French gov’t minister wonders if Bush & co. fixed 9/11

Bush Behind 9/11: French Minister
by IslamOnline.net & News Agencies

http://www.just-international.org/article.cfm?newsid=20002386

A high-profile French politician, now a minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government, has suggested that US President George W. Bush might have been behind the terrorist 9/11 attacks.

“I think it is possible. I think it is possible,” Christine Boutin, now a Housing Minister, said in a video interview that started to seep into the mainstream media and was highlighted by Reuters Saturday, July 07.

Almost 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington in 2001.

The attacks were claimed by Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Some conspiracy theories argue that the collapse of the World Trade Center was the result of a controlled demolition.

Foreign activists and intellectuals did not buy that the massive terrorist operation was the work of Al-Qaeda, arguing that the attacks were orchestrated by the Bush administration to enforce into dominance drive on the world by force.

Some theorists also contend that a commercial airliner did not crash into the Pentagon and that the airline was shot down.

A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll said that more than one-third of Americans believe US officials helped in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop them.

In 2002, a book claiming that no plane hit the Pentagon in the 9/11 attacks topped the French bestseller lists.

The White House revealed a security memo in 2004 under the Freedom of Information Act that warned of possible terrorist acts in the US one month before the 9/11 attacks.

The memo was received by Bush on August 6, 2001, and warned that Al-Qaeda network of Osama Bin Laden had penetrated the United States and could resort to plane hijackings.

Voice of the Masses

Boutin said that the websites that challenge Al-Qaeda role on the attack are drawing the largest numbers of visitors.

“I know that the websites that speak of this problem are websites that have the highest number of visits …,” Boutin said in the interview posted on the website www.ReOpen911.info which promotes the 9/11 conspiracy theories.

“I tell myself that this expression of the masses and of the people cannot be without any truth.”

Boutin’s remarks have immediately drawn attention of the French media.

“Christine Boutin snared by her controversial suggestions about Sept. 11,” Le Monde newspaper said in a headline.

Boutin’s office sought to play down her remarks about Bush’s role in the attacks.

Spokesman Christian Dupont was quoted by Liberation newspaper as saying that Boutin had not wanted to appear pro or anti-Bush at a time when Sarkozy was being branded a “US poodle” after meeting the president in Washington.

“And then she is not the foreign minister,” Dupont added.

Boutin’s office said that she said later in the interview that “I’m not telling you that I adhere to that position.”

But this comment does not appear on the video clip on the website.