Posted on 07/13/2010 12:01:04 PM PDT by La Lydia
A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran claims was abducted by the U.S., has taken refuge at a Pakistani embassy office in Washington and is planning to return to his homeland, the State Department said Tuesday. It was the latest development in a murky case that has been shrouded in mystery since the scientist, Shahram Amiri, disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June 2009.
"He has been in the United States of his own free will and obviously he is free to go," department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "In fact, he was scheduled to travel to Iran yesterday but was unable to make all of the necessary arrangements to reach Iran through transit countries."
Crowley said Amiri was at the Pakistani embassy. "He traveled there on his own," he added, but would not elaborate. Other officials said Amiri arrived there Monday evening.
Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, told reporters at a news conference in Madrid that Amiri was found after having been kidnapped during the Hajj and taken to the U.S. against his will. He demanded that Amiri be allowed to return home "without any obstacle."...
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Maybe he wanted to make a deal, information for money and refuge, and didn’t get the deal he wanted. Like Saddam’s sons-in-laws.
That still doesn’t tell me how he got here.
And how did that work out for Saddam’s sons-in-law?
The Iranians have already calculated his neck size and drop weight. SNAP!! Sorry about your neck, Sir. We’ll give you an extra prayer and a cookie on your grave.
I wonder if anyone checked him and his possessions with a Geiger counter?
Double agent? Provocation? Homesick defector? It happens. Vitaly Yurchenko defected and redefected for reasons that are still obscure. Maybe Amiri is telling the truth, and we kidnapped him then turned him lose and made him pay for his own airfare home. Maybe he’s simply insane.
This case is so murky I doubt that we will ever have any answers - and I also believe that this is how it was planned to be - murky & heavy with plausible deniability for all.
However, the idea of an insane Iranian Nuclear scientist truly disturbs me... no sarcasm at all
I must not have made my point clearly, excuse me. What I was trying to emphasize is that there are holes in this story that the reporter didn’t ask, or answer, like how he got here. That is the OBVIOUS QUESTION. You and I can make the kinds of guesses and assumptions that you have posted, but that doesn’t let the media off the hook for lazy, shoddy reporting.
Touche`
I have the sneaking suspicion that the media does not ask questions like that to a socialist or democrat.
Or was our current administration stupid enough to grab this guy without a solid, legal justification for doing so and then just hope that they could entice or blackmail him into defecting after the fact?
It sure sounds like this was mishandled by our government in some way, but it's hard to know for sure.
Or ours.
If it was a near-defection, he was brought here. Apparently he didn’t have the information they wanted, or didn’t want to give up the information they wanted, or he wanted too much for the information he had. So he is left standing on a streetcorner with no ticket home.
Or maybe the hand of O is in there somewhere, and the guy was betrayed and, again, left standing on a streetcorner with no ticket home. Has no choice but to assure his pals back home that, no guys, I wasn’t selling you out, really I wasn’t. I was kidnapped; thats the ticket. Kidnapped.
Do you suppose they’ll buy it? I wonder how much is life is worth when he gets home.
My point was: the reporter bought it.
You win the Kewpie doll... he was executed by hanging on August 3, 2016.
Or maybe the alert not long before this Iranian scientist ends up in the Pakistani embassy - which hosts the Iranian interest section- about a gaggle of Afghanis missing from Lackland AFB in Texas’ “Defense Language Institute” wasn’t really about Afghanis so much as Pakistanis ....and maybe they were sent here by the ISI under cover as Afghans. What if they were ISI or even IRGC sent to capture the scientist and drag him back to Iran?
Sounds wild until you recall the Democrats have hosted Pakistani ITs in congress since 2004...and a lily white female US translator specializing in Farsi, etc., “goes native” sending adoring social media notes to Iran’s leadership. Doesn’t seem like there is much serious security these days.
Wow. I had completely forgotten about this. I see from your post 15 he was killed.
You may be entirely right about the missing afghanis being ISI doing a favor for Tehran.
I still think I see a connection between Obama, and the apparent betrayal of the scientist, and his apparent kidnapping, and the IT guys porting absolutely everything to offshore servers while claiming “Russian” hacking. I can’t quite make sense out of it all but it smells really bad. I do believe Obama was trying to do a favor for Tehran that would convince them of his good intentions, so maybe this was the favor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2927244/posts?page=49#49
OK, I see. So, maybe it was theater to give him cover so he could go home? And the email dump messed it up?
Yep, that guy is dead meat after they torture him a while.
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