Viva Palestina Activist Another 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist
by IPT News • Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21 am
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2176/viva-palestina-activist-another-9-11-conspiracy
We reported today on the 9/11 conspiracy theories espoused by a close associate of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man at the center of the Ground Zero mosque effort.
Faiz Khan, a former officer of Rauf's American Society for Muslim Advancement, acknowledges the existence of a militant strand of Islam, but believes 9/11 was "an inside job" in which Muslim terrorists simply may have been patsies.
His suspicions are shared by British Islamist Yvonne Ridley. In an interview with the Tehran Times, Ridley said: "I hate conspiracy theories, but I do believe that the (George W.) Bush administration knew far more about 9/11 in advance of it happening, which is why a full and frank and independent inquiry is needed."
Bin Laden provides the U.S. with "a useful bogeyman" to get what the government wants, Ridley said. Advocates of 9/11 conspiracy theories dismiss videotapes of bin Laden discussing the attacks as fakes:
"If the tapes have been fabricated, it will undoubtedly be a CIA and/or FBI black operation -- some of the latest tapes have been positively way off beam and whacky, which always reveals the hand of U.S. intelligence. They simply cannot convince their target audience because they always go over the top. If we are to believe the last but one tape from Bin Laden, he's now concerned about green issues and the environment! U.S. intelligence think we're all as gullible as the poor American people they con on almost a daily basis."
Ridley has raised money for Viva Palestina (VP), a group founded by ex-British MP George Galloway that has supported Hamas, and she has traveled in VP convoys to Gaza. Ridley also has appeared at fundraisers in the U.S. for the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society in 2002-03.
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Things that make you say, "What?"
Submitted by Donna F, Sep 14, 2010 10:51
Day before yesterday, I came upon a connection between Alex Jones and ABC news..okay, that's odd. Last week there was a piece on Bloomberg having business dealings with one of the mosque developers/financiers. Then this realization last night as I watched O'Reilly...yep, I'm a conservative that has never bought into the idea that anyone could pull off a conspiracy that would involve thousands of people and get away with it. I don't and never will believe that 9/11 was inside job, but I do think there might be a conspiracy involving the Imam, Al Qaeda, Alex Jones, Bloomberg, and ABC...so who finances ABC anyway? Its really just a matter of time before all of this blows up in the Imam's face and the truth does come out. I don't like the extortionist tactics the old man uses...threats if we don't let them build at Ground Zero. Please, we're in danger from Islamic extremist no matter what happens.