Fidel Castro says U.S. fooled world over 9/11

[chilli]

Fidel Castro says U.S. fooled world over 9/11

Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:03PM EDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the U.S. government misinformed Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks against the United States six years ago.

In an essay read by a Cuban television presenter on Tuesday night, Castro said the Pentagon was hit by a rocket, not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers.

"Today one knows there was deliberate misinformation," wrote Castro, who has not appeared in public since July of 2006 when life-threatening surgery for a secret illness forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro.

"Studying the impact of planes, similar to those that hit the Twin Towers, that had accidentally fallen on densely populated cities, one concludes that it was not a plane that crashed into the Pentagon," Castro said.

"Only a projectile could have caused the geometrically round hole that allegedly was made by the plane," he said.

"We were fooled like the rest of the planet's inhabitants," he wrote.

Castro said the truth behind the September 11 attacks with hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people will probably never be known.

Castro's 4,256-word essay made no mention of Osama bin Laden and his militant Islamist al Qaeda network behind the attacks on New York's World Trade Center and Washington.

Castro, who was the target of CIA assassination plots after his 1959 revolution, said Cuba tipped off U.S. security services in 1984 about a plan to kill then President Ronald Reagan while he campaigned for re-election in North Carolina.

The information provided by Cuba led to the arrest of a group of would-be assassins and foiled the plot, he wrote.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNew...146186220070912

[Auxin]

Wow, that article has pretty blatant bias- between terms like 'conspiracy theory' 'secret illness' and stating bin ladens and al quaidas involvement as absolute fact it sounds like this reporter is trying to paint castro as a delusional nutball so readers are biased against any more balanced reporting that will surface.

Interesting

Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.

– Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propadanda And Persuasion

[chilli]

Wow, that article has pretty blatant bias- between terms like 'conspiracy theory' 'secret illness' and stating bin ladens and al quaidas involvement as absolute fact it sounds like this reporter is trying to paint castro as a delusional nutball so readers are biased against any more balanced reporting that will surface.

Interesting

Yeah the article is total spin, still I thought it was interesting what Castro said. I assume most people here can see beneath the media sheen, but maybe I shouldn't.

Also, it is unusual for stories that report about 'conspiracy theorist nutcases' to actually provide credible details of the theories, as they have done here.

[Auxin]

I assume most people here can see beneath the media sheen, but maybe I shouldn't.

I never assume that of any group.

Your right, they did provide more detail than most- could just innocently be a portion of the media itself that cant see beneath the media sheen.

And good on Castro for speaking up.