CHAVEZ, Hugo. Venezuelan leader re 9-11: "The hypothesis that is gaining strength ... is that it was the same U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack"

Hugo Chavez (late president of Venezuela) on US involvement in 9-11 (2013): ‘The [explosive demolition] hypothesis is not absurd ... that those towers could have been dynamited. A building never collapses like that, unless it’s with an implosion. The hypothesis that is gaining strength ... is that it was the same U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack or act against its own people and against citizens of all over the world. Why? To justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed on Afghanistan, on Iraq” (Associated Press, “Chavez says U.S. may have orchestrated 9-11”, NBC News: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13401534/ns/world_news-americas/t/chavez-says-us-may-have-orchestrated/#.V7jiLzUre70 ).