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Castro accuses US of â€˜misleadingâ€™ the world about 9-11

12 September 2007 09:26 (UTC +04:00)

Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, on the sixth anniversary of September 11, accused the US government of â€œmisleadingâ€ the world about the attacks on New York and Washington saying it was a missile that struck the Pentagon instead of a hijacked plane. In a new article read by a commentator on state television, Castro said â€œit is known that there was deliberate disinformationâ€ about the attacks against the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon.
â€œWe were deceived, just like the rest of the planet,â€ said Castro, who delegated his powers more than a year ago to his brother Raul to recover from surgery.
The Cuban president said that â€œanalyzing the impact of similar planes in accidents ... the conclusion is that no plane crashed against the Pentagon and that only a missile could have caused that geometrically round orifice supposedly created by a plane.â€
â€œNobody in the world had any doubts about the news received about an attack against the Pentagon,â€ Castro said./APA/