[THS] !!! Zawahiri Claims Iran Behind 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

[Peter Webster]

http://www.infowars.com/?p=1649

Al-CIAda Sock Puppet Zawahiri Claims Iran Behind 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Al-CIAda sock puppet Ayman al-Zawahiri was quoted in an audiotape
released today accusing Iran of being behind 9/11 conspiracy theories,
in another crude public relations stunt designed to generate hostile
opinion towards the 9/11 Truth Movement.

The tape had been promised three weeks ago by monitoring group
IntelCenter, who have been caught in the past putting out fake and
misleading "Al-Qaeda" material via the alleged media arm of the
terrorist organization As-Sahab, and was finally released today.

The set-up revolved around Al-Zawahiri’s responding to questions
submitted by the public via the Internet.

    One of the questioners asked about the theory that has circulated in
the Middle East and elsewhere that Israel was behind the 2001 attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," reports the Associated
Press.

    Al-Zawahiri accused Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television of starting the
rumor.

    "The purpose of this lie is clear — (to suggest) that there are no
heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt America as no else did in
history. Iranian media snapped up this lie and repeated it," he said.

As anyone with even a superficial knowledge of the 9/11 truth
movement can attest to, the sock puppet Zawahiri’s claim that Iran
were the first to question the official 9/11 story is completely ludicrous.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent bumbling comments
about 9/11, the date of which he cannot even accurately remember,
were music to the ears of Neo-Cons who seized upon the statements as
fodder to debunk the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Zawahiri’s single sentence retort, and the fact that it has been used to
generate headlines that link alternative theories about 9/11 with ‘those
evil Iranians’ in a clear smear effort, is highly suspicious considering the
history of these "Al-Qaeda tapes" and Zawahiri’s own background.

Is this Neo-Con friendly Al-Zawahiri a different person to the real Al-
Zawahiri who was reported to have been captured in Tehran in
February 2002?

Is this a different Al-Zawahiri to the one reportedly captured near the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border in September 2004?

Or is this the same Al-Zawahiri who, as the head of the Egyptian Islamic
Jihad, fought for the CIA in Bosnia?

Is this the same Al-Zawahiri who, according to January 2000 U.S.
Congressional testimony, was granted U.S. residence by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service - something almost impossible
for many legitimate immigrants to obtain?

Is this the same Al-Zawahiri whose brother Zaiman is running terrorist
camps under NATO protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo?

Previous tapes which featured Ayman al-Zawahiri were found to be
cobbled together from old footage but that doesn’t bother a lapdog
media well versed in manufacturing consent and never offering
retractions when said tapes turn out to be questionable frauds.

A 2006 Ayman al-Zawahiri tape was studied by a computer expert, who
discovered that the As-Sahab logo (the alleged media arm of Al-Qaeda)
and the IntelCenter logo (a U.S. based private intelligence organization
that "monitors terrorist activity") were both added to the video at the
same time - meaning the Pentagon-affiliated group releasing the tapes
were slapping on the Al-Qaeda brand right before they released them
to the media. The expert suspiciously reversed his stance a day later
despite producing detailed technical analysis to justify his claim.

Any credibility that these so-called "Al-Qaeda tapes" had was devastated
after our investigation revealed that the people putting them out had
connections into the highest ranks of the military-industrial complex.

In our exposé, we unveiled the ties between IntelCenter, a group that
regularly ‘obtains’ Al-Qaeda tapes and the Pentagon. IntelCenter is an
offshoot of IDEFENSE, which was staffed by a senior military psy-op
intelligence officer, Jim Melnick, who has worked directly for Donald
Rumsfeld.

IntelCenter were behind the October 2006 release of the "laughing
hijackers" tape that showed Mohammad Atta and Ziad Jarrah allegedly
attending a 2000 Al-Qaeda meeting and reading their last will and
testament.

Segments of the video that were interspersed with footage of the
"laughing hijackers," Jarrah and Atta, showing Bin Laden giving a
speech to an audience in Afghanistan on January 8 2000, were culled
from what terror experts described as surveillance footage taken by a
"security agency."

News reports at the time contained the admission that the U.S.
government had been in possession of the footage since 2002, while
others said it was found when the United States invaded Afghanistan in
2001, and yet it was still bizarrely reported that the tape, bearing all the
hallmarks of having been filmed and edited by undercover US
intelligence and having admittedly been in US possession for five years,
was released over the weekend of September 31/October 1 by "Al-
Qaeda".

The video also contained segments that were first broadcast in a British
documentary called The Road to Guantanamo, which was originally
aired in March 2006. The context of the corresponding scene in the
dramatized documentary featured U.S. interrogators attempting to
coerce Gitmo detainees into confessing Al-Qaeda membership by
showing them fake videos where their likeness had been computer
generated to appear as if they were in attendance during Bin Laden’s
January 8 2000 speech.

IntelCenter were also behind the release of the July 2007 "new" Bin
Laden tape, which in actual fact was old footage filmed in 2001 and had
been released, including by IntelCenter itself, on no less than two
previous occasions spanning back five years.

Al-Zawahiri has a history of popping up at the most politically expedient
times, most notably when he appeared right before State of the Union
speeches two years running, to attack Bush’s policy in Iraq and allow
him to use Al-Zawahiri’s words as a rallying call to prolong the
occupation, following in the footsteps of Dick Cheney and former Press
Secretary Tony Snow, who had compared troop surge skeptics to Al-
Qaeda sympathizers.

His latest comments linking the questioning of the official 9/11 story with
America’s supposed enemy, Iran, are transparently part of a crude ploy
to allow the media to embark on a fresh round of demonizing legitimate
9/11 truth activists.