Russian Television to Broadcast Debate on 9/11 by International Experts


General Leonid Ivashov, Thierry Meyssan, Giulietto Chiesa Join Russian Experts for
Landmark Television Debate on 9/11

By Webster G. Tarpley

Washington DC, Sept. 9, 2008 – Thierry Meyssan reports from Moscow that he and other
leading international 9/11 truth experts have completed taping a television debate which
will be telecast on the first national program of Russian state television this coming
Friday, September 12. This no-holds barred, free-wheeling debate, featuring strongly
divergent opinions about what really happened on and about September 11, 2001, will be
shown in conjunction with the documentary film Zero, produced and directed by Chiesa
and Franco Fracassi of Telemaco Productions in Rome. Russians are thus about to
receive an unprecedented evening of 9/11 truth.

The telecast will go out in the middle of prime time. Among the participants, General
Leonid Ivashov was the commander of the Russian armed forces on September 11, 2001,
and has been a leading critic of the US official version. A leading strategic thinker for his
country, Ivashov is currently a fellow of the Strategic Culture Foundation (fondsk.ru) in
Moscow. Giulietto Chiesa is a member of the European Parliament in Brussels,
representing the region around Asti in northwest Italy. Chiesa has been the leading
spokesman for 9/11 truth issues in the European Parliament, and has been the prime
mover behind the documentary film Zero, as well as the collection of essays by the same
name which has also attracted much attention in Italy since being published in the late
summer of 2007. Thierry Meyssan, the founder and leader of the Voltaire Network in
Paris, was one of the first critics of the US official story about 9/11. He is the author of
several books, including 9/11: The Big Lie, and Pentagate. He also organized the Axis
for Peace conference in Brussels in November 2005.

Among almost a dozen Russian participants in the debate that will be televised Friday
evening in Moscow, one of the most compelling speakers was a Russian cosmonaut who
observed the 9/11 events from his post on the International Space Station in earth orbit.
This cosmonaut recounts in the telecast that, as he watched the immense plume of smoke
spread from New York out over the Atlantic, he took a large number of photos and films
which were sent automatically to both Houston and Moscow. “We have been studying
these images very, very, carefully,” commented the cosmonaut pointedly, “and we have
seen some highly interesting things.”


The host for the debate stressed that this landmark telecast did not imply that the Kremlin
administration of President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin was officially espousing
any particular point of view concerning 9/11, but rather reflected a commitment to free
and open debate. Nevertheless, observers in the Russian capital sense a far-reaching
change of mood by the Russian government in the wake of the August 7-8 genocidal
attack on South Ossetia by the Georgian dictator and US satellite Saakashvili. The
Russians, according to this view, are through with doing favors for the US, especially in
regard to Washington’s official myths about 9/11 and the war on terror, and this telecast
will deliver that message in a clear and unmistakable way.


Webster G. Tarpley is the author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA. His current
book is Obama – The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate. These
are available on amazon.com. His next book, entitled Barack H. Obama: The
Unauthorized Biography, will be available on lulu.com starting September 10.

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