Posted on 09/15/2009 3:11:33 PM PDT by nuconvert
Month and a half after plan to blow up tallest skyscraper in world exposed, 45 more suspects arrested in addition to eight arrested when plot unraveled. Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese among those detained. Iran suspected to be mastermind behind plot
Roee Nahmias
09.15.09 / Israel News
The defense apparatus in the United Arab Emirates arrested 45 suspects, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese, after the plot to blow up Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) was uncovered. Dubai Tower, currently under construction, is the tallest building in the world.
The current wave of arrests adds to the eight other suspects detained immediately after the plot was revealed one and a half months ago. The detainees were apparently sent as agents of Iran.
Kuwaiti newspaper, al-Jareeda, reported a month and a half ago that UAE security officials arrested "an armed network affiliated with one of the countries in the region that operated on Ras al-Khaimah." Dubai was apparently hesitant to say so explicitly, but the implication was towards Iran as the responsible party for the terror network.
Ras al-Khaimah was is the northern-most emirate in the United Arab Emirates and borders the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, both of which run parallel to Iran
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“The truth is, Palestinians tried to take over Jordan, until the king killed over 10,000 of them. Then they took over Lebanon and destroyed that “Paris of the East.” Israel invaded but was prevented from destroying those thugs fully. They have cheered Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Their mentality is a decease, which shows itself now in Dubai of all places.”
Did you see any non-stop media coverage of Kuwait kicking out all its Palestinians as retribution for supporting Hussein? ... Me neither
Tolik, I have not heard it mentioned by the media even once.
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