Utusan sees truth in theory blaming CIA for MH370’s disappearance

Malaysia

Utusan sees truth in theory blaming CIA for MH370’s disappearance

April 06, 2014
Latest Update: April 06, 2014 08:10 pm

Utusan Malaysia compares speculations of CIA's involvement in the MH370 saga to conspiracy theories which followed the 9/11 attacks in the US. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, April 6, 2014.Umno mouthpiece Utusan Malaysia today said there may be truth to a conspiracy theory blaming the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA, for the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The daily's assistant editor Ku Seman Ku Hussein said it was time "to think outside the box" about the biggest tragedy to affect Malaysia and the world aviation history, saying the incident could be a ploy to tarnish the good relations between Malaysia and China.
"If the CIA could arrange for the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, it is not improbable to link MH370 with the intelligence agency," he wrote, referring to speculations on the involvement of American intelligence in the 9/11 attacks.

"What if the MH370 tragedy had been arranged by certain parties to put Malaysia's relationship with China in jeopardy?" Ku Seman asked in an opinion piece in the paper’s weekend edition Mingguan Malaysia.
He said conspiracies at the highest levels involving the CIA with the September 11 tragedy were not something new, adding that facts and convincing arguments had been put forward to support this claim.
"Many parties have accepted that the September 11 incident was a plan by the United States to get a free ticket to attack Afghanistan and Iraq," Ku Seman said.
A month after the 9/11 attacks which were blamed on al-Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden, President George Bush launched an attack on Afghanistan, hoping to remove the Taliban which had been providing Osama a safe haven.
Ku Seman said Malaysia ought to have its suspicion of outside parties with "wild past", which it said wanted to disrupt the country's bilateral ties with China.
"The September 11 conspiracy which had been previously treated as nonsense was now a fact, and Putrajaya must look at it from a different point of view."
Utusan, citing news broadcaster CNN's coverage of the MH370 saga, said the station was "emotional when Malaysia did not allow the CIA to head the search and rescue operations for MH370".
"The network then fanned the anger of families and relatives in China until it has begun to threaten the relationship between both countries," said Ku Seman.
Saying not all views should be dismissed as nonsense or conspiracy theories, Ku Seman expressed confidence that Putrajaya was "smarter than CNN" and "did not think everything is nonsense".
He also questioned how CNN managed to record the World Trade Center tower collapse within several seconds after the planes flew into them.
"In a poll prior to the United States elections in 2006, one in three Americans believed the tragedy had been planned by former President George W. Bush and senior CIA leaders," he added.
Describing the news network as as Washington's psychological weapon to achieve its agenda of world domination, the paper asked:
"Just ask yourself, how did the CNN cameramen get shots from various angles as the aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center?
"The attack occurred in seconds but CNN still managed to record the incident from various angles. Wow,  that is extraordinary.
"The question that should be asked is were the CNN cameramen already on standby around the World Trade Center?"
"If yes, how did they know that the attack was imminent?" Ku Seman asked.
Both towers of the World Trade Center collapsed about an hour after two passenger jets hit into them during the morning rush hour.
The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 am, followed by the North Tower about half-an-hour later. – April 6, 2014.