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Al Qaeda Wants Credit For 9/11, Slams Truther Ahmadinejad | In the latest issue of Inspire, a magazine put out by an al Qaeda affiliate, a writer disses Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his repeated suggestions that the 9/11 attacks were merely a plot by the U.S. to create a pretense for attacking the Mulsim world. “So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?” the writer said. “Al Qaeda… succeeded in what Iran couldn’t [to curry favor in the Muslim world]. Therefore it was necessary for the Iranians to discredit 9/11 and what better way to do so? Conspiracy theories.” The jousting underscores that Al Qaeda and Iran — despite assertions by some Washington hawks — have long struck adversarial postures toward one another. (HT: Barbara Slavin)