Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Iran and Al Qaeda sitting in a....
Laura Rozen has the scoop:
So drip by drip, the Iran-Al Qaeda links are coming out. We've long known Iran has assited terrorists-not just Hizbollah and Hamas, but Al Qaeda in the Khobar Towers bombing, now they are close to building nukes. We pretty much have a reason to preemptively attack Iran, because they've pretty much been at war with us, yet we attacked Iraq. Now, with our military bogged down in Iraq, how can we take on Iran-our real enemy?
Debka has their theory of a Saudi-Iran-Syria plot...
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Commission sources acknowledge they have been unable to resolve key questions about what precisely the 9/11 plotters did while they transited through Iran and, in particular, whether they were receiving active assistance from Iranian security officials, who appear to have maintained relations with Al Qaeda. But investigators say there is mounting evidence about Al Qaeda-Iranian relationships that appear to have been overlooked by a Bush administration that was far more focused on finding connections between bin Laden’s organization and the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Indeed, during the trial of another alleged Hamburg cell member, Abdelghani Mzoudi, prosecutors produced a last-minute witness, Hamid Reza Zakeri, who said he was a former officer of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Zakeri testified there was a meeting at an airbase near Tehran on May 4, 2001, between top Iranian leaders—including supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani—and one of Osama bin Laden's elder sons, Saad, at which plans for 9/11 were discussed.
Zakeri also reportedly claimed he had earlier helped arrange security for a January 2001 meeting between Saad bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's principal deputy. He also claimed that he met with a CIA officer at the U.S. Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, in July 2001 and passed on a warning to the United States about the forthcoming 9/11 attacks.
So drip by drip, the Iran-Al Qaeda links are coming out. We've long known Iran has assited terrorists-not just Hizbollah and Hamas, but Al Qaeda in the Khobar Towers bombing, now they are close to building nukes. We pretty much have a reason to preemptively attack Iran, because they've pretty much been at war with us, yet we attacked Iraq. Now, with our military bogged down in Iraq, how can we take on Iran-our real enemy?
Debka has their theory of a Saudi-Iran-Syria plot...
