address the Iranian leader was more restrained--if not more conciliatory--as he sought to portray equivalences between the United States' and Europe's economic troubles and those of Iran, the target of international sanctions over its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad also discussed his own reported domestic political problems with Iran's hardline clerics, suggesting that the divided political scene in Tehran is not all that different from the partisan rancor President Obama faces in Washington.
The Iranian leader went on to press other not especially persuasive analogies between Iran and the United States. When one of the journalists in attendance asked him about the treatment of Iranian political prisoners, human rights abuses and political repression, for instance Ahmadinejad countered that violence involving police kills 30 Americans every week. And when another reporter queried him about Iran's alleged military and financial support for Bashar al-Assad's crackdown in Syria, Ahmadinejad noted that the successful Arab rebellions in Egypt and Tunisia overturned autocrats long allied with the United States. And so on.
Some of America's "jobless, hopeless youth see no alternative but to join the armed forces," Ahmadinejad said. "We are not happy" when American soldiers die in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Why do they need to die in Afghanistan? . . . Some wish to accuse others. Yet they are ignoring their own fundamental role."
Presumably, in his next UN address, Ahmadenijad will lay out a new conspiracy theory to explain what that fundamental role is. And how al-Qaeda will respond to that will be anyone's guess.
Al Qaeda slams Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories
By Laura Rozen
Senior Foreign Affairs Reporter
PostsEmailRSSBy Laura Rozen
It's not often global leaders are chastised by al-Qaida for going too far--but Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has somehow managed the trick. Ahmadinejad is already facing blistering attacks at home from conservative Iranian clerics and politicians on several fronts--and now al-Qaida representatives are assailing him for peddling conspiracy theories that deny the terrorist group's culpability for the Sept. 11 attacks.
According to the new issue of "Inspire" magazine--the English-language propaganda outlet put out by the group's Yemeni affiliate al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)--Ahmadinejad insulted the terrorist group by renewing past conspiratorial claims about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during his speech before the United Nations last week.
"The mysterious September 11 incident" merits an investigation into possible "hidden elements involved" seeking a pretext for America's invasion of the Middle East, Ahmadinejad suggested in his Sept. 22 address to the world body--prompting an immediate walk-out by the United States and several European delegations.
And it seems that this was all a bit much for al-Qaida.
"The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government," an article in Inspire's latest issue argued, according to ABC News' Lee Ferrin. "So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?"For Iran, "al Qaeda was a competitor for the hearts and minds of the disenfranchised Muslims around the world," the article continued. "Al Qaeda... succeeded in what Iran couldn't. Therefore it was necessary for the Iranians to discredit 9/11 and what better way to do so? Conspiracy theories."
Iran is committed only to carrying out "lip-service jihad" against the United States, it added.
Ahmadinejad's 9/11 conspiracy theories were hardly anything new--nor was the American and European walkout that they provoked.
In a meeting that The Envoy attended in the wake of Ahmadenijad's UN address the Iranian leader was more restrained--if not more conciliatory--as he sought to portray equivalences between the United States' and Europe's economic troubles and those of Iran, the target of international sanctions over its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad also discussed his own reported domestic political problems with Iran's hardline clerics, suggesting that the divided political scene in Tehran is not all that different from the partisan rancor President Obama faces in Washington.
The Iranian leader went on to press other not especially persuasive analogies between Iran and the United States. When one of the journalists in attendance asked him about the treatment of Iranian political prisoners, human rights abuses and political repression, for instance Ahmadinejad countered that violence involving police kills 30 Americans every week. And when another reporter queried him about Iran's alleged military and financial support for Bashar al-Assad's crackdown in Syria, Ahmadinejad noted that the successful Arab rebellions in Egypt and Tunisia overturned autocrats long allied with the United States. And so on.
Some of America's "jobless, hopeless youth see no alternative but to join the armed forces," Ahmadinejad said. "We are not happy" when American soldiers die in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Why do they need to die in Afghanistan? . . . Some wish to accuse others. Yet they are ignoring their own fundamental role."
Presumably, in his next UN address, Ahmadenijad will lay out a new conspiracy theory to explain what that fundamental role is. And how al-Qaeda will respond to that will be anyone's guess.
Al Qaeda slams Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories
By Laura Rozen
Senior Foreign Affairs Reporter
PostsEmailRSSBy Laura Rozen
Comments
Too much evidence to suggest that Al'CIAduh is a puppet.