Ahmadinejad Asks U.N. to Investigate 9/11

Robert Mackey
04/13/2010
New York Times
Original Source: – HYPERLINK http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0302/Bluster-at-UN-Human-Rights-Council-as-US-and-Iran-trade-barbs http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/ahmadinejad-asks-u-n-to-investigate-911/

Iran s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who – HYPERLINK http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/ahmadinejad-calls-911-a-big-fabrication/ said last month that the terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, were  a big fabrication,  wrote to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, on Tuesday to ask him to open an investigation into the events of that day.
In a letter to the secretary general, Mr. Ahmadinejad asked him to  form an independent fact-finding committee trusted by regional countries on major elements behind [the] September 11 attack which was carried out as the main pretext to attack the Middle East,  – HYPERLINK http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1518267&Lang=E according to the Iranian Students News Agency.
The letter also accused  NATO intelligence and security forces in Afghanistan  and  some American and European media  of supporting terrorist attacks by Baluchi militants in Iran s southeast.
Barbara Plett, the BBC s U.N. correspondent, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8616850.stm reports from New York that the secretary general s office  said that it was studying the letter from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but had no comment. 
A somewhat muddled – HYPERLINK http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1518940&Lang=E translation of Mr. Ahmadinejad s letter on the Iranian news agency s Web site suggests that he made an oblique reference to the killing of protesters during the violent crackdown on dissent after Iran s dispute election last year. Accusing Western media organizations of being part of a plot against his country, Mr. Ahmadinejad wrote that they  use a small mistake of a police officer   in countries that defy hegemony and imperialistic policies   to raise loud and deafening cries pretending to be in deep grief for human rights abuse.