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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Controversial professor Ward Churchill says the United States is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, because of its support for Israel and the sanctions against Iraq.

According to the New York Sun, Churchill, an ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado, gave a two-hour speech at New York City's New School on Monday night. In the speech, titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans," Churchill said America essentially was asking for the 9/11 attacks because of a historical pattern of mass murder.

Churchill gained national infamy after the 9/11 attacks by writing that many victims of the carnage were "little Eichmanns" -- a reference to Nazi Adolf Eichmann -- because they worked for an evil nation.

University of Colorado officials have tried to fire Churchill, but they have been unable to because he is a tenured professor exercising free-speech rights.

Churchill was at the school at the request of a student group, and was not invited by the university.