Posted on 07/17/2004 8:09:56 PM PDT by nwrep
The White House has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to produce a worldwide study of Moslem religious movements in the wake of the Islamic revolt that helped drive the shah of Iran from his country this week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told yesterday.
Administration officials disclosed at a closed-door committee hearing that Zbigniew Brzezinski, the president's national security adviser, ordered the study. These officials emphasized that the existence of the request was considered highly sensitive by the administration, because of the growing political impact of Moslem fundamentalism in many areas of the world.
The Carter administration is being charged in Congress and elsewhere with a major intelligence failure in discounting the strength and importance of the Iranian protest, which was spearheaded by Moslem religious leaders.
Asked about the report of the White House ordering an intelligence study of Moslem fundamentalism, Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) said that after "the intelligence failure" in Iran, "I have to wonder if we are competent to manage an intelligence gathering program on anything."
But that's another story altogether.
One whose consequences we are still living with today.
Unfortunately.
He should have stuck with Billie and managed their parent's peanut farm.
We all would have been a lot better off.
Thanks for the ping!
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