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It appears you can add Jeremy Corbyn to the list of 9/11 conspiracy theorists, as a new report has revealed that the Labour leader once claimed that the September 11 terrorist attacks were “manipulated” by the West so it could go to war with Afghanistan.

Corbyn made the conspiracy theory claims in an article he wrote 12 years ago, in which he criticised Tony Blair and George W Bush for using the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York as an excuse to go to war.

The now-66-year-old added that Osama bin Laden was made to look responsible to facilitate the UK Prime Minster and U.S. President’s aims.



In the 2003 piece for The Morning Star, Corbyn wrote:

"Historians will study with interest the news manipulation of the past 18 months. After September 11, the claims that bin Laden and al-Qaida had committed the atrocity were quickly and loudly made. This was turned into an attack on the Taliban and then, subtly, into regime change in Afghanistan."

In a number of prior articles, Corbyn appeared to endorse the controversial conspiracy theories about the ‘New World Order’.



In 2011, Corbyn famously said that it was “a tragedy” that Bin Laden was never put on trial, a statement he was recently misquoted on by those who oppose him.

In that interview, he said:

"There was no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him, to put him on trial, to go through that process. This was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy. The World Trade Center was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died. Torture has come back on to the world stage, been canonised virtually into law by Guantanamo and Bagram. Can’t we learn some lessons over this?"

Jeremy Corbyn is conducting his first Labour conference as leader today, already calling for a crackdown on tax avoidance but admitting that he will face a battle convincing MPs that the UK’s Nuclear Trident plans should be scrapped.

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