Posted on 05/16/2009 9:01:51 AM PDT by lewisglad
According to Iranian sources, US journalist Roxana Saberi was released Tuesday, May 12, as part of an exchange deal under which Washington agreed to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers captured in Irbil, northern Iraq in January 2007. Defined as "diplomats" by Tehran, they ran terror operations and covert arms supplies from Iran then to al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent networks.
Those sources reveal that the Obama administration will also release to Tehran information on the fate of the Iranian diplomat who disappeared in Pakistan four months ago. Pakistani officials claimed at the time that he was kidnapped by the Taliban, tortured and executed, while Tehran insisted he was captured - and is still held - by US special forces because of his ties with al Qaeda.
The four Iranian agents captured in Irbil have not yet been freed, but senior Iranian and Iraqi sources say it will happen soon. The date depends on Tehran satisfying Washington's demand for information on the former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has never been heard of from the time he disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007.
On April 23 this year, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, the Iranian lawyer the Levinson family hired to trace him said he believes the missing American is alive and held at a secret location in Iran.
Our intelligence sources stress that the Obama administration's willingness for this kind of swap goes partway toward admitting to Tehran's charge that Roxana Saberi performed services in Iran for the United States.
After the Tehran court commuted the eight-year sentence against her for spying to two years suspended, her lawyer revealed that part of the Iranian case against her was that she had a copy of a confidential Iranian report on the US war in Iraq which, he said, she had copied "out of curiosity."
What ever happened to “We will not negotiate with terrorists”...or something like that. Hope someone (not in Obambi admin probably) will put a chip in these POSs so we can track them in the future.
Iran-Contra was about 20 years ago...
So apparently “hope and change” means we will CHANGE our policy against negotiating with terrorists and HOPE no one notices
But in Iran-Contra, we went around the liberal Congress to help the freedom-loving Contras and screwed the Ayatollah over in the process. As Ollie North said, "I thought it was a great idea."
This, if true, is more likely just Barry appeasing the mullahs.
> As Ollie North said, “I thought it was a great idea.”
And it was! It was a work of pure genius.
Problem for Barry is that he doesn’t have an Ollie and Poindexter in place to make something good out of all of this. It is exactly as you say, appeasing the Mullahs and one day it is going to bit Barry hard. God Willing.
(Lt-Col Ollie North was great during the Iran-Contra Hearings. I took time off work so I could watch him testify.)
I HAVE FIGURED OUT WHO OBAMA REALL YIS!!
HE is “Two Face” from Dick Tracy.
He signes a bill with 8,000 earmarkls then goes on TV and says how proud he is to have signed a bill with NO earmarks.
He budgets the biggest deficit in history then goes on to say we cannot sustain massive spending deficits
He increases 1.4 trillion in spending then trumps 100 million in spending cuts.
He says he does not want pictures released then the pictures are released.
He says he is against War Tribunal then institutes war tribunals...
He says he is not a socialist but then has the govt. try to take over the auto industry and banks and health care...
I am starting to notice a pattern here
If we could only get dumbO to swap Gore for the two Current TV reporters in N. Korea.
Excellent summation!
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