New York – Defector: Iran Aided 9/11 Attacks

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    Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian president Ahmadinejad  (Iranian News Agency ISNA, August 1, 2005)New York – Two defectors from Iran’s intelligence service have testified that Iranian officials had “foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks,” according to a court filing Thursday in a federal lawsuit in Manhattan that seeks damages for Iran’s “direct support for, and sponsorship of, the most deadly act of terrorism in American history.”

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    One of the defectors also claimed that Iran was involved in planning the attacks, the filing said. The defectors’ identities and testimony were not revealed in the filing but were being submitted to a judge under seal, said lawyers who brought the original suit against Iran on behalf of families of dozens of 9/11 victims.

    The suit’s allegation that Iran had foreknowledge of the attacks is hard to assess fully, given that the defectors’ testimony is being filed under seal.

    The suit contends that Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant organization with close ties to Tehran, helped Al Qaeda in planning the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and in facilitating the hijackers’ training and travel. After the attacks, the suit contends, Iran and Hezbollah helped Qaeda operatives escape, providing some with a safe haven in Iran.

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    shooki
    shooki
    12 years ago

    I’m not surprised. Just wondering how it took 10 years to make this discovery. Tell it to those 2 neturei karta idiots to go and shake hands with iran once more.

    Sociologist
    Sociologist
    12 years ago

    What about Iraq?

    12 years ago

    To #2 - Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11/01 attacks. The 9/11/01 Commission Report, did not p[resent one iota of evidence, that Iraq was also behind that attack. The invasion of Iraq was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Bush (#43) essentially finished the job, that his Father (Bush #41 ) failed to complete in 1991.

    12 years ago

    Our government had foreknowledge as well. They knew months beforehand that Al Queda was planning to attempt a strike with airplanes.

    The_Truth
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    The_Truth
    12 years ago

    This information only becomes public now – after Bin Laden is dead and they hope to pull troops out of Afghanistan – so that they can move the “War on Terror” to the next ‘rogue state’ – Iran.

    leahle
    leahle
    12 years ago

    I would be very skeptical about this report. Al Qaida is a Sunni Muslim group. They believe that Shia Muslims, like the Iranians, are heretics. In fact, they have been responsible for many terrorist attacks against Shiites. I seriously doubt Iran had anything to do with Al Qaida. The Iranians have their own Shiite terrorist network (Hezbollah).

    VeyIzMir
    VeyIzMir
    12 years ago

    There must have been a typo in the intelligence letters to Bush back in 2001. It should have said Iran not Iraq.