Pence says Iran's Qasem Soleimani aided 9/11 hijackers. Experts say that's not true

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Pence says Iran's Qasem Soleimani aided 9/11 hijackers. Experts say that's not true
Nicholas Wu
USA TODAY

Qasem Soleimani assisted the 9/11 hijackers in traveling to Afghanistan.

In a thread laying out Soleimani's "worst atrocities," Pence included how Soleimani "assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States."

Links between Soleimani and the 9/11 attacks have not been proven, as experts noted.

Daniel Byman, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a staff member on the 9/11 Commission, told USA TODAY, "To my knowledge, there's no evidence Soleimani was directly running the 9/11 operatives that were transiting Iran."

Although there were links between Al Qaeda and Iran, it was "not true" that Iran was behind the 9/11 attacks, Byman said.

As the bipartisan report from the 9/11 Commission concluded, "We have found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack."

The tweet drew condemnation from experts, journalists and former government officials, who pushed back on the statement.


Holly Dagres

✔@hdagres
https://twitter.com/hdagres/status/1213522260608327684

The President of the United States is pinning Benghazi on Iran. Then to top it off, the Vice President of the United States is pinning 9/11 on Iran.

This is not only reckless, it’s dangerous misinformation.



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Blake News

✔@blakehounshell
· Jan 3, 2020

So, there were 19 hijackers. And the 9/11 report says only this: "[W]e now have evidence suggesting that 8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi 'muscle' operatives traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001." (p. 240) https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report.pdf … https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1213189757708189699 …

Mike Pence

✔@Mike_Pence
Replying to @Mike_Pence
Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.


David Lapan@DaveLapanDC

Also this: "We have found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attacks. At the time of their travel through Iran, the Al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the specific details of their future operation."


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Ali H. Soufan

✔@Ali_H_Soufan
https://twitter.com/Ali_H_Soufan/status/1213205267619491840

Mr. Vice President,
First, there were 19 terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks: 15 Saudis, 2 Emiratis, 1 Egyptian, and 1 Lebanese.
Second, there are lots of bad things Soleimani did, this is not one of them. https://twitter.com/mike_pence/status/1213189757708189699 …

Mike Pence

✔@Mike_Pence
Replying to @Mike_Pence
Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.


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More:Qasem Soleimani: The Pentagon had tracked Iranian general for years before he was killed

More:Iran ambassador to UN on Soleimani killing: 'the response for a military action is military action'

Pence's critics were also quick to note how there were 19 hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks, not 12.

Pence's press secretary Katie Waldman stood by the assertion, saying "12 of the 19 transited through Afghanistan. 10 of those 12 were assisted by Soleimani."

The New York Times reported, was not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission's report.

Soleimani was killed in an airstrike on his convoy ordered by President Donald Trump on Thursday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the attack had been ordered to avert an "imminent threat." About 3,000 more soldiers are to be deployed to Kuwait to reinforce existing forces.

Iran has threatened "harsh retaliation" and "military action" against those responsible for Soleimani's killing.


Mike Pence

✔@Mike_Pence
· Jan 3, 2020

Replying to @Mike_Pence
Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.


Kevin M. Kruse

✔@KevinMKruse

12?

There were 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks.

(15 were from Saudi Arabia, 2 from the UAE, 1 each from Egypt and Lebanon.)


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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...soleimani-assisted-9-11-hijackers/2812917001/

 

[Arian]

The US is discrediting itself more than before. Nobody buys what the US government says anymore, not even ordinary Americans living in the US.

 

[bdslph]

usa talks crazy and rubbish all the time ...

 

[masterchief_mirza]

I heard Soleimani also assassinated JFK.

 

[Path-Finder]

using 9/11 to make up an argument to attack nations at will is not going to fly anymore.

I guess another 9/11 will be needed to justify further attacks.

 

[YeBeWarned]

But US attacked Afghanistan, than Iraq , and based on where AQ pops up they literally destroyed those countries, now the same 9/11 is used for Iran ? at least bring some new excuse ..

 

[Cthulhu]

Pence is a cocksucker.

 

[Valar.]

I guess another 9/11 will be needed to justify further attacks.

And this is exactly what US wants and expecting Iran to take the bait.
Iran takes the bait - game over for Iran
Iran does not take the bait - game over for iran(no more bravado, no more influence in region)

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Soleimani was the one who triggerred Big Bang.

 

[xyxmt]

In a new revelation, Qasim Sulemani gave birth to Usama bin Ladin

 

[Sabretooth]

This might turn into a great MEME yet.

 

[raptor22]

america has started to decline with a free fall slope..not surprise when such clowns take the power ...

 

[PakFactor]

The moment US elected this Orange clown morally its been going down from their sadly -- and you have the stiff looking dildo (Pence) to complete it -- like I said before many times the average American is born retarded Trump and his children are the biggest example. Not one of his kids talk sense and you have that new born Baron looking like an autist retard.

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

I heard Soleimani also assassinated JFK.

and he provided material support to the british back in 1770's

 

[TruthHurtz]

and he provided material support to the british back in 1770's

Here's an abridged list of Soleimani's crimes.

• Planned 911
• Trained Saddam Hussein in terrorism
• Designed Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction
• Was the father of Osama Bin Laden (lovechild)
• Wrote the script for “The Last Jedi”
• Killed Nicole Brown Simpson
• Was the Third Man
• Planned the Gulf of Tonkin attack
• Attacked the USS Liberty
• Bombed the King David Hotel
• Thwarted the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
• Interfered with the editing process of David Lynch’s “Dune”
• Gave Elvis Presley bad medical advice
• Assassinated JFK
• Mentored Harvey Weinstein
• Designed the Berlin Wall
• Convinced Hitler to invade Poland
• Masterminded the Holocaust
• Denied the Holocaust
• Shot Franz Ferdinand
• Falsely accused Alfred Dreyfus of wrongdoing
• Falsely accused Leo Frank of child murder
• Sank the USS Maine
• Bombed the Titanic
• Wrote the Communist Manifesto
• Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
• Trained Napoleon
• Led the British forces against George Washington
• Led the Irish forces in the English Civil War
• Led the Barbarian forces against Rome
• Stabbed Julius Caesar