Posted on 07/15/2005 8:39:55 PM PDT by Wiz
Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 – One of Iran’s most powerful clerics hinted during the Friday prayers sermon in Tehran today that last week’s London bombings could have been the work of the United Kingdom government.
Addressing worshippers at the site of Tehran University, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardian Council, the unelected constitutional watchdog, said, “At times they blame this [London bombings] as the work of Al’Qaeda. Al’Qaeda means [United States President George W.] Bush and [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair who were the mothers of Al’Qaeda and brought to life this illegitimate child”.
“There exists the possibility that the British government carried out this work, like the possibility [of American involvement] in the September 11 affair, since they themselves stand to benefit the most”, Jannati said.
Jannati is a close confidant of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran’s newly-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is widely seen as Jannati’s protégé.
The July 7 multiple bombings in London’s underground railways and a city bus left at least 54 people dead and close to 1,000 people injured.
“The British government stood to gain the most from the London bombings, so that they could tell their people not to protest against their war on terrorism”, the senior ayatollah said.
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I thought George Galloway was a British politician.
Ya, and Osama Bin Laden might be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Anything is possible.
Jannati, there's a ward at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital with your name on it.
I love it when the mullaha's talk like that. I'm sure it makes some Europeans scratch their heads and say, maybe those wacky gun loving violent Americans aren't so wrong about Iran afterall.
I like new barf alert variations.
Damn.. Between this guy, Galloway and Democratic Underground, you'd almost believe there was a conspiracy to cover up the fact that Islamic terrorists bombed three subway trains and a double decker bus in London, much less the use of two plane loads of passengers to blast through the Twin Towers, or even using a plane to hit the Pentagon. Won't even speculate what they imagine the other plane that went down was doing...
President Bush should work towards putting into force his words - you're either with us, or against us.
Those democrats obviously know the Rove thing ain't going anywhere, so they're on to the next scandal...
I'd like to see "Megaton Barf Alert!" pasted onto a pic of a nuke going off.
This guy's on to us wascally infidels...
History has demonstrated the need for action. Let's start the Crusades again.
Has "the joooz did it" theory been posited by the tinfoil turban brigade?
Is this guy a Democrat or something? Wonder if the left will realize they say the very same things as this despicable despot?
So they're saying the bombing was a bad thing, are they?
Ahh.. I have the Goldberg variations by Glenn Gould in my car. On the way to/from work. Los Angeles.
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