Columbia Alumnus Freed in Iran

News Max ^ | 9/24/07 | Susan Jones

[indcons]

“Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh, who works for George Soros’s Open Society Institute, was one of several Iranian-Americans detained by Iran for allegedly conspiring against Iran’s national security.”

Ironic

[Freedom2specul8]

I thought you might be interested in this....

[dighton]

Whaddaya know,
A quid pro quo.

[Crim]

No...I smell a rat...

a set up and shake down...me thinks

quid pro quo....

[umgud]

A quid pro quo.

Yeah, Soros' moveon & the NYT placed a full page ad about General Betrayus and Ahmadinajad gets a standing ovation at the end of his speech by leftist acadenicians and their brainwashed students.

[txhurl]

What a repugnant cast of characters in this story.

[dervish]

Soros/Open Society is a big contributor to this research project at Columbia: Gulf/2000

http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/about.shtml

Gary Sick, the head of that project, is an an apologist for the Mullocracy, and Carter’s man during the Iran hostage crisis.

[indcons]

You might well be right

[TexasCajun]

Hummmm...

One has to wonder if the invitation came first or the release

I smell something fishy!

[EBH]

Interesting turn of events. I wonder if Bollinger actually pulled off getting his guy released by promising Imanutjob a venue, but then rattled the cage with the introduction he gave him. Me thinks, Bollinger was madder than heck at what he had to do to secure the release and wanted to be sure Imanutjob understood there was no true capitulation to the “petty dictator.”

[gunnedah]

No doubt Liberals and the Democrat left wing of the party was involved. Soros is buying America.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks dervish.

Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh, who works for George Soros's Open Society Institute, was one of several Iranian-Americans detained by Iran for allegedly conspiring against Iran's national security. Tajbakhsh was freed on bail last Thursday... In a statement on the Columbia University Web site, President Lee C. Bollinger said that he was among the "chorus of voices" calling on the Iranian government to free Dr. Tajbakhsh, a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation... "Dr. Tajbakhsh's belated release on bail should not change our determination to challenge the regime's record of unjust imprisonment and repression of such scholars, journalists and advocates working for a freer society in Iran," Bollinger added. Earlier this month, Iran released another Iranian-American scholar, Haleh Esfandiari, who was detained for eight months (including three months in jail) on the same charge that landed Tajbakhsh in an Iranian prison. Two weeks ago, Esfandiari returned to her job as director of the Middle East program for the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C.

Soros' Open Society Institute, and the WWIC -- shills for the Dhimmicrats.

[Freedom2specul8]

My first reaction (after reading this) was a strong concern for the “safety” of the graduates after the attack by the columbia president.

[gunnedah]

I think Bollinger could really care less. He was trying to recover from the invite. It is sad but foreign governments play our people like a drum.

[VOA]

Your scenario sure sounds plausible.

But as much as I detest Columbia U for their treatment of Jim Gilchrist
(of The Minuteman), I’ll also consider this story a possible “fig leaf”
constructed for Bollinger and all the other useful idiots of Columbia U.

[wildbill]

Interesting. the invite Might have been part of a deal.

[Seadog Bytes]

Now THAT makes more sense... now that we know.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, what’s a little blackmail between friends? ;’)

[Seadog Bytes]

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