Posted on 06/26/2004 12:28:10 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
Former CIA analyst Douglas MacEachin, a member of the 9-11 commission staff, said in testimony last week Iran and its terrorist group ally Hezbollah were linked to the al-Qaida terrorist group.
Other U.S. intelligence officials said there is also evidence Iran is linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the officials, two of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who were aboard the aircraft that hit the Pentagon, had stayed at the Iranian ambassador's residence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before entering the United States in January 2001.
MacEachin disclosed that the Iran-al-Qaida ties were revealed in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence complex that housed U.S. military personnel in Saudi Arabia. The bombing killed 19 Americans.
The attack was believed to be the work of a Saudi Shi'ite Hezbollah group with help from Iran.
"Intelligence obtained shortly after the bombing, however, also supported suspicions of bin Laden's involvement," MacEachin said. "There were reports in the months preceding the attack that he was seeking to facilitate another shipment of explosives to Saudi Arabia, and on the day of the attack he was congratulated by other members of the Islamic Army."
U.S. intelligence agencies mistakenly assumed that, since a Shi'ite group was involved, rival Sunnis were not, he said.
"Later intelligence, however, showed a far greater potential for collaboration between Hezbollah and al-Qaida than many had previously thought," MacEachin said.
Several years before the Khobar bombing, bin Laden and Iranian officials held talks on ending differences "to cooperate against a common enemy," he said.
"A small group of al-Qaida operatives subsequently traveled to Iran, and another group went to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon for training in explosives and intelligence," he said. "And Bin Laden is reported to have showed particular interest at this time in the Hezbollah truck-bombing tactics used in Lebanon in 1983 that had killed 241 U.S. Marines. So in sum, we have seen now strong but indirect evidence that bin Laden's organization did in fact play some as yet unknown role in the Khobar attack."
Oh Geez, now it is really getting juicy!!
You just have to roll your eyes when you read stuff like this.
How long exactly have our intelligence agencies been populated by such morons?
It makes one wonder! That's what we get for teaching "diversity" and making QUILTS instead of looking for TERRORISTS! It will be YEARS before we can rid ourselves of such IDIOTIC nonsense after the Clinton crowd is CLEARED from the place!
Istanbul, June 25: International investigators are examining whether Syria acquired nuclear technology and expertise through the black market network operated by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, according to a US official and western diplomats
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040626/asp/foreign/story_3419398.asp
It's true: You can't assume the analysts at government agnecies have better information, or are better educated, or are more intelligent than you or me.
Read up on Joseph Wilson's daring mission to the Hilton in Niger. THAT is what passes for primary source research at the CIA???
God help us.
Or Joe Wilson's wife!
I suspect that's exactly what bin Laden was attempting to do in Iraq.
Hezbollah? Isn't that the outfit backing the distribution of Moore's film?
BUMP
Since 1979, Iran has been the center of global terrorism. It has provided the funding and training for terrorists of all stripes. If we are to win the WOT, Iran and the mullahs must be defeated.
We need to turn a whole lot of Iranian sand into glass. And no rebuilding!
Axis of evil bump!
Bttt
Since 1979.... France has been the unprecedented friend and political ally of radical Arab regimes which are now falling 1-2-3. The fallout from the end of the cold war, e.g., soviet allies and French alike are now feeling the pressure non-finance in economically hard times in Europe and Russia. I think part of the solution is bankrupt both France and Russia!
Thanks for the ping!
As we connect the dots, it looks more and more like there is a conspiracy among the "Arab States" including Persian Iran. Step back and it looks like they have a plan to develop weapons, destroy Israel, attack us and ride out the (temporary) consequences.
These folks have been playing the cutout, plausible deniability game with the west for over forty years.
A jihadi is a jihadi is a jihadi and the time for even pretending to believe them is long over.
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