MI6 enters the Labour leadership debate with vintage "Red Smear" piece in the Torygraph

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Corbyn's conspiracy theory: 9/11 attacks were 'manipulated' to make it look like Osama Bin Laden was responsible, says Labour leader

• Labour leader claimed Tony Blair and George W Bush used it to go to war
  
• Wrote articles appearing to endorse 'New World Order' conspiracy theory
  
• It comes as MPs expected to publicly state party is unelectable under him
  

By KATE PICKLES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:27, 26 September 2015 | UPDATED: 12:40, 26 September 2015

Jeremy Corbyn claimed the 9/11 attacks were 'manipulated' by the West so it could go to war in Afghanistan in an article he wrote 12 years ago, it has emerged today.
The Labour leader made the assertions in a number of written pieces where he criticised Tony Blair and George W Bush for using the September 11 attacks in New York to go to war.
He claims Osama bin Laden was made to look responsible to facilitate their aims and seemed to endorse conspiracy theories about a 'New World Order'.

In the 2003 piece for The Morning Star, he wrote: 'Historians will study with interest the news manipulation of the past 18 months, The Telegraph reports.
'After September 11, the claims that bin Laden and al-Qaida had committed the atrocity were quickly and loudly made.
'This was turned into an attack on the Taliban and then, subtly, into regime change in Afghanistan.'
Prior to that, he wrote a series of articles which appear to have endorsed the conspiracy theory about the 'New World Order'.

The revelations come ahead of Mr Corbyn's first Labour conference as leader where a number of MPs are expected to state the party is unelectable under him.
Labour grandee Lord Mandelson has already warned MPs against making an early move to oust Jeremy Corbyn - but insisted the party could not win with the 66-year-old 'loser' in charge.
The former business secretary said the party had 'stuck two fingers up' at the country by choosing Mr Corbyn as leader but, in a leaked memo, he said Mr Corbyn couldn't be replaced until he had shown how unpopular he is at the polls.

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