Posted on 06/10/2007 5:17:05 AM PDT by Flavius
WASHINGTON - After revelations of a US administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the United States that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might use such an incident as a pretext to bomb Iran.
Brzezinski, the national security adviser to president Jimmy Carter from 1977 through 1980 and the most senior Democratic Party figure on national-security policy, told a private meeting sponsored by the non-partisan Committee for the Republic in
Washington on May 30 that an al-Qaeda terrorist attack in the US intended to provoke war between the United States and Iran was a possibility that must be taken seriously, and that the administration of President George W Bush might accuse Iran of responsibility for such an attack and use it to justify carrying out an attack on Iran.
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Brzezinski and Carter CREATED the Iranian terrorists.
Like parents, they want to PROTECT their Iranian terrorists.
Mega dittos!
This should tell everyone that the Dems cannot be trusted with foreign policy.
So, if Iran plans attacks on us daily, we’re supposed to just take it! Great strategy!
Since when killing our soldiers is only a “pretext”?
So ZB is doing Iran’s dirty work. Let’s see, if we get nuked, the rest of the world will A.— dance in the streets and say we deserved it. B.— demand that we disarm and apologize, and pay Iran/NK/Whomever reparations, plus rebuild the third world and provide jobs/healthcare/everything for anyone breathing. Not going to happen.
Um, al-Qaeda and Iran are pretty much mortal enemies...
As for al-Qaeda and Iran being mortal enemies, times change and there’s that old saying, ‘the enemy of my enemy is my best friend’.
” Um, al-Qaeda and Iran are pretty much mortal enemies... “
Myth......
(Mostly promulgated by the ‘no real threat’ crowd...)
Ping.
So any victory by al-Qaeda in Iraq or anywhere else is disturbing and upsetting to Iran? I think not. What I do think is that many of these ex-CIA agents who line up to discredit the current Administration are living in the past. After all, many of these same folk got many, many things dead wrong over the past 20 years.
ping
Well mabey they could root for our side , once in a while
The Iranians are arming EVERYONE in the area.
Both Sunni and Shiite in Iraq, Sadr’s boys, and the remnants of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
We’ve intercepted the same exact materials (including those AP IED’s) being transported by the Quds forces at least a dozen times. The most recent was just a few days ago, caught them RED HANDED sending stuff into Afghanistan.
I swear... some people don’t seem to ‘get’ the concept of a proxy war, and what aspects would make a good ‘proxy’ (hint: something about this asinine dogma out there that “they’d NEVER work together” is part of it)
Umm, DB dude, is the Google on you computer broken?
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/22/alqaeda.iran/
Iran admits holding al Qaeda operatives
Sunday, May 25, 2003 Posted: 10:50 AM EDT (1450 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iranian officials Thursday told a U.N. representative that Iran has several unnamed al Qaeda operatives in custody, CNN has learned.
The acknowledgment comes as Washington has intensified its accusations that al Qaeda terrorists are inside Iran — something Tehran had previously denied.
.....”We know al Qaeda individuals are inside Iran,” this official said. “But what is the definition of custody? If they are in Iran, free to plan and direct attacks, such as the Saudi bombings, and are able to receive visitors and updates and other information, that is not custody. That is safe haven.”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/14/wiran214.xml
Iran has always maintained close relations with al-Qa’eda, even though the Shia Muslim state is known to have many ideological and strategic differences with the terror group’s Sunni leadership.
Western intelligence officials now believe that Iran is trying to cultivate a new generation of al-Qa’eda leaders who will be prepared to work closely with Teheran when they eventually take control
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,664967,00.html
9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran
Friday, Jul. 16, 2004 By ADAM ZAGORIN AND JOE KLEIN Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints Next week’s much anticipated final report by a bipartisan commission on the origins of the 9/11 attacks will contain new evidence of contacts between al-Qaeda and Iran—just weeks after the Administration has come under fire for overstating its claims of contacts between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
A senior U.S. official told TIME that the Commission has uncovered evidence suggesting that between eight and ten of the 14 “muscle” hijackers—that is, those involved in gaining control of the four 9/11 aircraft and subduing the crew and passengers—passed through Iran in the period from October 2000 to February 2001. Sources also tell TIME that Commission investigators found that Iran had a history of allowing al-Qaeda members to enter and exit Iran across the Afghan border. This practice dated back to October 2000, with Iranian officials issuing specific instructions to their border guards—in some cases not to put stamps in the passports of al-Qaeda personnel—and otherwise not harass them and to facilitate their travel across the frontier. The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks
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Al-Qaida finds safe haven in Iran
But former leaders reportedly under house arrest
Suleiman Abu Ghaith, once a spokesman for bin Laden, is believed to be living Iran. Gaith and other former al-Qaida leaders, fled to Iran after the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan in the fall of 2001.
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By Robert Windrem
Investigative producer
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Updated: 7:13 p.m. CT June 24, 2005
Robert Windrem
Investigative producer
Al-Qaida finds safe haven in Iran
But former leaders reportedly under house arrest
Somewhere north of Tehran, living perhaps in villas near the town of Chalous on the Caspian Sea coast, are between 20 and 25 of al-Qaida’s former leaders, along with two of Osama bin Laden’s sons.
Men such as Saif al-Adel, the former military commander of al-Qaida, and Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the bespectacled bin Laden spokesman, are not in hiding but rather in the care — or custody — of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
“They are under virtual house arrest,” not able to do much of anything, said one senior U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
How they got there and what will happen to them is one of the more intriguing stories of the war on terror, one that is filled with secret movements, stolen communications and a failed attempt at a prisoner exchange involving Iranian dissidents.
Shiite and Sunni groups usually hate each other. But Iran and Al Qaeda are working together based on the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” principle.
Basically they hate Americans and Jews far more than they hate each other. It is a temporary arrangement as violent muslims are bound to start killing each other at some point.
I say we go straight to the source - Bomb Bomb Bomb- Bomb Bomb Iran.
As angry as I am with President Bush these days... catah... well President Bush just does not come close to the inept and anti-American traitor that is jimmah catah and anyone that served in his horrid administration.
zbiggy has always been a commie lovin’ muzzie hugger! As wrong as President Bush is on immigration and the “new tone”... NOT even close!
LLS
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