- An Arab League think tank, the Zayed Center for Coordination
and Follow Up, has hosted a lecture by the author of a book that says
the U.S. military was responsible for the attacks on Sept. 11.
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- Theirry Meyssan, author of "The Appalling Fraud,"
spoke at the event on April 8.
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- A summary of the lecture and Arab media reports about
the event were translated by the <http://www.memri.org/ Middle East
Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
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- ZCCF material says the think tank was established by
the Arab League in 1999 and that the list of speakers the group has hosted
this year includes former Vice President Al Gore, former Secretary of
State James Baker and Neil Bush, brother of President George W. Bush.
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- According to the MEMRI translation, Meyssan asserted
the following in presenting his argument:
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- * "Both Congress and the U.S. media covered up the
truth by not investigating events;
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- * "It was not reported that the White House's Old
Executive Building was bombed, as was a third building in Manhattan;
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- * "The 1,200 detainees held in the U.S. knew nothing
of the attacks, and their names are kept secret so that they cannot
be charged;
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- * "The American military to further its interest
and hegemony over the world was responsible for the attacks;
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- * "It is a possibility that the planes of Sept.
11 were remote-controlled. For two hours before the attack, waves from
a homing device were recorded transmitting from, and interfering with
transmission from, the twin towers, and such a device could be used
to direct airplanes. If the planes were controlled by remote, no hijackers
were needed, thus the passenger lists were fake"; and
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- * "Bin Laden's involvement: 'This myth also does
not stand analysis,' since he was a previous CIA agent who was visited
by the head of the CIA in a Dubai hospital in July."
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- On April 10, says MEMRI, the Saudi government daily The
Saudi Gazette ran a story on the lecture titled "U.S. military officials
behind 9/11 attacks French author." The article detailed Meyssan's
proposal that a United Nations panel be established to find those really
behind Sept. 11 and that until this happens, all American military operations,
including any against Iran or Iraq, should be considered illegal. The
Saudi Gazette quoted Meyssan as stating, " & [T]hose who masterminded
the operations and led them were American terrorists."
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- "The fact that [presidential] communication codes
were decoded by the attackers proves that at least one of the masterminds
of the attack was an American military official," the paper quotes
Meyssan as saying.
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- Said the story, "Commenting on the assumption that
American military officials had planned the attacks, [Meyssan] said that
such an assumption could be true, as a similar thing happened in 1961
when the American command planned internal attacks against American citizens."
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