October 2006Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
and 167 members of the National Assembly of Venezuelacall for a 9/11 investigation
Venezuela's legislative National Assembly passed resolution in mid-October of 2006 describing the 9/11 attacks
as "self-inflicted". The resolution, which appeared in the official government gazette in mid-October of 2006,
primarily criticized Washington's decision to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out.
In its fourth paragraph, it called on the U.S. Congress to "demand that the government of President Bush
explain the self-inflicted attack on the World Trade Center and its victims, the supposed aircraft
that crashed into the Pentagon and the links between the bin Laden family and the Bush family.''
The resolution, which was drafted by Carlos Escarrá, deputy chairman Foreign Affairs Commission,
was passed unanimously by the 167-member assembly.
Chavez says U.S. may have orchestrated 9/11
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sept. 12, 2006 said that it’s plausible that the U.S. government was
involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Chavez did not specifically accuse the U.S. government of having a hand in the Sept. 11 attacks, but rather
suggested that theories of U.S. involvement bear examination.
The Venezuelan leader, an outspoken critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, was reacting to a television report
investigating a theory the Twin Towers were brought down with explosives after hijacked airplanes crashed into
them in 2001.
October 2006
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
and 167 members of the National Assembly of Venezuela
call for a 9/11 investigation