Mansoor Ijaz: Bin Laden in Iran

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[Dog]

Mansoor Ijaz just reported Bin Laden is in Iran as of July.

[chemicalman]

Maybe he's working in our senate?

[republicanwizard]

Why is Brit so glum lately?

[republicanwizard]

For a man who has been a bureaucrat his whole life, those links are very nice.

[Stultis]

Bin Lasen is on Iran's western border.

Go get 'em. Now.

[Mr. Mojo]

The ayatollahs are just begging for a US attack. I wonder if they think it is the only way they can keep power.

That's a good point. Left the way things currently are going, the ayatollahs are bound to fall within a year or two. But perhaps they think that if they can somehow provoke us enough to get us to engage them militarily (and possibly stretch our forces too thin), that would throw a measure of unpredictability into the situation that would be favorable to them. .....banking on a regional "holy" war. Either way they must know they're screwed, so why not provoke war and see what happens?

[colorado tanker]

Even if Saddam's role was limited to assistance and support activities for Al-Qaeda, as far as I'm concerned he's involved in 9-11.

I've had it with the mediots and their "experts" telling me what to think. Their credibility dried up after 9-11 when our troops got bogged down in the deep Afghan snows and chewed up by the crack Taliban guerillas, and then even worse our troops died by the tens of thousands in the bloody seige of Baghdad. Not.

[Moose4]

Either that, or the Iranian government will give up Omar and/or Osama to try and back Washington off a bit. Sort of the Islamic equivalent of "Yo, Guido, why don't me and youse go for a little ride..."

}:-)4

[Dog]

There are several factions in the Iranian gov fighting each other for power. I would guess someone in one of those factions is talking.

[RightWingMama]

Why is Brit so glum lately?

Maybe because Fox News is turning into tabloid TV.

[txhurl]

Our enemies keep making this mistake..

Axis of evil... they WERE warned, after all.

[PISANO]

I hope GW has the fortitude to start the ball rolling for a run up to giving IRAN an ultimatum. I realize we are talking BIG TIME decisions here BUT if that is where Bin Ladin is and WE KNOW IT FOR SURE, we have NO CHOICE IMHO.

[John H K]

I've had a little pet theory on the back-burner recently that it was actually Iran that sent the anthrax. Why? Well, we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and we never got hit. So the people that did it are the ones we are too afraid to hit.
Is this over simple thinking?

It's simply repackaging of the laughably silly old theory that Iraq was behind the anthrax and we won't say so because of blackmail; which really doesn't look too good considering we invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam.

Do you SERIOUSLY believe that Bush, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld et al. would genuinely not attack a country that they knew or suspected had sent the anthrax because they feared what that country would do to us?

[Mr. Mojo]

Yep, that's quite possible. The next few weeks should be interesting. But even if we back off completely (after excepting their "gifts"), they can't hide from the revolutionaries within their borders forever. The ayatollahs' days are numbered no matter how one slices it.

[Dog]

What if the the country we suspect of sending the anthrax....has nukes?

[Mr. Mojo]

excepting = accepting

[John H K]

I would guess someone in one of those factions is talking.

And not necessarily telling the truth, either. If you want the government overthrown/attacked in any given country, what better way to do it then claim the government is harboring Bin Laden?

[BurbankKarl]

was manzoor wearing a dress again?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

By all means. America should quiver and fear before such a threat, and WAIT forever, while Iran adds nuclear weapons to their biological weapons.

The plan of least resistance, that'll work! :)

[steveegg]

What if the the country we suspect of sending the anthrax....has nukes?

I don't know about President Bush, but I'd preempt them.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Because Clinton didn't invest in intelligence source creation-- moles and the like. It's too late to develop it to catch OBL.