Egyptian Newspaper Claims 9/11 Was An Inside Job

According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the 9/11 attacks were executed not by Islamic fundamentalists, but by Western intelligence agencies

Columnist for Al-Ahram, Noha Al-Sharnoubi, claims the terrorist attack, which commemorated its 15th anniversary on Sunday, could have been undertaken so that the West could morally justify "the occupation and devastation of the Middle East by the West and the persecution of Muslims in Europe."

Al-Sharnoubi wrote: "I don't know who they are fooling, us or themselves.

"What terror are they talking about and associating with Islam or even with extremist Muslims or people claiming to be Muslims?"

"[Maybe Western] intelligence elements are behind the attacks and the bombings, and later Muslim citizens are arrested and killed and simply accused of perpetrating [the attacks] in order to justify what is happening in the Arab countries in the name of the war on terror."

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Beliefs like this are not uncommon, even in the West. However, Al-Sharnoubi did go a step further by pondering whether supporters shown in ISIS videos are actually western actors.

"Do you remember, as I do, the size and the appearance of the alleged ISIS members in that video that showed them butchering an alleged group of Egyptian Christians in Libya?" She asked.

"Is it not strange that all the ISIS [fighters] were equally tall, had the same white [skin], and wore identical expensive foreign[-made] watches?"

Featured image credit: PA

Josh Teal

Josh Teal is a journalist at LADbible. He has contributed to the 'Knowing Me, Knowing EU' and 'UOKM8?' campaigns interviewing everyone from student drug dealers to climate change activists.

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