Posted on 07/01/2005 12:52:09 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And as far as I am concered, does it really matter? Wether he is or is not who the hostages say he is, he is still an enemy of America. Period.
I think your photo has the wrong head circled. I think the Iranian president is supposed to be the guy to the right of the circled guy.
fyi
No evidence yet Iran leader involved in 1979 siege
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No evidence yet Iran leader involved in 1979 siege
Fri Jul 1, 2005 3:00 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday it has unearthed no evidence so far to support assertions by former American captives that Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the 1979 siege of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Several Americans who were held have said they recognized the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad as a ringleader. But two Iranians who were leading figures in the storming of the embassy said he did not take part.
"We continue to look into it to establish the facts," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.
Asked if the United States was aware of the allegations before the hostages went public, McClellan noted that President Bush had said on Thursday "that he didn't have any information."
Involvement by the new Iranian leader in the 1979-1981 hostage crisis would send a chill through the U.S. government, which has not resumed diplomatic relations with Iran. Fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days.
Ahmadinejad was a founding member of the Office to Foster Unity that planned the seizure.
In Tehran, two members of that group who declined to be named told Reuters that Ahmadinejad did not participate in the siege.
"He believed that we would have to do the same with the Russian Embassy if we stormed the American one, and was against both," said one of the two student leaders. "But he supported the move after it was carried out."
Two other leading members who engineered the siege, Abbad Abdi and Mohsen Mirdamadi, have also denied the reports.
A CIA spokesman said the spy agency was one of several government agencies looking into Ahmadinejad's role in the 1979 revolution. He declined further comment.
The White House spokesman said he could not speak for what information the entire U.S. government might have.
"We're going back and looking at whatever information we have and trying to establish all the facts," McClellan said.
A U.S. official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly, said the U.S. government does have lists identifying Iranians who took part in the hostage crisis but "in some cases, names may not have been known."
The 48-year-old hard-line Tehran mayor was elected president in a landslide a week ago and takes over from reformist President Mohammed Khatami in August. At the time of the hostage-taking Ahmadinejad was a 23-year-old student at the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran.
Also on Friday, another former hostage, Barry Rosen, told Reuters he never had any contact with Ahmadinejad but believed that if another hostage, former Col. David Roeder, thought it was him, "then I believe him 100 percent."
Rosen was a U.S. Embassy press attache in Tehran when student militants stormed the compound. In 1998, Rosen met with one of his captors, Abbas Abdi, in a gesture of reconciliation.
"I can only say from my own point of view, I never did see him so I don't know that is the individual standing next to one of my colleagues," Rosen said.
"I feel that if Dave says it's so then it's so," he added. (Additional reporting by Caren Bohan and David Morgan in Washington and Amir Paivar from Tehran)
"I think your photo has the wrong head circled. I think the Iranian president is supposed to be the guy to the right of the circled guy."
They all look like hellfire missile targets to me.
Ernest et al have fingered the guy on the far right. It's the press spreading the disinfo. Makes you wonder why. Btw, I read on another thread that one of the hostages pointed out the guy on the far right too.
LOL! They are looking at the wrong guy too.
There was a lot of debate about that on several threads last night, which is why I posted this article.
The keyword AHMADINEJAD
will get you to the ones I know about...
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This would seem to verify that the original photo certainly had the wrong guy circled....but they are saying the guy on the right was someone other than the new President.....have we got a Psyc Op going on by the Iranian Mullahs?
It's looking like BOTH sides want this to go away.
I understand how the Iranians want to make it go away, but c'mon. The CIA HAS to know that's the same guy.
I could tell with the naked eye.
It's like they're trying to tell me the sky isn't blue when I'm looking right at it.
I read somewhere on FR last night that Iran was careful to say that the new Pres had nothing to do with storming the Embassy or guarding the "prisoners". Notice the omissions. The hostages stated he was not a guard.
I don't think it's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. However, I'm not sure where John Kerry was around this time. Hmmmmmm.
Geez, why doesn't someone just check out the guy's high school yearbook? Maybe there's a younger photo of him with his arm around his prom date or something. This is the only logical conclusion.
Who's the guy with the rag over his head? Is that Jimmah Cattor?
Sorry, bad taste, but I couldn't help myself.
It's amazing the fashion toll the 70s exacted, even in furthest Persia.
How convenient.
Before they died, did they have names? Families? Any means to confirm the existence and identity of the slimeballs, whatever their names?
This may come as a shock to you, but 7th century cultures don't have high school yearbooks or proms.
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