Posted on 08/27/2005 10:16:03 PM PDT by Enchante
What the team leader found that Sunday morning was nothing less than a complete documented record of operational ties between Iran and al-Qaeda for the critical months just prior to September 11. "The documents showed Iran was facilitating the travel of al-Qaeda operatives, ordering Iranian border inspectors not to put telltale stamps on their passports, thus keeping their travel documents clean," the team leader told me. "The Iranians were fully aware that they were helping operatives who were part of an organization preparing attacks against the United States." ... Most troubling among the seventy-five documents the team read that Sunday morning in July were masses of reports on Iranian intelligence operative Imad Mugniyeh, who is described in the 9/11 Commission Report as "a senior Hezbollah operative." The raw reporting showed that well before 9/11, the United States had hard intelligence that the Tehran regime had appointed Mugniyeh as the point man for operational contacts with Bin Laden's men. That coincided with the information Zakeri brought to the CIA in Baku four months before the attack. ....
In fact, not much of this material makes it into the report at all. Mugniyeh didn't make the cut, despite evidence that he facilitated more than half of the muscle hijackers' entry during the late spring of 2001 into the United States for their 9/11 attacks. This, the CIA rationalized, only proved that the hijackers traveled through Iran, and not to Iran. However, that still leaves an open question about why their passports did not reflect those visits -- a question that the Commission never bothers to bring up, let alone answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at captainsquartersblog.com ...
" it's going to explode in the MSM "
wrong, 911 never happened and if it did it was all bush's fault.(/sarcasm)
honestly, the truth will finally come out but it will hardly make the 4:00am news and 12 page of the local.
Hey dog .. can you put this into english for me?
I won't believe there are any terrorists in the Middle East until Cindy Sheehan says so. She IS the de facto expert on all things related to military and national security. Until she makes a comment, I'll just assume this is part of that neo-con Zionist plot that killed Casey.
/sarc
Could this be why the liberals keep itching that Iraq/Saddam was not involved with al-Qaeda?
ONLY if their feet are held to the fire, as CBS and Dan Rather's were. Meanwhile, they'll continue to try to discredit every new bit of information. They haven't left the '90s and are still operating under the old Clinton DNC Stylebook 'guidelines'.
ARTICLE..."Most troubling among the seventy-five documents the team read that Sunday morning in July were masses of reports on Iranian intelligence operative Imad Mugniyeh, who is described in the 9/11 Commission Report as "a senior Hezbollah operative."
Yes sir...Ive been waiting for news of this guy to surface. I suspect that he was the actual operational planner for the 9-11 attacks. He is reported to be a genius but also quite psychotic. At one point he was the most wanted terrorist.
Ive always felt that Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri traveled to Iran right before Tora Bora...and are working right along with this guy in Iran now planning the next big one.
Once again...why leave this stuff out?
I'm glad he is!!! This story is important.
BUMP for Able Danger info.
My friends and I were just out on our deck discussing this very thing. The people in this country act as if 911 had never happened. I never in my wildest dreams would have believed we would be in this situation today, but we are. We share with country with a bunch of self centered ignorant people who only believe what they hear on the MSM because they are too lazy to find out the truth.
"We do know one thing after almost three weeks of Able Danger revelations -- the Commission report has no credibility as a truthful analysis of the forces behind 9/11 and our information prior to the attacks."
I think they have been damaged severely on credibility, but nothing happens unless this gets media play.
You are correct. I said a year ago that we need another hit before the house-plants wake up.... Maybe.
Assume the Iran tie had come out at or about 9/11. What would have occurred? Perhaps a demand for war against Iran? Maybe the agency was told to keep the Iran ties under wraps until the right time...
Iraq with Saddam was KEY for other nations to get cheap "oil", all under a UN lead oil for rotten food program.
Those other nations are just as accountable as any of these terrorists and their walled up networks.
Russia is the one who provided Iran with the goods to go nuclear and it would be interesting to see exactly what that contract said. What did the Russians get?
Bump!
It's politically incorrect to show images of 9/11, but the poor, defenseless, innocent terrorists with underpants on their heads is ok.
bttt
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