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Argentina Urges Iran's Cooperation in Jewish Center Bombing Probe September 04, 2003 AFP TerraNet Argentina has urged the Iranian government to fully cooperate with its investigation of a 1994 bombing of a local Jewish community center that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry said. The appeal came as Argentine Foreing Minister Rafael Bielsa and Judge Juan Jose Galeano met with an Iranian delegation led by Moshen Baharvand, deputy director of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's legal department. Iran is suspected of helping mastermind the attack that also injured 300 people.

Motorbike gunmen fire shots at British embassy in Iran Independent - By Katherine Butler and Angus McDowall in Tehran Sep 4, 2003 The British embassy in Tehran came under fire yesterday in an incident that threatens to turn an already charged atmosphere into the most serious crisis in relations with Iran since the Salman Rushdie affair. The shooting caused limited damage and injured nobody. But it came on a day when the Iranian ambassador to Britain was recalled to Tehran over the arrest of an Iranian diplomat in Britain. Shortly before midday in Tehran, shots rang out, hitting windows in...

The West's Urge to Surrender is Palpable August 26, 2003 The Jerusalem Post Mark Steyn Among the more comical moments of a grim week was the sight of the president of the Security Council expressing his condemnation of the terrorist attack on the UN. The rest of the time, he's the representative of Syria. Syria is a terrorist state. Syrians have flooded across the border into Iraq to take up arms with their beleaguered Ba'athist brethren. It would not be surprising to discover a Syrian connection to one or both of Tuesday's terrorist strikes in Baghdad and Jerusalem. Indeed, some...

Only Half Done, The Future is in Iraq August 26, 2003 National Review Online Jed Babbin That blood is still being shed in Iraq is stated every day with calculated surprise. Voiced by the media, the Dems and our faux-allies in the U.N., the surprise is a criticism of our termination of Saddam's regime, implying falsely that we promised instant success. What these critics willfully overlook is that while we fight the remnants of Saddam's regime, we are also at war — quite literally — with Iraq's terrorist neighbors. Iraq is the stage upon which the future of the Middle...

More Information on: United Association of Studies and Research. (excerpted; see url below for entire statement) FEBRUARY 24, 1998, TUESDAY HEADLINE: PREPARED STATEMENT OF STEVEN EMERSON BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM, TECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SUBJECT - FOREIGN TERRORISTS IN AMERICA: FIVE YEARS AFTER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING BODY: Introduction: The subject of today's hearing, the foreign terrorist threat in the United States, is one of the most important issues we face as a society today. With the advent of chemical and biological weapons, we now face distinct possibilities of mass civilian murder the likes of...

Will Lebanon's Horror Become Iraq's? August 22, 2003 The Washington Post Robert Baer As soon as I heard about the truck bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday, my first thought was, oh, no, here we go again, the nightmare of Beirut, 1983. The U.N. bombing has all the markings of a professional terrorist attack, the same expertise we saw in Lebanon during the '80s, even the same delivery system that was used to kill 241 U.S. servicemen in their Beirut barracks on Oct. 22, 1983 -- the strike that brought U.S. policy in Lebanon to a halt and...

UK Holds Iran Ex-Envoy Over Buenos Aires Jewish Bombing August 21, 2003 Reuters Gideon Long LONDON -- Iran's former ambassador to Argentina was arrested by British police on Thursday in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center which killed 85 people, Scotland Yard said. Hadi Soleimanpour, ambassador at the time of the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center, was arrested on an extradition warrant and would appear before London magistrates on Friday, the British police said in a statement. Last week, a judge in Argentina issued an arrest warrant through Interpol for Soleimanpour, 47, and...

Jihadis View Iraq as the Place to Slay the Great Satan August 20, 2003 Los Angeles Times Avigdor Haselkorn The United States and its allies have been facing difficult days in Iraq. On top of the daily shootings of coalition soldiers, a new phase seems to have begun with the bombings of the Jordanian Embassy and the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Though it is not clear who is behind these attacks, there should be little doubt that the struggle underway transcends the "liberation" of Iraq from Western "occupiers." The U.S. is facing much more than disorganized attacks by remnants of...

