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To: Velveeta; Calpernia; Rushmore Rocks; nw_arizona_granny

"Guilt by Association"

(how Ahmadinejad and Zawahiri are connected)


Ahmadinejad reportedly met with Mughniyah in January at a summit in Damascus to coordinate action against the U.S. and Israel.

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=26427

Ahmadinejad and Mughniyah have likely known each other for two decades when Ahmadinejad served abroad in the IRGC special forces (Qods) and Mughniyah was operations chief for Hezbollah (which was trained by the Qods Force).

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/ahmadinejad.htm

http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=460

Mughniyah was reportedly Zawahiri's IRGC liaison officer in the 1990s and therefore Zawahiri has been al Qaeda's highest original connection to Iran going back over a decade.

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP47303

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA12703

Zawahiri was the guy supposedly shopping in Chechnya for nukes 10 years ago.

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa20649.000/hfa20649_0f.htm

So you have al Qaeda's chief ideologist and second-in-command (Zawahiri) connected to the new Iranian President (Ahmadinejad) and both sharing a fixation on America, Israel and using nuclear technology against both.

And just three months ago, Zawahiri's old liaison to Iran (Mughniyah) met with Ahmadinejad at a terror summit in Damascus to coordinate actions against Israel and the U.S.

And just 24 hours before this Passover Zawahiri tape came out, Ahmadinejad made perhaps his most extreme threat yet against the U.S. and Israel saying that they will "burn in the fire of the nation's fury".

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6733

when I "connect the dots" I see

"n . . .u . . .c . . .l . . .e . . .a . . .r . . .
a . . .t . . .t . . .a . . .c . . .k"


59 posted on 04/13/2006 6:43:10 PM PDT by callmejoe
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To: callmejoe
And just three months ago, Zawahiri's old liaison to Iran (Mughniyah) met with Ahmadinejad at a terror summit in Damascus to coordinate actions against Israel and the U.S.

I got as far as that line and froze. Chills.

60 posted on 04/13/2006 7:26:21 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: callmejoe; WestCoastGal; MamaDearest

Thanks for the ping and your insight. It just raised my "pucker factor" a notch or two...........and it was already pretty high after hearing of Z's tape release yesterday.


61 posted on 04/13/2006 7:36:28 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: callmejoe

when I "connect the dots" I see

"n . . .u . . .c . . .l . . .e . . .a . . .r . . .
a . . .t . . .t . . .a . . .c . . .k"<<<<

Yes, your dots connet, others see the same message in them.

I do.


76 posted on 04/14/2006 10:39:41 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (TODAY WOULD BE A GOOD DAY FOR LOTS OF HEAVY PRAYING, THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS.)
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To: callmejoe; Calpernia; Naptowne; nw_arizona_granny; Rushmore Rocks; Velveeta; WestCoastGal

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/04/15/1144521544495.html

'One storm' decoded as nuclear hit
By Tim Butcher
April 16, 2006


PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has issued Israel with a veiled threat of a nuclear attack, describing it as a "rotten, dried tree" that would be annihilated by "one storm".

In his most vitriolic and anti-Semitic attack to date, Mr Ahmadinejad warned on Friday that Israel faced imminent destruction.

While he did not refer explicitly to nuclear weapons, his reference to the "one storm" that would do away with Israel was seen as a code for nuclear Armageddon.

Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons but Tehran is widely believed to be bent on developing its own nuclear military capability, in defiance of international protocols and peace treaties. Friday's outburst will only worsen the stand-off between Iran and the big powers over its nuclear ambitions.

President George Bush, like many US leaders before him, is an ardent supporter of Israel and his Administration would not stand by if Iran posed a threat to it.

Israel has warned it would not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear capability. Israel is the only Middle Eastern country with nuclear weapons although it never publicly admits this.

Speaking at the opening of a conference in Tehran to support the Palestinian cause, Mr Ahmadinejad repeated earlier anti-Semitic attacks on Israel, questioning the scale of the Holocaust and attacking Zionism.

