Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president, has called al-Qaeda a “myth” and described any link between Afghanistan and the 9/11 terror attacks a western conspiracy.(…)
Asked whether he believed the attacks had been planned from the country he would go on to rule, he said: „That is what I have heard from our Western friends. That‘s what the Western media says. There is no doubt that an operation, a terrorist operation was conducted in New York and in Washington.“