Telegraph Changes Horses Mid-Stream
When I first saw this article earlier today, the headline read: Iran Accused of Complicity in World Trade Center Attack.
A few hours later, the headline has been drastically revised, and not in a good way: Now America accuses Iran of complicity in World Trade Center attack.
What the hell’s happening at the Telegraph?
Iran gave free passage to up to 10 of the September 11 hijackers just months before the 2001 attacks and offered to co-operate with al-Qa’eda against the US, an American report will say this week.
The all-party report by the 9/11 Commission, set up by Congress in 2002, will state that Iran, not Iraq, fostered relations with the al-Qa’eda network in the years leading up to the world’s most devastating terrorist attack.
Thomas Kean, chairman of the 9/11 Commission
The bipartisan commission has established that between eight and 10 of the September 11 hijackers, who had been based in Afghanistan, travelled through Iran between October 2000 and February 2001. The terrorists in question are believed to have been the “muscle” - hired to storm the aircraft cockpits and overpower crew and passengers.
Iranian officials were instructed not to harrass al-Qa’eda personnel as they crossed the border and, in some cases, not to stamp their passports.