Editor’s Note: For a discussion about the links between cigarette smugglers and the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and who murdered yeshiva student Ari Halberstam, see NY Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s remarks here.
From: National Post
Tory MP tells committee that illegal tobacco sales financed 1993 World Trade Center attack
Diane Finley was arguing against a government bill that would implement plain packaging for cigarettes. A Liberal MP called Finley’s claim ‘absolutely absurd’
OTTAWA — Former Conservative cabinet minister Diane Finley told a parliamentary committee this week she believes contraband tobacco sales financed “the blowing up of the Twin Towers,” as she argued against a government bill that would implement plain packaging for cigarettes.
Though Finley clarified to the National Post Friday that she was referring to the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, not the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a leading terrorism researcher characterized it as a “conspiracy theory.”
