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Assassination attempt on Ahmadinejad thwarted
Jerusalem Post ^

Posted on 10/18/2010 9:13:38 AM PDT by jhpigott

'Assassination attempt on Ahmadinejad thwarted'

10/18/10

Lebanese intelligence prevented an assassination attempt on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to Lebanon last week, reported Kuwaiti newspaper al-Siyasa as cited by Channel 10 News.

Sources told the newspaper that as Ahmadinejad was making his way to Bint J'beil, an order was received from Lebanese intelligence to stop the Iranian president's convoy and return to Beirut.

The paper reported that Hizbullah was not convinced by the information and insisted on taking responsibility for the safety of Ahmadinejad, but Lebanese President Michel Suleiman intervened, saying Ahmadinejad's safety was the responsibility of the state.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; breakingnews; hizbullah; iran; israel; lebanon; michelsuleiman; obama; waronterror
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Not a very comfortable time to be a leader of a Middle Eastern country. In addition to recent reports/rumors of assassination attempts on Lebanese PM Hariri and Turkish PM Erdogan, now it looks like there was a recent attempt on Ahmadinejad's life . . . too bad that didn't work out.
1 posted on 10/18/2010 9:13:39 AM PDT by jhpigott
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Blaming America is 5...4...3..2.


2 posted on 10/18/2010 9:14:50 AM PDT by edcoil (No "D's" for me!)
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To: MississippiMan; ctdonath2; LibertyRocks; GonzoGOP; b4its2late; bert; maquiladora; hennie pennie; ...

ping


3 posted on 10/18/2010 9:14:50 AM PDT by jhpigott
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To: jhpigott

If at first you don’t succeed....Try, try, again.


4 posted on 10/18/2010 9:16:35 AM PDT by DGHoodini
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To: edcoil

Nah, blaming Israel in ...


5 posted on 10/18/2010 9:18:13 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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'Assassination attempt on Ahmadinejad thwarted'

Ah, rats!

6 posted on 10/18/2010 9:20:36 AM PDT by Kenton (Just my $0.02 worth...)
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To: jhpigott

1st you must blame the Joooz, then you blame the Americans for supporting them.


7 posted on 10/18/2010 9:20:40 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (The candidate they smear and ridicule the most is the one they fear the most.)
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To: ReneeLynn; edcoil

Nah, blaming Israel AND America in...


8 posted on 10/18/2010 9:21:21 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 634 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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Lebanese intelligence prevented an assassination attempt on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Why?

9 posted on 10/18/2010 9:22:09 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: jhpigott

Or, this is a fake report to garner sympathy for I’MaNutJob.


10 posted on 10/18/2010 9:22:29 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: jhpigott

The Israelis could blow up a guy in a wheel chair if they wanted to.


11 posted on 10/18/2010 9:24:04 AM PDT by McGruff (A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs)
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The Israelis could blow up a guy in a wheel chair if they wanted to.


12 posted on 10/18/2010 9:24:15 AM PDT by McGruff (A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs)
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To: raybbr

You’ve won a free ko-ran!


13 posted on 10/18/2010 9:24:43 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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Why?

It was probably a ploy. They would love for Israel to take a shot at him, but they know Israel is too civilized for their backward games. So, the next best thing is to fake it.

14 posted on 10/18/2010 9:24:49 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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No it was not America as Obama wants Ahmadinejad to come visit the White House for beer and to just chill out. So it had to be Israel as the Jew’s have it in for Nut Job (Ahmadinejad )

Yep it was the Jews.


15 posted on 10/18/2010 9:24:58 AM PDT by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world or Obamaville USSA.)
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I am deeply saddened.


16 posted on 10/18/2010 9:26:05 AM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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Not sure if it fake or not, but it certainly fleshes out the growing tension in Lebanon between Hezbollah (and the “Resistance parties”) and the Hariri/March14 coalition. IMO this whole issue with the STL indictments for the 2005 assassination of Hariri is going to lead to some serious bloodshed in Lebanon.

Report: Ahmadinejad survived an assassination attempt during Lebanon visit

10/18/10

A Kuwaiti newspaper on Monday claimed that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an assassination attempt during his last week’s visit to Lebanon. Following information gathered by the Lebanese intelligence, the Iranian leader changed his accommodation from “Phoenicia Hotel’ to’the Iranian embassy in Beirut, the report added.

According to the newspaper, the arrival of the Iranian leader to south Lebanon on Thursday was delayed by more than two hours. The sources cited by the newspaper said that his convoy began to move toward the south on the Coastal Road but then it was ordered to return amid fears among the top officers of the Lebanese army that the assassins will try to hurt him during the trip. The Iranian president’s convoy returned back to the airport in Beirut and an argument developed between Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and head of the army. Nasrallah claimed that the road is secured by his men but the army was not sure about this. At the end the Iranian leader went to the south by helicopter.

For fear of his assassination, Ahmadinejad did not spend the night as planned at Beirut’s Phoenicia Hotel but in his country’a embassy in the Lebanese capital. He was secretly rushed early in the morning to the hotel to dine with his guests.

It should be noted that before the visit an unnamed Sunni organization vowed to kill the Iranian president.

http://www1.albawaba.com/main-headlines/report-ahmadinejad-survived-assassination-attempt-during-lebanon-visit


17 posted on 10/18/2010 9:26:20 AM PDT by jhpigott
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I don’t way ANY leader anywhere assassinated. The world is too much of a tinder box right now. It’s how WWI started and I don’t want a repeat of hostilities. I never want to see any murdered anytime, but now in particular. I remember the 60s and am not anxious to experience the unrest again.


18 posted on 10/18/2010 9:32:32 AM PDT by twigs
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You mean like Leon Kligoffer(sp?) on that attacked ship?? and by the Muzzies...


19 posted on 10/18/2010 9:33:32 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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moslems threatening and killing moslems...this must be something new. /s
20 posted on 10/18/2010 9:37:18 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform)
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