George Galloway: al-Qaeda is UK-US’ creation … We made them

George Galloway says that al-Qaeda operatives were trained in Fort William and were armed by us.

George Galloway has affirmed that British and American troops trained al-Qaeda terrorists, in Fort William.

Yesterday, Galloway insisted the 9/11 attacks were “clearly a conspiracy” and that “al-Qaeda are a creation of ours”.

He said: “I’m not in any doubt that a group of al-Qaeda operatives entered the US from Germany, enrolled in flying schools, learned how to fly planes, boarded planes, seized control of them and flew themselves into the twin towers.

The reason they did it is an open question and, for that, we need to go back to the 1980s.

Al-Qaeda and their forefathers and the Taliban are all inventions of the US and Britain.

Al-Qaeda were only ever in Afghanistan because we helped to send them there.

We armed them, financed them, called them heroes and freedom fighters.

We trained them in Fort William… at the Special Forces military training schools there and in other places.

We gave to these jihadists in Afghanistan fighting the Red Army in the 1980s the entire wherewithal that they are now using against British and American soldiers in Afghanistan.

I don’t doubt who carried 9/11 out.

It was al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda are a creation of ours; a creation that we made on the principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend.

Not only did we create these people in the first place but we have reached for them as a weapon of choice to deploy against our enemies.