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Pompeo alleges Iran new 'home base' of Al-Qaeda
AFP News Agency ^ | 1/12/2021 | Staff

Posted on 01/12/2021 4:35:51 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleges that arch-enemy Iran has become a new "home base" for Al-Qaeda, an assertion questioned by experts. In a speech a week before leaving office, Pompeo confirmed a New York Times report that Al-Qaeda's second-in-command was killed last year in Tehran, although he did not say that Israel carried it out.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; iran
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1 posted on 01/12/2021 4:35:51 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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Historic, long-time enemies Sunni and Shia are now BFF? Al-Qaeda was most definitely in Afghanistan, but yet somehow we had to go into Iraq because of them, and lo and behold they are now in Iran?


2 posted on 01/12/2021 4:37:00 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clooo Much Time At The Ci)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Thank you Pompeo from a fellow Kansan for standing by the great President Trump!


3 posted on 01/12/2021 4:38:56 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Iram admitted years ago they had Osama’s family and/or associates in “house arrest.”


4 posted on 01/12/2021 4:40:38 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Shut up.


5 posted on 01/12/2021 4:42:08 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

I’m certainly not privy to his information, but this doesn’t make sense to me.


6 posted on 01/12/2021 4:42:19 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ifinnegan

Twitter, is that you?


7 posted on 01/12/2021 4:43:18 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clooo Much Time At The Ci)
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To: ifinnegan

Wonderful addition to the discussion.


8 posted on 01/12/2021 4:43:27 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

No, it doesn’t make sense.


9 posted on 01/12/2021 4:44:23 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clooo Much Time At The Ci)
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To: EEGator

It’s a good explanation for idiots trying to discredit Pomoeo.

Shut up,” he explained.

Shoe fits.


10 posted on 01/12/2021 4:46:55 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Al Qaeda considers Shia Muslims to be apostate.
There’s a reason Dante had the lowest Circle of Hell left to the betrayers.


11 posted on 01/12/2021 4:46:56 PM PST by EEGator
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Iran was always the home base of AQ and all Islamic terrorists, even those who weren’t Shia.

I never understood why Bush attacked Iraq rather than Iran, which was clearly the source of 9/11 (although it may have run through Iraq).


12 posted on 01/12/2021 4:47:26 PM PST by livius
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Here we go with the war talk.


13 posted on 01/12/2021 4:47:27 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: ifinnegan

Why, and how, would Sunni extremists take up residence in Shia Iran?


14 posted on 01/12/2021 4:49:33 PM PST by EEGator
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Personally, I was in the military in 79. We should have attacked Iran after the mullahs took over our embassy. I’m sure all ME history would have been different had we had a real President like Reagan at that time.


15 posted on 01/12/2021 4:54:38 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: ifinnegan

Discredit?

Nice try to make it about me when it isn’t about me.

Secondly, Pompeo has done a pretty good job but he isn’t perfect.

Third, this is about he proving his case when doesn’t have history plus religious tension bewteen Sunni (AQ) vs Shia (Iran) on his side.


16 posted on 01/12/2021 4:56:29 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clooo Much Time At The Ci)
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At the end of the day they want and need money and support. With the coming administration wanting to get back into the Iran Deal, they’ll have it and Iran will use them as the useful idiots they are.

And with unvetted access to the US when they open the borders, car bombs and suicide bombers will be coming to the USA.

Blame the Republican Legislatures in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin. Michigan, and Pennsylvania for anything that happens.

As for Georgia, blame the legislature, SOS, Lt Gov and Governor for all
Sorts of sh*t.


17 posted on 01/12/2021 4:57:48 PM PST by qaz123
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QOM. 3rd biggest city. The Holy city of...


18 posted on 01/12/2021 4:58:03 PM PST by Jumper
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“Why, and how, would Sunni extremists take up residence in Shia Iran?”

You sound like every liberal leftist democrat since 911.

Iran uses who they see as useful.

You believe in their purity as if they have some sort of integrity or virtue or values.


19 posted on 01/12/2021 4:58:59 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Lol. Comment of the day.


20 posted on 01/12/2021 4:59:47 PM PST by softengine
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