"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," he said. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."

He poured scorn on the established history of the Holocaust, saying an atrocity committed in Europe should be settled in Europe.

"If such a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied?"

The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, "will be freed soon". He did not say how.

Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking days after Israel's chief of military intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, said Iran could develop a nuclear bomb "within three years, by the end of the decade".


79 posted on 04/15/2006 1:08:16 PM PDT by callmejoe
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To: Cindy; Donna Lee Nardo; Domestic Church; Godzilla; nw_arizona_granny; nwctwx; Oorang; ...

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm

Assistance from Hezbollah and Iran to al Qaeda

As we mentioned in chapter 2, while in Sudan, senior managers in al Qaeda maintained contacts with Iran and the Iranian-supported worldwide terrorist organization Hezbollah, which is based mainly in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Al Qaeda members received advice and training from Hezbollah.

Intelligence indicates the persistence of contacts between Iranian security officials and senior al Qaeda figures after Bin Ladin's return to Afghanistan. Khallad has said that Iran made a concerted effort to strengthen relations with al Qaeda after the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, but was rebuffed because Bin Ladin did not want to alienate his supporters in Saudi Arabia. Khallad and other detainees have described the willingness of Iranian officials to facilitate the travel of al Qaeda members through Iran, on their way to and from Afghanistan. For example, Iranian border inspectors would be told not to place telltale stamps in the passports of these travelers. Such arrangements were particularly beneficial to Saudi members of al Qaeda.120

Our knowledge of the international travels of the al Qaeda operatives selected for the 9/11 operation remains fragmentary. But we now have evidence suggesting that 8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi "muscle" operatives traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001.121

In October 2000, a senior operative of Hezbollah visited Saudi Arabia to coordinate activities there. He also planned to assist individuals in Saudi Arabia in traveling to Iran during November. A top Hezbollah commander and Saudi Hezbollah contacts were involved.122

Also in October 2000, two future muscle hijackers, Mohand al Shehri and Hamza al Ghamdi, flew from Iran to Kuwait. In November, Ahmed al Ghamdi apparently flew to Beirut, traveling-perhaps by coincidence-on the same flight as a senior Hezbollah operative. Also in November, Salem al Hazmi apparently flew from Saudi Arabia to Beirut.123

In mid-November, we believe, three of the future muscle hijackers, Wail al Shehri, Waleed al Shehri, and Ahmed al Nami, all of whom had obtained their U.S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran. An associate of a senior Hezbollah operative was on the same flight that took the future hijackers to Iran. Hezbollah officials in Beirut and Iran were expecting the arrival of a group during the same time period. The travel of this group was important enough to merit the attention of senior figures in Hezbollah.124

Later in November, two future muscle hijackers, Satam al Suqami and Majed Moqed, flew into Iran from Bahrain. In February 2001, Khalid al Mihdhar may have taken a flight from Syria to Iran, and then traveled further within Iran to a point near the Afghan border.125

KSM and Binalshibh have confirmed that several of the 9/11 hijackers (at least eight, according to Binalshibh) transited Iran on their way to or from Afghanistan, taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi passports. They deny any other reason for the hijackers' travel to Iran. They also deny any relationship between the hijackers and Hezbollah.126

In sum, there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers. There also is circumstantial evidence that senior Hezbollah operatives were closely tracking the travel of some of these future muscle hijackers into Iran in November 2000. However, we cannot rule out the possibility of a remarkable coincidence-that is, that Hezbollah was actually focusing on some other group of individuals traveling from Saudi Arabia during this same time frame, rather than the future hijackers.127

We have found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack. At the time of their travel through Iran, the al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the specific details of their future operation.

After 9/11, Iran and Hezbollah wished to conceal any past evidence of cooperation with Sunni terrorists associated with al Qaeda. A senior Hezbollah official disclaimed any Hezbollah involvement in 9/11.128

We believe this topic requires further investigation by the U.S. government.


304 posted on 07/24/2006 8:54:44 PM PDT by callmejoe
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