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Iran-Contra figure re-emerges as middleman for Iraq information to U.S. government
AP via SFGate ^ | October 15, 2003 | PETE YOST

Posted on 10/15/2003 5:53:13 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A central figure in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s has passed allegations to the Bush administration that $150 million in enriched uranium was smuggled from Iraq into Iran five years ago and some may remain hidden in Iraq.

The information was relayed to the administration through a conservative author, Michael Ledeen. And Ledeen is now accusing the CIA of failing to aggressively check the allegation because of a long-held distrust of Manucher Ghorbanifar, a middleman in the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra swap of arms for hostages.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; cia; ghorbanifar; iran; irancontra; iraq; ledeen; michaelledeen; smuggling; uranium; wh

1 posted on 10/15/2003 5:53:14 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
WMD? It is not about that again is it?
2 posted on 10/15/2003 6:18:41 PM PDT by Lysander (My army can kill your army)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Well, if they sent a grandstanding, self-serving idiot like Wilson to "confirm" it, Ladeen's allegation is partly true. However, the Brits stand by their second source of information.
3 posted on 10/15/2003 6:19:19 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Lysander
It has always been about resolution 1441.
4 posted on 10/15/2003 6:20:07 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
I must add that

A: the Iran connection and possible subversive tactic is not surprising. Very few people understand the depth of persimony the people of the land which brought us the game of chess are capable of, and

B: uranium suspicions are NOT the only reason we went INTO Iraq. The Bioweapons LABS have been found, along with one vial of a bioweapons precourser strang enough to kill millions of people, just from that one little vial. Also some other stuff relating to bioweapons.

5 posted on 10/15/2003 6:33:20 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: cake_crumb
I agree with you.

And as always, Hussein didn't comply with 1441.

If he had, then the entire world would be different, today.
6 posted on 10/15/2003 6:34:43 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
"And as always, Hussein didn't comply with 1441.

If he had, then the entire world would be different, today"

Well said. The Kay report proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Let's face it, he didn't comply with ANY UN resolution. Not even the last chance or the last LAST chance etc.

7 posted on 10/15/2003 7:08:04 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Ghorbanifar (from "Middle -Earth?) seems to be one lucky con-man to stay alive. Especially so after failing to control his autonomic responses when under polygraph and walking away twice without apprehension.

My guess is that if these people are pale, shaky and nauseous then the Shiites have effectively hampered the opium trade.
8 posted on 10/15/2003 7:43:40 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Never trust a Democrat near your income. You never stop paying for it.)
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