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2 Americans believed detained in Iran are not among those coming home (Robert Levinson, Namazi)
The Washington Post ^ | January 16 at 4:56 PM | Adam Goldman

Posted on 01/17/2016 4:48:16 AM PST by Dave346

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To: StoneWall Brigade

State Dept flights land in Iran all the time. They could fly anything they want in on the same flight as the Iranian convicts.


21 posted on 01/17/2016 5:58:48 PM PST by piasa
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To: pepsionice

Maybe... maybe not...

1980 : (MD : AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSLIM CONVERT DAVID BELFIELD a/k/a HASSAN ABDULRAHMAN a/k/a DAWUD SALAHUDDIN ASSASSINATES ALI ACKBAR TABATABAI, ONE OF THE SHAH OF IRAN’S DIPLOMATS ; DAVID BELFIELD WOULD GO ON TO BECOME AN EDITOR FOR IRANIAN PRESS TV AND BE THE LAST PERSON TO SEE FORMER FBI AGENT LEVINSON ON MARCH 8, 2007 BEFORE HE WAS ABDUCTED FROM KISH, AN ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF IRAN)

Levinson was supposedly investigating cigarette smuggling. Cig smuggling was a Hezbollah specialty.


22 posted on 01/17/2016 6:04:09 PM PST by piasa
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To: piasa

That I didn’t know thank you for pointing that out. So that pretty much throws my theory out the window.


23 posted on 01/17/2016 6:04:30 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: pepsionice

Levinson - who was working for several companies, [maybe a British one?] was abducted 2 weeks before the Iranians -in small boats- pulled a similar stunt to what we just witnessed with our riverine team. Their small craft converged on a British navy boat as if friendly then presented weapons and started giving orders, then later lied about the British vessel being in their waters.


24 posted on 01/17/2016 6:11:51 PM PST by piasa
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To: pepsionice

The regime pretty much runs their criminal syndicates.


25 posted on 01/17/2016 6:12:50 PM PST by piasa
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To: piasa

Yep.. a British one ...
British American Tobacco.
Maybe capturing the British Naval vessel was a special warning message from the regime’s IRGC to the board of that ‘company’ for sending him.

If so, then this event could be such a message as well, from IRGC to Namazi’s ‘employer.’


26 posted on 01/17/2016 6:23:27 PM PST by piasa
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To: visualops

What’s to stop him from giving clemency to the Blind Sheikh, if anything?


27 posted on 01/17/2016 6:26:05 PM PST by piasa
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To: alancarp

Don’t assume the boats made a shortcut when it is likely the Iranians just nabbed them in international waters. The Iranians have lied before on where they encountered the vessels of other nations.


28 posted on 01/17/2016 6:29:57 PM PST by piasa
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To: Dave346

Trivia:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3351305/posts


29 posted on 01/17/2016 6:41:51 PM PST by piasa
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To: piasa

Yep he can pardon anyone he wants. There aren’t really any “rules”, only a current method by which is usually gets done. Which of course this instance proves all you need “is a pen and a phone”.

Regards the boats, they likely were in international waters and the current ROE/Obama house rules being what they are, instead of shooting their attackers, they surrender and a story is made up to “prove” that Iran was not making an act of war.


30 posted on 01/17/2016 7:23:41 PM PST by visualops (Why yes, I am on the #TrumpTrain. I'd like to win for a change.)
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To: pepsionice

There were pictures of him, I believe a video too, where he has grey hair and beard. That isn’t going to circulate without the Iranian gov’t knowing what happened & where he is, mafia or not.


31 posted on 01/18/2016 4:12:16 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: MinuteGal

I don’t feel sorry at all for Nemazi

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3354554/posts


32 posted on 01/18/2016 4:18:49 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: piasa

That’s why it’s been suspected that he’s been held in Lebanon


33 posted on 01/18/2016 4:20:22 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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