Ahmadinejad says US used 9/11 to arouse sympathy

Source: PressTV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120676&sectionid=351020101

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that no "Zionist" was inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, as the terrorists flew the two hijacked planes into the two towers.

President Ahmadinejad said the arrogance, which "demonstrates the satanic characteristics of Satan," sought to evoke sympathy by showing the impact of the planes jamming into the towers.

Led by Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda is believed to have carried out the attacks. Fifteen of the 19 plotters of terror attacks were Saudi nationals.

The terror attacks paved the ground for former President George W. Bush to dispatch the US Army to Afghanistan and Iraq and initiate two unpopular, costly wars that continue to date.

President Ahmadinejad said the US government was quick to pronounce that the terrorists were "Muslims," the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

"They launched a propaganda campaign for six months; they said 3,000 people were killed in the towers … but everyone knows that on the day of the attacks on the two towers, many of the Zionists had left the buildings since they already knew [about the terror plot]," he said.

"[The US Army] killed 100,000 people in Afghanistan and acted in a way that no one would ask them why this happened."

Iran says the presence of foreign troops in the Middle East is the reason behind instability in the region.