Fidel Castro says U.S. fooled world over 9/11

Edited by Peggy Chan

	Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro challenges the Muslim conspiracy scenario of 9/11, which has been presented by the U.S. Bush administration, and Big Business interests in the mass-media.

"Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the U.S. government misinformed Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks against the United States six years ago," documents Reuters.

In an essay read by a Cuban television presenter on Tuesday night, Castro said the Pentagon was hit by a rocket, not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers.

"Today one knows there was deliberate misinformation," wrote Castro, who has not appeared in public since July of 2006 when life-threatening surgery for a secret illness forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro. v "Studying the impact of planes, similar to those that hit the Twin Towers, that had accidentally fallen on densely populated cities, one concludes that it was not a plane that crashed into the Pentagon," President Castro further said in the Reuters report.

"Only a projectile could have caused the geometrically round hole that allegedly was made by the plane," he also said.

"We were fooled like the rest of the planet's inhabitants," he wrote, the Reuters report further indicates.

President Castro said the truth behind the September 11 attacks with hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people will probably never be known.

Mr. Castro, who was the target of CIA assassination plots after his 1959 revolution, said Cuba tipped off U.S. security services in 1984 about a plan to kill then President Ronald Reagan while he campaigned for re-election in North Carolina.

The information provided by Cuba led to the arrest of a group of would-be assassins and foiled the plot, Mr. Castro further wrote, as documented by Reuters.

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