Oh, that Mahmoud Ahmadenijad! The provocative, disbelieving Iranian leader is back in the news for some remarks he made to the Iranian Intelligence Ministry, calling the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."
He also said, "The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afghanistan." According to Reuters, "He did not elaborate." Ahmadejnijad has repeatedly brought up the attacks, once saying, they were "a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S."
When Ahmadenijad visited NYC in 2007, his request to visit Ground Zero was turned down. He later told an audience at Columbia University, "I wanted to speak with the press, the September 11 tragic event was a huge event. It led to a lot of other events after that. After 9/11, Afghanistan was occupied and then Iraq was occupied."