9/11 'a suspect event'

2008-04-16 14:51

Tehran - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the accepted version of the September 11 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as a "suspect event".

"Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a public rally in the holy city of Qom broadcast live on state television.

"A building collapsed and they said that 3 000 people had been killed, whose names were never published."

"Under this pretext they (the United States) attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then a million people have been killed," he said.

This was the third time within a week that Ahmadinejad had publicly raised doubts about the September 11 airborne attacks on New York and Washington carried out by al-Qaeda militants which killed nearly 3 000 people.

- AFP