Venezuela: Hugo Chavez Spreads 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

September 13, 2006

Venezuela: Hugo Chavez Spreads 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

If the Muslim dream of a world-wide Caliphate comes to pass, the “self-aggression hypothesis”, as Prensa Latina calls it, will become part of its official history and a cruel, mad tyrant like Hugo Chavez will be hailed as a courageous visionary: Chavez Comments on 9/11 Theories

Caracas, Sep 12 (Prensa Latina) Along with an increasing number of people in the world and in the US, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez expressed doubts Tuesday about whether the NY Twin Towers fell because of the impact of planes piloted by terrorists.

It doesn’t matter whether more people are believing this nuttery; doubt coming from self-deception speaks badly of the doubter.

Recalling the self-aggression hypothesis [termed conspiracy theory in the US], he commented that the hypothesis gaining strength is that the imperial power planned and directed that horrible attack against its own people and others to justify the aggressions against Afghanistan, Iraq, and against Venezuela.

Prensa Latina is Cuba’s “News Agency”, e.i., the propaganda mouthpiece of the Cuban regime. I believe the parenthetical was inserted by an editor, because the writer didn’t have the nerve to acknowledge the “U.S.” calls the “hypothesis” a conspiracy theory without authorization from above.

In his speech at a ceremony on the date of the fifth anniversary of the Women’s Development Bank (Banmujer), the dignitary pointed out that it is impossible for a steel mass built to resist earthquakes and the impacts of planes to fall so quickly and easily.

Other publications, such as, heck, the AP release, claim Chavez wasn’t endorsing the theory. But in this paragraph he pretty much does so. It is a sad commentary on the state of the Press that when it comes to certain stories, you can get better information from a Communist mouthpiece.

Noting that architects taking part in the construction of the towers and explosive experts endorse the self-attack hypothesis, the president said it is not ridiculous to think of the placing of explosive charges.

A reference would be nice, but no, repeating the lie is a far more effective propaganda technique.

That hypothesis, he added, was strengthened by reports noting that a few hours after the attack a US plane took relatives of Osama Bin Laden, assumed mastermind of the horrific act, out of US territory.

This is a problem of interpretation; the U.S. hauled away the bin Laden family out of fear there would be retaliatory attacks against them. It is to the everlasting shame of our government that it put the safety of the family over the safety of our people.

The truth is that the entire world is threatened by that obscene, immoral and murderous empire, he stressed.

You would think he was talking about his dictatorship, but sadly no: there is no way Venezuela can be regarded as an empire, not even using the twisted definition Chavez is using.