A senior Utusan Malaysia official today asserted that the CIA had a hand in "planning" the 9-11 attacks and thus is was possible that the agency could be linked to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

 

According to Utusan assistant editor Ku Seman Ku Hussain's article in Mingguan Malaysia today, Malaysia's diplomatic and economic ties with China were the envy of certain foreign powers and implied that MH370's disappearance was an effort to put strain on the relationship of the two countries.

 

"Let's think out of the box... about the worst tragedy for our country and international aviation history. Does it not make sense if this tragedy was planned by some quarters to affect our relationship with China?

 

"If the attacks on the World Trade Towers in New York on Sep 11, 2001 were planned by the CIA, is it impossible for this incident to be linked to the CIA as well?" he wrote.

 

To back up his claims about CIA involvement in 9-11, the author claimed "many" people have accepted that 9-11 was planned to provide the US with a "ticket" to attack Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

He also claimed that CNN was able to get multiple shots of the planes colliding with the World Trade Centre, implying that they were tipped off by the CIA.

 

"The attack happened in seconds but CNN managed to record it from various angles. Wow! How extraordinary.

 

"The question is, why were CNN cameramen stationed around the building? If that was the case, how did they know that the attack will happen?" wrote the author.

 

Our authorities smarter than CIA

 

He added that the CIA had also claimed that al Qaeda and Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, but no proof of this has ever surfaced.

 

Ku Seman cites the book ‘Conspiracies, Conspiracy, Theories and the Secrets of 9/11’ by German writer Mathias Bröckers to further back his claims.

 

A particular chapter of intrigue for Ku Seman was Bröckers’ account of the CIA's alleged links with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ( right ), during the Soviet War in Afghanistan.

 

Ku Seman cites the book in an attempt to lend credence to the various theories which he cited in the article.

 

"It is proven that a lot of 'nonsense' claimed about 9-11 are actually facts. I believe the authorities don’t believe they are all nonsense.

 

"They are smarter than the CIA," said Ku Seman, to cap off his article.