9/11

In 2006 Hugo Chávez first doubted the official version of the 9/11 2001 attacks. According to Associated Press, Chávez said:

“The hypothesis is not absurd ... that those towers could have been dynamited,” Chavez said in a speech to supporters. “A building never collapses like that, unless it’s with an implosion.”

“The hypothesis that is gaining strength ... is that it was the same U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack or act against its own people and against citizens of all over the world,” Chavez said. “Why? To justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed on Afghanistan, on Iraq.”

Chavez has said the U.S. launched those wars to ensure its political and economic power.

Since then, every anniversary of the attacks government media carries stories suggesting the plausibility of conspiracy theories about the events (See previous years here, and here.)

Yesterday, Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias published this piece by Rosiris Ortega, “11 September: The Twin Towers and the Beginning of a War.”

According to Ortega, the official story of terrorists crashing planes against buildings is “a story bearing more doubts than certainties.”

Her main source for these doubts is the Italian documentary “ZERO INCHIESTA SULL’11 SETTEMBRE”, available in YouTube subtitled in Spanish.

Writes Ortega: “Victims and witnesses assured they had heard various explosions inside the buildings, minutes after the collapse, and [several explosions] before the total collapse, seemingly organized, as has been claimed by several engineering and architecture experts in the documentary EEUU-11 Septiembre. El complot de la CIA contra su Propio Pueblo.” (My assessment of the engineering expert community advancing these theories can be read here.)