In its
reporting on a dubious lawsuit alleging Iranian meta-involvement in
9/11, the New York Times badly misunderstood the case and maintained
for more than three years, in the paper of record, that the
government of Iran “sponsored” the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The belated correction, issued late Wednesday night on two widely
spaced articles on the topic, unceremoniously noted that Iran did
not, in fact, help commit the 9/11 attacks.
[...]
Late
Wednesday night (6/29/17, correction updated 7/5/17), the Times
quietly added this correction to the piece:
Correction:
July 6, 2017 An article on Friday about a jury’s decision to let
the federal government seize a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper it says
is controlled by Iran overstated Iran’s responsibility for the
September 11 attacks. While a federal court found that Iran had some
culpability for the September 11 attacks as a state sponsor of
terrorism, it has not been established that Iran sponsored the
attacks, which were planned and executed by Al Qaeda. (A similar
error occurred in a September 25, 2013, article in the Times.)
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