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'9/11 attacks made up, ' says French best actress Oscar-winner
By PETER ALLEN - Last updated at 22:24pm on 1st March 2008



Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks.

The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website.

"I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends.

Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, Cotillard said:

"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."

She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.

She said: "It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."

Cotillard's stardom and increased earning power looked assured following her Oscar win.

But after her outburst, in which she also queried the 1969 Moon landings, a successful future in Hollywood appears to be in jeopardy.

She said: "Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure."

Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments on Paris Première - Paris Dernière, a programme broadcast a year ago.

At the time her remarks were largely ignored, but their appearance yesterday on the French magazine website Marianne2 comes at a time when Cotillard's profile is sky-high.

She is shortly due to fly to Chicago to star alongside Johnny Depp in Public Enemies, a gangster movie expected to be her first big money-spinner.

Cotillard's film career began in Luc Besson's 1998 film Taxi - a huge hit in France but less so around the world.

She is slowly becoming a household name in France, in a list most recently topped by her close friend Audrey Tautou and previously by women such as Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot.

But Cotillard, who lives with actor and director Guillaume Canet, frequently tells interviewers she has no interest in money or prestige.

Denying that she had any kind of "Anglo-Saxon ambition", she said she prefers to "choose roles which suit me".

Despite her low-key image, Cotillard is an environmental activist who once worked as a spokesman for Greenpeace.

News of her anti-Americanism comes as Franco-American relations appear to be thawing, following Paris's refusal to show support for the invasion of Iraq.

President Nicolas Sarkozy insists he is pro-American, even supporting so-called "Anglo-Saxon" economic reforms.

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Jonesy

Anti-Americanism, eh? One hell of a stretch. Why spread such false nonsense, when it is clear she is only against a few things, which happen to originate from America?

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I wish other celebrities were as fearless as her. Her career should not be in jeopardy just because she spoke out. Good for her!

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Jonesy

Society is completely screwed up. Human brains are screwed by society, and religion. They say society is order, law is order, nature is chaos... yet, there is no war in nature. Animals are healthier than humans. The only things they're not better at are poor-reasoned killing, growing to a shriveled, useless age out of foolish fear, wasting whole lives on materialistic nonsense (and other silly trivialities), being completely screwed up in the brain, and walking the path to extinction (war).

I must say, Israel loves to walk this path of extinction. Their religion really fucked them over. They're so stupid, they always blame their choice of extinction on others. What kind of idiot doesn't know... mass-death (war) is the only way to extinction a species.

The United States isn't far behind in stupidity. Probably why we're allies. Hopefully we can pay our karmic debt in something other than lives.

anhailla

sounds like she should stick to acting...her comprehension of structual engineering will not pay her bills

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Ptech

Goodness gracious! Two beautiful women. Sharon Stone has always been awesome, and the years have done her good.

Cotillard is guilty only of having an open mind and more common sense than the average american. Less gullibility, however one cares to put it.

How impressive--our resident structural steel expert is on hand.

Ain't those women beautiful!!!

Duvidoo

How is it anti-American to question the official story of 9/11? There are a heckuva lot of Americans who question it, are THEY anti-Americans? She makes a good point about the rapidity with which the WTC towers came down (and it sounds like she hasn't even heard about the third tower yet).

Duvidoo

Alas we can't all have your superior grade comprehension of structural engineering. You really have no problem with the way those towers collapsed like they were made of cardboard? Wow!

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Desperate Smear Campaign Follows Actress' 9/11 Comments



International establishment media recycles year-old comments to attack Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard, despite the fact that she is merely echoing a plethora of other highly respected public figures in questioning 9/11

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Sunday, March 2, 2008


Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard's comments regarding her doubts about the official 9/11 story have already provoked an international media smear campaign despite the fact that she is merely echoing a plethora of other highly respected public figures in questioning the establishment position.

During a French television interview, Cotillard said the public had been lied to about the terror attacks and highlighted the bizarre collapse of the twin towers in comparison with other buildings, specifically Madrid's Windsor Building, which burned intensely for over 24 hours yet did not implode like the WTC.

"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed," said Cotillard.

Hours after the comments were picked up by news outlets across the world, a reactionary media smear campaign was initiated, despite the fact that Cotillard actually made the statements over a year ago, and we were told that Cotillard's future Hollywood success was apparently "in jeopardy".

Quite how expressing an opinion that matches with hundreds of other professors, scientists, former presidents, high government officials and intelligence veterans puts someone's career "in jeopardy" is not explained in the myriad of ad hominem hit pieces that have already surfaced over the course of today.

The Parliament of Japan, the former President of Italy, widely-respected CIA veteran Robert Baer and even American music icon Willie Nelson have all questioned 9/11 in recent months.

Since the attacks, a top former member of Tony Blair's cabinet, Germany's Secretary of Defense and the founder of Reagonomics have all slammed the official story - along with a cacophony of former government, military, intelligence and political professionals.

The Hollywood Today website cites the comments of 9/11 first responder "Mike Lennon" who calls the comments “ignorant and despicable” and encourages people to picket Cotillard's upcoming movie with Johnny Depp.

To assert that questioning the official 9/11 story is harmful to the victims is a tired old propaganda ruse that has been tried on many occasions in the past by establishment media hacks.

The fact is that the majority of victim's family members doubt the official story and have been pushing for a new investigation for years - as attested to by Bill Doyle, head of the largest victim's family support group.

In addition, 9/11 firemen and first responders were themselves the victims of an admitted government cover-up in the very hours after 9/11 when they were told that the toxic asbestos-laden air was safe to breathe - an official lie that has cost the heroes of 9/11 at best lifelong debilitating illnesses and at worst their lives.

The media's attempt to make an example out of Cotillard by digging up year-old comments in an organized smear attack campaign smacks of total desperation as the gatekeepers try to act as the little Dutch boy and block up the holes of the gaping official 9/11 story.

Watch this space tomorrow for an extended report.

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Hundreds of military, political, and intelligence professionals question 9/11

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