'Military complex' ruling the US

'Military complex' ruling the US

French political activist Thierry Meyssan says the United States used 9/11 as a pretext to attack Afghanistan, casting doubts on US claims about the true nature of the terrorist attack. Meyssan made the remarks late Saturday night in Press TV's News Analysis program.

The investigative journalist was among the first to question the official account of 9/11 in his two bestsellers.

In 2002, Meyssan published his controversial work on the September 11 terrorist attacks called 9/11: The Big Lie.

In the book he argues that such attacks were organized by a faction of what he calls "the US military industrial complex" in order to impose a military regime in the US.

The book was followed by Le Pentagate, a book arguing that the attack against the Pentagon was not carried out by a commercial airliner but a missile.

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Nine years after the attacks, he still believes in his arguments on the reality of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, saying, "Since nine years ago, I have found new elements, but they don't change the general meaning of my work... Nine years ago, I was alone to explain that 9/11 is a trick organized by a part of the military complex in the US with the help of the British and Israelis," adding that today, however, 74% of the US population does not believe the Bush version of the accident.

On the real purpose of the US invasion to Afghanistan, he said, "Their purpose was not only to wage a war against Afghanistan, what they were really seeking was to change the regime in the United States, and to install a military regime there."

He elaborated that not only did they want a war in Afghanistan, but they were also planning for a war in Iran and Syria, after attacking Iraq, "but they were stopped by Hezbollah in 2006."

Meyssan was referring to the 33-day war in Lebanon in 2006, also called the Israel-Hezbollah War.

He reiterated that the United States used 9/11 as a pretext to attack Afghanistan, saying, "It is very clear that the war was decided in July during the negotiations between the Bush administration and the Taliban in Berlin... in August NATO put 40,000 soldiers in Egypt to go to Afghanistan…"

Asked about his expression "the US military industrial complex," he explained that the term was formed by former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Cold War era.

"Eisenhower decided to create a military shadow government during the Cold War. He believed in case a nuclear war started by the Soviet Union and if the civilian government were destroyed by any atomic attack, this shadow military government could be in charge of the country," he further explained.

Meyssan believes the problem is that this military government developed itself and continued after the cold war and "now they can decide on very important things in the US."

Defending his theory that the Pentagon was hit by a missile and not an airplane, he said, "There are many eyewitnesses who have testified that they saw a very small thing, like a missile, going towards the Pentagon."

Source: PressTV