
more catapulting the propaganda... hope it's a good thing!
SO far so good--seems like the likely future leadership of Egypt is actually quite good on the issues!
Top Egyptian presidential candidate doubts al Qaeda role in 9/11
By Ben Birnbaum
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The Washington Times
Thursday, May 31, 2012
**FILE** Egyptian presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi (Associated Press)
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The longtime Muslim Brotherhood leader who is favored to become Egypt’s next president has long cast doubt on al Qaeda’s involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attack and even has called for a “scientific conference” to determine the real culprits.
“The U.S. administration has never presented any evidences on the identity of those who committed that incident,” Mohamed Morsi is quoted as saying in a 2007 posting on Ikhwanweb, the Brotherhood’s official English website.
“The Muslim Brotherhood and others demanded a transparent trial with clear evidence and to have court rulings,” he said after the sixth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. “We confirm that this isn’t a defense to those who committed these actions but we only seek the truth.”
While condemning the attacks “regardless of its doer,” Mr. Morsi lambasted the U.S. response to them, calling the Bush administration “the world’s terrorism leader” and accusing it of getting “in line with Israeli occupation forces in aggression, injustice, encroaching lands and raping women.”
Mr. Morsi last week won the most votes in the first round of Egypt’s presidential election, and is heavily favored to win a runoff next month against Ahmed Shafik.
According to the Brotherhood website’s characterization of his 9/11 remarks, Mr. Morsi said the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and Iraq “due to the U.S. administration claims that the doers of the 11 September attacks [were] Muslims, without proving such a thing until now.”
In 2008, Mr. Morsicalled on the U.S. to provide “scientific” proof for its account of events.
“We have officially demanded a fair trial for 9/11 suspects and the issuance of a detailed scientific report about the attacks, but the U.S. Administration did not respond till now,” Mr. Morsi told Ikhwanweb.
“This requires a huge scientific conference that is devoted to analyzing what caused the attack against a massive structure like the two WTC towers,” he said, referring to the World Trade Center. “Should this happen, we will stand firmly against whoever committed this horrific crime against innocent civilians.”
Mr. Morsi is not the only Egyptian presidential candidate to have voiced conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Washington Times reported last week that Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh — a former Brotherhood figure who finished fourth in last week’s race — said last year that he believes 9/11 was “part of a conspiracy.”
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