RushLimbaugh.com
November 21, 2003
Mansoor Ijaz, whose foreign policy insights I have long praised, rang up Fox and Friends live from London on Thursday morning to talk about his extraordinary report that Osama bin Laden is in Iran. Ijaz has spent about a month "quietly debriefing some very important intelligence sources that have come out of Iran" who feel the radical Islamist regime is taking the country "right off the cliff" by putting up Osama in one of the Western provinces. < P> Mansoor told Weather Guy Steve Doocy, "I think the time has come now to essentially confront the Iranian regime with the question, 'Are you harboring the top three or four leaders of Al-Qaeda?' This is the specific information that we have." Mansoor reports that Osama and his deputy Ayman Zawahiri crossed over into Iran in old Soviet-style black limos, under the guidance of the head of the Ayatollah's Revolutionary Guard. He says that the U.S. government now has this information, and is deciding how to deal with it.
My opinion has long been that we snuffed out bin Laden when we turned Tora Bora's thermostat up to 2,000 degrees. But if we didn't and he survived, it would make total sense for him to hightail it to Iran. Iran has always been one of the principal exporters of, and training centers for, terrorism. Note that Iran's statement that it's pursuing nuclear power for energy when it's a nation sitting atop a lake of oil, is so transparent a lie that even UN Atomic Energy Commission head Mohammed ElBaradei doesn’t buy it. As I've always said: keep an eye on Iran.
