An ex –Al Qaeda Council Member has declared that the attack on the twin Towers on 9/11 was a mistake and he opposed it.
Is it genuine or like the ‘A sad event’ statement of Velupillai Prabhakaran ,LTTE on the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi?
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A former council member of al-Qaida says he opposed the 9/11 plot because it involved killing civilians, and the Taliban already had warned that such a horrific action would produce “consequences” that would be intolerable.
The comments come from Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, who identified himself as a former al-Qaida Shura council member in an interview just days ago on the Al-Jazeera TV network.
The interview was documented by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors media, translates and offers commentary.
According to the MEMRI report, al-Mauritani, who also is known as Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, told the interviewer that during the al-Qaida preparations for the 9/11 attacks, the details were not revealed.
“Nobody said anything about hijacking airplanes, about destroying towers, or about attacking the Pentagon with hijacked planes. It was not presented this way, but just as a violent operation that would be carried out against the USA, leading to thousands of casualties,” he said.
He recalled discussing the strategy with others.
“All those present predicted that the U.S. response to such an operation would not be restricted to a missile attack from afar, as was the case following the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attacks. They thought the natural response would be an invasion into Afghanistan and the toppling of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.”
He continued: “I was the staunchest opponent to such an operation. My opposition was based on religious legal grounds: Jihad is not about pointless killing and destruction.”
He said in the interview: “Jihad is the pinnacle of Islam, one of the finest acts possible, but it does not mean that you can kill and destroy regardless of the consequences. While Islam considers it to be a form of worship, it takes into consideration the consequences of these actions. Anybody who considers the consequences of 9/11 back then realizes that it did more harm than good.”
He said his concern was that civilians would be killed, “and our religion forbids us to kill civilians.”
“In Islam, a civilian is anybody who is not involved in fighting. This includes women, children, the elderly, and ordinary people.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/ex-al-qaida-911-wrong-because-it-killed-civilians/?cat_orig=faith
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In a terse statement, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that Attarzadeh had been freed after a “complicated intelligence operation” by Iranian intelligence forces, without giving further details, apart from a dig at Pakistan: “Following the failure of the Pakistani government to secure the release of Attarzadeh, my ministry took the initiative and managed to rescue the diplomat,” Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said.
ranian state-owned Press TV, he said Israel’s Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, under orders from the US, were behind his abduction.
Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, after a meeting with Attarzadeh, did not comment on these claims, instead taking time for a little back-patting. “The freedom of the diplomat shows the all-out might of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its all-around dominance in the realm of intelligence,” Rahimi was quoted by the semi-official Fars News Agency as saying.
Investigations by Asia Times Online show that while the Iranians did indeed secure Attarzadeh’s release, it came at a price: a deal with al-Qaeda that resulted in the release of high-profile prisoners from Iranian custody. And in the negotiating process, Iran supplied weapons to a top Taliban commander allied with al-Qaeda.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD30Df01.html
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