Posted on 08/17/2005 2:48:14 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
Tehran, 17 August (AKI) - Iran's new defence minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, participated in the organization of a terrorist attack at a US Marine base in Lebanon in 1983, according to the Washington-based Iran Focus website.
The explosion of a truck full of explosives near Beirut in front of the barracks of American peacekeepers killed 241 Marines. The Lebanese Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack and Imad Mughnieh, the former Hezbollah official, who is on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted Terrorist list, was believed to be the mastermind behind the terrorist act.
According to his official biography, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, who was the former commander of the Pasdaran or Iran's Revolutionary Guards was, in that period, active within the Pasdaran in Lebanon, Palestine and the Persian Gulf.
According to Iran Focus, in the weeks preceding the attack, Najjar was in Lebanon to coordinate Hezbollah's terrorist activities.
In other words, the government thinks they found just the man for the job.
We need to exercise our right to take this man into justice. We should do it immediately and with extreme force.
Now the Iranian Himmler enters the stage.
(If you like Hillary for prez, touch the third rail.)
At this rate, Bin Laden will be soon be appointed as a "Special Advisor"
OMG, Someone in the Iranian government is a terrorist??!!! That is so hard to believe!!! What will this do to the great relations between our countries? I just don't know what this world is coming to anymore.
Now that we know where he is, we need to go in and get him. I don't see how his political appointment gets him off any "most wanted" lists.
Prez Hillary would send Jimmeh Carter as a peace envoy.
Flashback to Aug 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20030904110212/http://www.intellnet.org/news/2001/08/30/6445-1.html
Thursday, 30 August 2001 9:58 (ET)
Taliban slammed over bin Laden appointment
MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the appointment of Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, the official RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Bin Laden's appointment confirmed that a center of international terrorism is being set up in Taliban-controlled territory, the ministry said in a statement.
"Pseudo-religious values are being used as a cover to prepare a bridgehead for expansion of militant extremism and separatism far beyond the region's borders," added the statement.
This month, Russian media quoted Pakistan's Nation daily as saying that the Taliban had named bin Laden commander of their troops. Afghanistan's civil war concerns the Kremlin as hundreds of Russian border guards monitor the Afghan-Tajik border and a potential spill of violence could plunge the whole region into chaos.
Moreover, the Taliban's aim to build an orthodox Islamic state has given rise to many Islamic extremist movements in the former Soviet republics in Central Asia. In recent years, Islamic insurgents from Afghanistan launched raids on Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
The Taliban's ongoing clashes with the Northern Alliance movement backing ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani -- the leader of the government general recognized by international organizations -- have alerted Russia and its partners as arms smuggling, drug trafficking, kidnapping and other crimes have flourished along the Afghan-Tajik border.
On Thursday, Moscow also condemned the appointment of Juma Namangani as bin Laden's deputy. Namangani, an ethnic Uzbek, was liked to a number of raids on Kyrgyzstan's Batken district over the last three years. Namangani advocates creation of an Islamic state run by a regime similar to the Taliban's and spreading over Central Asia.
"Incorporation of the international terrorists' leaders into the ruling structures of the Taliban shows the need to take decisive measures to collectively counter global challenges that are put forward from the Taliban-controlled territory," said the statement. --
Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
Yet another reason to seize Iran.
I'll never forget that.
I was very sorry for your loss when I read your reply, and sad that I may have reminded you again of it.
I'm sure many will have seen the original article and think nothing of it, but I hope your reply brings somber and serious contemplation to mind about the significance of this past event and its ties to Iran's new Defense Minister.
Thanks for posting this and making us aware.
"...Ahmed Shah Massoud was known as the Lion of Panjshir. He was a man who prayed, hoped, dreamed, and fought for a free Afghanistan. He spent his entire adult life in service to his country and her people. Massoud was a man of peace forced into war. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001 by al-Qaeda suicide bombers who feared him more than any other man in the country..."
This only days before 911.
It seems like the Taliban said "we know of your great plans, OBL, but because of the potential reprocussions on our country, you will be given full responsibility for defending Afghanistan."
Perhaps OBL didn't think the US response would be so complete.
I have a feeling Iran is going through the same process: big plans are being made, shortly to be executed, and they are clearing the decks and allowing the crazies to run things for a time.
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