Posted on 01/19/2009 3:54:19 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
n an unusual last-minute act before the new administration takes over the reins, acting Treasury Secretary Stuart A. Levy’s former office issued a stunning report on Friday, laying out long-standing ties between Iran and the top leadership of al-Qaida.
As undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence since that job was created in July 2004, Levy spearheaded the Treasury Department’s efforts to take the war on international terrorists to the financial battlefield, by denying individual terrorists and terrorist-support states such as Iran access to international financial markets.
Less known, until last Friday, was Levy’s involvement in tracking down fugitive al-Qaida members who have taken up residence in Iran since they fled Afghanistan with Iranian government help after 9/11.
Levy’s office revealed stunning new evidence of the close operational ties between the Iranian regime and al-Qaida when it designated four top al-Qaida officials as “international terrorists” under the terms of Executive Order 13224.
Signed just 10 days after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Executive Order 13224 launched the civilian side of the global war against terror by publicly “designating” groups, individuals, and regimes as international terrorists or terrorist sponsors, and banning them from international financial markets.
By all accounts, Levy’s efforts to clip the wings of Iranian state-owned banks has been tremendously successful, with Iran scrambling to find new, covert means of continuing to fund terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
But this latest move in exposing the Iranian regime’s ties to top al-Qaida operatives could have explosive and far-reaching implications.
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This sort of puts Obama in a trick box. He says that the overthrow of Saddam was a distraction from the war against our “real” enemy, AQ. He says he would go after AQ hard. But he also says he wants to engage Iran and enter into direct diplomacy...yet the US Treasury Dept now confirms what lots of folks have been saying for 7 years: AQ and Iran are close allies...Oops. Actual governing is hard and tricky, unlike campaigning...
All that changes tomorrow!
I’ts “Hopey-Changey Day”!
0bama will unite all his brethren Muslim terrorists in peas and understanding!
Yes he can!
hopey-changey, CLASSIC!! LMAO!!
Amidst all the excitement, I doubt whether anyone will even notice this.
Smart people have known for a long time that Iran was a chief underwriter of al Qaeda in Iraq. But the Bush administration, for whatever reason, continually covered it up. Now it won’t even be noticed.
“But this latest move in exposing the Iranian regime’s ties to top al-Qaida operatives could have explosive and far-reaching implications.”
Well, now you went and did it. You TOLD everybody.
Yesterday I read that a bunch of AQ in North Africa died of plague. I’m suspicious that they acquired a bioweapon, because if it was a natural outbreak from fleas or rats, why would ONLY al-Qaida guys die?
Well, several months ago I read an article (it’s under the links section on my home page) about thousands of African monkeys being shipped to some medical facility in Tehran. Monkeys are used as test subjects for creating bioweapons like plague, antrhax, Ebola, etc.
And now we hear AQ has been working with Iran. Ya think Iran gave them some plague they’ve been working with and “Bioweapons 101” instructions that AQ made a mess of and died from?
Interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
...probably more closely than most people want to admit. My best guess is that it is highly likely that Al Qaeda is based in Iran, because both Iran and Al Qaeda would have it that way. Only the international trade special interests are saying that no Sunnis and Shiites would ever help one another against us.
McCain was right about Iran and al Qaeda:
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