Those Towers Could Have Been Dynamited

Hugo Chavez thinks it’s plausible that the US government was involved in 9/11 (via):

The Venezuelan leader, an outspoken critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, was reacting to a television report investigating a theory that the Twin Towers were brought down with explosives after hijacked airplanes crashed into them in 2001.

“The hypothesis is not absurd . . . that those towers could have been dynamited,” Chavez said in a speech to supporters. “A building never collapses like that, unless it’s with an implosion.”

“The hypothesis that is gaining strength . . . is that it was the same U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack or act against its own people and against citizens of all over the world,” Chavez said.

“Why? To justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed on Afghanistan, on Iraq.”

Clearly, then, just the sort of person Ken would want to do business with:

Details of the deal under discussion emerged in a memo seen by the Guardian that described the progress of meetings between the mayor’s most senior officials, embassy officials and figures from PDV UK, the Venezuelan state oil company.

It said London would receive an unspecified amount of oil as part of the 1.3m barrels needed to run the buses each year. In return the mayor’s aides would promise to “actively and efficiently promote Venezuela’s image in the UK” by highlighting the oil deal’s benefits for London’s poor and by boosting tourism with advertisements on buses.

It surely won’t be long before we get “9/11 – tell us the truth” slogans on London buses.