The US journalist says his forthcoming documentary series on the 9/11 attacks will explore overlooked truths

Israeli intelligence knew beforehand of the 9/11, American journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed. The topic, as well as other long-buried facts, will be explored in his upcoming documentary series on the attacks.

Carlson made the remarks on Tuesday when he appeared on Piers Morgan's Uncensored News. The journalist pointed out the Israeli leadership never actually hid its attitude to the attack and believed they had a positive impact on the US-Israel ties.

"Of course I didn't allege that the Jews did it. I don't even know what that means. I think, in fact, saying things like that is a way to discredit real questions," Carlson said.

"Benjamin Netanyahu on camera, right after [the attacks] he said it was a good thing because it brings the United States into a conflict that we've been involved in on an existential level for decades," he added.

Carlson apparently referred to the remarks Netanyahu made back in 2002 during the US House hearings, when he said that the democracies "sometimes have to be bombed into going to war" and likened the 9/11 events to the Pearl Harbor attack.

The journalist also invoked the "Israeli art students" affair, stating that the public knowledge about it has been very limited, with reports on it ultimately vanishing.

"We know that a group of 'Israeli art students' - who clearly were not art students, clearly some of them were aligned with the Israeli intelligence - were arrested and held for quite some time in the US before being released without charges. And we know that a group of them - I'm quoting an FBI document, not the Internet - filmed the attacks on 9/11, and... 'seemed to have foreknowledge' of those attacks," Carlson stated.

The first sightings of "Israeli art students" date back to late 2000, when they began to show up at US federal law enforcement and military agencies' buildings, trying to peddle artworks and socialize with agents. The "students" repeatedly appeared at unmarked locations and hidden side entrances and even visited some agents at their homes.

According to media reports of the time, at least 140 Israeli nationals engaged in such activities were arrested between early 2001 and the 9/11 attacks, while a further 60 were detained shortly after. Moreover, some groups of the "students" reportedly rented properties in close vicinity to residencies of the 9/11 attacks perpetrators.

(RT.com)