Chaos as an Anti-U.S. Strategy August 20, 2003 The New York Times Thom Shanker WASHINGTON -- The bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad provided grisly evidence of a new strategy by anti-American forces to depict the United States as unable to guarantee public order, as well as to frighten away relief organizations rebuilding Iraq. Military officers and experts on terrorism said the bombing fit a pattern of recent strikes on water and oil pipelines and the Jordanian Embassy, although they emphasized that it was too early to uncover any connections among the attacks. In recent weeks terrorists have...

INTIFADA CONFERENCE OPENS IN TEHRAN. A conference entitled Intifada -- a Step Toward Freedom will open at Tehran University on 19 August, ISNA reported the previous day. It will be hosted by the student committee of the secretariat of the Support for the Palestinian Intifada conference series. Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur -- who is secretary of the Support for the Palestinian Intifada conference series, a founder of Lebanese Hizballah, President Hojatoleslam Mohammad Khatami's special envoy, and a reformist parliamentarian from Tehran -- and Palestinian scholar and Hamas ideologue Munir Shafiq will give the opening speeches. Conference secretary Ruhollah Owhadi said...

Iran refuses US al-Qaeda access BBC 8.13.2003 Iran has no intention of allowing United States officials to interrogate the al-Qaeda suspects it has arrested, the country's president has said. US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Tuesday that Washington wanted to interrogate senior al-Qaeda members being held in Iran. But Tehran has refused to identify which al-Qaeda members it has caught and has already ruled out handing them over to the US. Saad Bin Laden, son of the Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, is thought to be one of the men being held by the Iranians.

Iran 'doubling rewards for suicide attacks' WASHINGTON - Israeli officials say new intelligence suggests that Iran is offering US$50,000 (S$88,000) to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers - double the amount paid by Saddam Hussein when he was Iraqi president. Painting a bigger picture, the officials said that there was also growing evidence that Iran was stepping up support for Palestinian militants following the US-led war in Iraq. In addition, Teheran was accelerating efforts to develop nuclear weapons that could strike Israel and other US allies in the region, they told Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised the issues...

At war for freedom The former Director of the CIA says that America should make no apology for its robust response in the "war on terrorism". And if that makes other states nervous, so much the better James Woolsey Sunday July 20, 2003 America and the western world are at war with 'fascist' Middle East governments and totalitarian Islamists. The freedoms we stand for are loathed and our vulnerable systems under attack. Liberty and security will be in conflict as we line up behind the new march of democracy. This is about the war we are in, whom it is...

BBC NEWS: Iran holds 'senior' al-Qaeda men The minister did not name those in custody Iran has said it is holding several senior members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. The Intelligence Minister, Ali Yunesi, told reporters in Tehran that a large number of "small and big" members of al-Qaeda were in Iranian custody. It is not clear how senior the detainees are, and the minister gave few details. Earlier this year, the Iranians announced the arrest of a number of alleged al-Qaeda suspects, but rejected US allegations that senior figures of the network had taken refuge in Iran.

Tell Iran's Mullahs: The Jig Is Up By Reza Bayegan FrontPageMagazine.com | July 7, 2003 Time and again the mullahs have proved themselves to be masters of press manipulation. Khomeini’s success would have been unthinkable without the international media first surrendering its power to the political wizardry of the grand Ayatollah. In the early days of the revolution up and coming foreign journalists were scrambling over each other to lend an assisting hand to the Islamic fanatics in chastising and incriminating the ancien regime. The provocative and irresponsible comments of some of these journalists exacerbated the already perilous situation of...

Iran is the Root of Islamic Terrorism July 05, 2003 Capitalism Magazine Joseph Kellard Iran is the root of Islamic terrorism, and destroying its theocracy would be a major victory in the war on terrorists. But in this war the Bush administration takes an inverted, appeasing approach. Bush not only fails to declare that the US will us force to topple Iran's regime; he's busy appeasing Palestinian terrorists that are mere heads of the Iranian hydra. Following an overwhelming military victory in Iraq, the Bush administration has renewed its pursuit of creating a Palestinian terrorist state, instead of focusing on...

In Washington and Los Angeles, Iranian exiles are stirring the pot by satellite US News and World Report Nation & World 7/14/03 By Bay Fang Off a street of strip malls in Reseda, Calif., tucked behind an Arby's, a burly Iranian-American talk-show host named Shahram Homayoun sits at a desk, before a camera, and tries to foment revolution. But instead of guests joining him on the peach-wallpapered set that resembles a suburban living room, Homayoun has only a phone and fax machine, and he works like a switchboard operator. As the camera rolls and the phone lights up, he punches...