9/11 attacks pre-planned, says Qazi

13 Sep, 2004

Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal President and Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad has alleged that the September 11, 2001 attacks were pre-planned and carried out to initiate a war to subdue the Muslim nations.
Talking to Tehran radio on Sunday, he said that the attacks on trade centres in New York and the Pentagon were part of the roadmap to crush Muslim states under any pretext.
The MMA leader said there was no reason to attack Taleban in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq because whatever President Bush had labelled against them before attacking them could not be materialised even after the passage of years of invasion.
Taleban were blamed for harbouring Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussain for possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
But, he said, these allegations had been proved to be only pretext because Bush could not find any single lethal weapon from Iraq and the report of a commission on September 11 attacks showed amply that there was no linkage between the attacks and Bin Laden, he observed.
He pointed out that if the US was really out to hunt terrorists and eradicate terrorism from the world then why it was silent on the issue of Kashmir and Palestine where massive human rights abuse was underway.
He noted that the US some time even backed India's aggression in Kashmir and Israel's atrocities against innocent Palestinians.
The JI Amir said all the Islamic and ideological organisations in Pakistan held anti-US and anti-war protests all over the country to strongly condemn America's so-called war on terrorism.
Qazi said now the Pakistan army was killing its own citizens in the name of terrorism, only to serve US interests.

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