[ScaniaBoy]

As bombshells go this is a real dud!

Ari Ben-Menashe has been around the block many many times and sold the same piece of garbage - check Seymour Hersch for instance. He used to use ABM as a source.

Nothing new here. If you want to believe it - well, fine by me.

[af_vet_1981]

Ari Ben-Menashe was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Israel as a teenager.

In November 1989, he was arrested in the United States for violating the Arms Export Control Act for trying to sell three Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft to Iran using false end-user certificates.[4][12][13] Ben-Menashe claimed that the Israeli government offered him a plea bargain.[14]

After realizing that Israel was not going to support him, Ben-Menashe began to give interviews to journalists from prison on matters including his role in the October Surprise and its links with the Iran–Contra affair.

Ben-Menashe testified in 1991 that he had personally witnessed George HW Bush attend a meeting with members of the Iranian government in Paris in October 1980, as part of a covert Republican Party operation to have the 52 U.S hostages held in Iran remain there until President Jimmy Carter, who was negotiating their release, had lost the 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan.