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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's former premier Mahathir Mohamad claimed
the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, which killed nearly
3,000 people, were staged as an excuse to 'mount attacks on the
Muslim world'.
Speaking at the General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds
(Jerusalem) here, Tun Dr Mahathir said killing as an excuse for war
is not new to the US.
He also argued that Israel was created to solve the 'Jewish
problem' in Europe, saying the Holocaust had failed as a final
solution against the community.
'In September 2001, the World Trade Center was attacked
allegedly by terrorists. I am not sure now that Muslim terrorists
carried out these attacks. There is strong evidence that the
attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make
anything,' The Malaysian Insider reported Dr Mahathir as
saying.
The former premier said Israel was created after the Europeans
failed to massacre the Jewish community.
'The Jews had always been a problem in European countries. They
had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred. But
still they remained, they thrived and they held whole governments
to ransom.
'Even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they
survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for
the world,' said Dr Mahathir, who was noted for his anti-Western
and anti-Zionist stand while in power for 22 years, until October
2003.
Dr Mahathir also expressed his disappointment in US President
Barack Obama, who marked his first year in office yesterday.
'I am a bit disappointed because so far none of his promises has
been kept. He promised to get out from Afghanistan but he ended up
sending more troops there instead. He promised to close down
Guantanamo but he has not closed down Guantanamo.
'It is quite easy to promise during election time but you know
there are forces in the United States which prevent the president
from doing some things. One of the forces is the Jewish lobby,' he
said.
senile old men mani mani........
"......If they can make Avatar, they can make
anything,'
lol
