The very one
HRH meets families at the Muslim Heritage Centre
Posted on 10/17/2005 1:06:14 AM PDT by chinditz
TEHRAN -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Britain yesterday of being behind weekend bombings that killed five people in Iran.
His comments reflected sharply escalating tension with the West, after the United States and Britain asserted last week that Iran had been involved in insurgent attacks in neighboring Iraq.
''We are very suspicious about the role of British forces in perpetrating such terrorist acts," the student news agency ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in reference to the two bombings Saturday in southwestern Iran.
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Hey Mahmoud...not a bad suggestion but, alas, I'm not running the show.
I think that's pretty much standard practice for the Iranian leadership. If you recall there were a series of bombings before the recent Iranian "elections" and they blamed those on the US and her allies too.
Whether it's actually still true or not, I think the Mullahs still believe they have a trump card to play in invoking the specter of Kim Roosevelt and American/British involvement in the 1953(?) Mossadeq coup.
The very one
HRH meets families at the Muslim Heritage Centre
I think someone needs to remind him of what happened to his namesake when he tried to overstep his bounds. I have a feeling that he doesn't understand the limits of his future office.
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October 16, 2005
Al-Qaeda chief sets up UK network
How do you think they carry out this recruitment? Do you think they appeal to the Qur'an and Sunnah and try to convince young Muslims that they have a religious responsibility to wage war for Islam? And what are the implications of that?
From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
THE head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq has established a new terror network in Britain which is recruiting young Muslim fanatics to fight coalition troops.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has recently set up the group to recruit and train would-be suicide bombers and gunmen, counter-terrorism officials have said.
The new group, Ansar al-Fath — Partisans of Victory — is an offshoot of Ansar al-Islam, an organisation that is to be banned under new anti-terror rules announced by Charles Clarke, the home secretary, last week.
Ansar al-Fath provides logistical support to foreign fighters in Iraq and uses the internet to find new recruits for Zarqawi.
Government officials say a “steady trickle” of about 70 young Muslim men have travelled to Iraq from Britain in the past two years.
They warn that some newly trained “professional jihadists” have returned here and may be planning attacks.
Posted at October 16, 2005 07:41 AM
ping.
Ping
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U.S. warns Iran over Iraq bomb attacks, Rice says-(bombings all around)
Reuters ^ | 10/16/05 | na
Posted on 10/17/2005 5:55:50 AM CDT by Flavius
LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The United States has issued a stern warning to Iran over the Islamic republic's possible involvement in helping insurgent bomb attacks in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
Washington has backed accusations from its closest ally Britain that there is evidence insurgents laying roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in southern Iraq might be using sophisticated technology linked to neighbouring Iran.
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LOL!
I'm sure Wales is just crestfallen over the assembly-line casualties at one of Iran's nasty little bomb-factories.
'Smatta, Mahmoud, one of your bomb boys get butterfingered? Too bad! Look at the "tracks of my tears"! I'm "all shook up"!
I tend to thinkl the Irainians are bombing their own people to blame the coalition. If they can and incite their population to anger against the coalition they can kill two birds with one stone.
I think Mahmoud and the mullahs had better back off their bad-boy act, or they're going to find out that our people don't regret nearly as much as they'd like us to, and that we still aren't too far off the form in starting the real stuff. Or maybe they could check with some of those Taliban muftis they've still got stashed at the Kerman Hilton.
Hey, if we're going to have the name, we might as well have the game.
If they want to keep screwing with the coalition's people in Iraq, they could wind up having a really bad day. Like losing their government in the morning, their air force in the afternoon, and most of the Pasdaran in the evening.
Just keep it up, Mahmoud.
'RIFT WITH WEST WIDENS AS...' blah, blah, blah. AS if Iran and the rest of the Middle bEAST want anything civil to do with the west...lol
"I tend to thinkl the Irainians are bombing their own people to blame the coalition. If they can and incite their population to anger against the coalition they can kill two birds with one stone."
Trash can bombs sound like dissention from the 'student' dissident population. These kinds of bombs have never been Britains style.
If this is Tit for Tat, why not? The Brits are pretty savvy about such stuff despite their status as an over-the-hill Empire.
Heavens! You could have gone all day without that!
(Actually, it was very clever.)
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