Posted on 06/30/2005 2:37:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The US says it is examining reports that Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took part in the 1979 hostage-taking at Tehran's US embassy. Some of the former US hostages have said they recognise Mr Ahmadinejad as one of their captors.
But three Iranians involved in the action, as well as Mr Ahmadinejad's own staff, have denied that he took part. Mohsen Mirdamadi, the hostage-takers' leader, told the BBC that the new president had not been there.
Another top student leader, Abbas Abdi, also denied the allegations as did Hamid Reza Jalaiepour, a third hostage-taker.
The BBC's Frances Harrison in Tehran says the three former students are now reformists who oppose hardliners like Mr Ahmadinejad, and would have no reason to hide his involvement now. Questions raised Photographs have appeared on the internet showing a young bearded man leading a blindfolded American hostage - alleging that this was Mr Ahmadinejad a quarter of a century ago.
But the man in the photograph appears much taller than Mr Ahmadinejad, and looks nothing like other pictures of him as a student which can be found on his website, Frances Harrison says. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the allegations should be taken seriously.
"I think the news reports and statements from several former American hostages raise many questions about his past," he said. "We take them very seriously and we are looking into them to better understand the facts." One former hostage said he was sure the man was Mr Ahmadinejad. "This is the guy," retired army colonel Chuck Scott told AP news agency. "There's no question about it. You could make him a blond and shave his whiskers, put him in a zoot suit and I'd still spot him." Four other former hostages agreed with Mr Scott, but at least one disagrees. A total of 52 US citizens were taken hostage after a group of young activists climbed over the embassy wall during the Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the Shah and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power.
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I've never come across an Iranian blog. I had friends in college from Iran. I guess it depends on your class there, because none of them had the desire to have the USA be thier savior.
I never forgot it.
And they went back and found her:
Aren't they disarmed? I know they can do the "same" things terrorists do but I thought it was harder in Iran to get the needed items to fight back.
Heck, I don't want all Muslims dead; just "some" of them.......LOL.
We even have pics of them! :)
I hope you do read the Kite Runner, it'll give you just a small taste of what it must have been like and the ending is incredible.
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OMG. It makes me want to adopt them all.
I remember when all the pictures were coming out and the news coverage after 9/11, I'd look around my kitchen and think those people would be happy to live in my kitchen. They'd have water, heat, a/c, food, and most of all, safety.
I swear, liberals are just insane, I dont get it, the total lack of coherent thinking on this stuff...
I'm going to read that book.
I'm getting hostile too. They are undermining troop morale, amusing the jihadists and emboldening them, and dividing the country.
I have to leave before I start swearing and I don't sleep all night :-)
I usually hesitate to read books that one of my guys recommend (after pledging to read Blackhawk Down) but this one was great. I hope that someone who stayed through the entire thing writes a book someday.
I'll mail you my copy tomorrow if you want. Just freepmail me or e-mail me the particulars, if interested.
Off to dreamland...
The friends you have in college are probably connected to the mad mullahs. They, of course, have no problem with the regime since they enjoy the fruits of the oppression of their fellow citizens.
Me either, Race.
And I'm to the point I cannot put up with it anymore; I do everything I can to avoid my inlaws in any situation that allows any kind of spontaneous conversation, because it ALWAYS leads to an argument.
Of course. That must be it. They are the spawn of mad mullahs.
There are lots of middle eastern blogs out there, Iranian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Syrian and there even used to be a Saudi blog until the guy got scared enough to quit.
It's not the guy right holding the hostages arm. It's the guy to the far right.
I would agree with you if you look at his huge "Roman" nose!!!
I guess I have more of a human perspective on Iraq than you. It seems your view is a product of the MSM.
I'm smelling ozone again.
You're taking a hostile tone towards people who CLEARLY know more about these things than you do.
That's the mark of a liberal with a chip on its shoulder.
Is that what you are?
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