In article <tMKdndZ8ZLfyfSfYnZ2dnUVZ_t3in...@pghconnect.com>,
play...@always.edu (Doug Bashford) wrote:

Neolibertarian said about:
Re: Where'd Those Ground-to-Air Missiles Come From? Are
Iraqi's Neighbors Joining in the Fun?

In article <1169836540.683745.164...@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
"mg" <mgkel...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Sunni Arab guerrillas used some sort of surface to air rocket or
missile to shoot down a Blackwell helicopter guarding a high-level =

ground convoy. This downing of a helicopter is the second such atta=

in the past few days. Does it indicate that the guerrillas have man=

to buy supplies of more sophisticated shoulder-held missiles?

They are so few, prolly not.You've counted?

Or, are more insurgents coming across the border carrying their own
missiles? Is this a case of the more the merrier? Are we luring eno=

insurgents into Iraq yet?

Probably. And we always have been.

Wanna Hell scenario? Attack Iran.

Very good. But, of course, you have no idea what you're talking about.
You're just repeating something you thought you heard.

That's okay. In this instance you're correct enough.

On July 26th 2001, a man named Reza Zakeri walked into the CIA station
in Azerbaijan. He claimed to be a senior security officer with Iran's
MOIS, Section 110. He suspected that he had fallen out of favor with
MOIS Ministry administrators and wished to defect. In the next few days
of his debriefing at a CIA safe house in the area, he claimed to have
knowledge of an impending attack by Iranian terrorists who had been
trained as pilots and were heading to the United States to hijack and
fly commercial airliners into American targets.

Which targets?

Zakeri related that in a basement office at MOIS headquarters, were
blown up photos of the World Trade Center, the White House, and scale
models of the the Capitol, the Pentagon, and Camp David. He believed
that these were the targets for the pilots.

When were these attacks supposed to take place?

20 Shahrivar he said. The CIA Farsi interpreter mistakenly translated
this date as September 10. After the attacks, the translation was
revisited, and it turns out that 20 Shahrivar is actually September 11.

As head of security for MOIS operations, it was Zakeri's job to set up
security arrangements for meetings and travel of IRG officers and top
government officials. He claimed that he had handled security for a
meeting between Sa'ad Bin Laden and Hashemi Rafsanjani (Head of IRI
Exigency Council), and another between Bin Laden's son and the Supreme
Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Several of these meetings took place during the year preceding the 9/11
attacks. On occasion, according to Zakeri, these meetings included Ayman
al-Zawahiri, "deputy commander" of so-called "al-Qaeda" and founder of
Egyptian al-Jihad.

For whatever reasons, CIA admits that their debriefings with Zakeri took
place in Azerbaijan, but they dismiss(ed) him as an unreliable
informant. He failed his polygraph test, for instance.

The implications of this meeting are so far reaching that you've never
even heard about them. Which is the way it usually goes.

We don't live in a democracy, thank God.

At any rate, there's more. Far more. Perhaps much more than an Usenet
illiterate would be willing to plow through.

Since Operation: Enduring Freedom, Iran has often revealed her hand:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8330976/

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06085/676210.stm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0728/p01s02-wome.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p01s04-woiq.html

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030610-125659-6237r.htm

http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/01/iran_and_alqaeda_in.php

http://english.aljazeera.net/News/archive/archive?ArchiveId=3D16191

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603474/posts

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=3D110005237

http://newsblaze.com/story/20060511224435nnnn.nb/topstory.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87778,00.html

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/09/25/us.iraq.alqaeda/

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/22/alqaeda.iran/index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5479438/site/newsweek/

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/58/18570

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-turns-attention-to-alqaeda-in-ira...
06/03/21/1142703358742.html

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3D7191

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,228636,00.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-10-alqaeda-iraq_x.htm

http://www.nysun.com/article/39631

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3D5571

http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/al%20qaedas%20link%20to%20other%20c...
ries/al_qaeda%20Iran%20Tie.htm

http://rapidrecon.threatswatch.org/2007/01/evidence-iran-supporting-a...
/

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/zarqawi.htm

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21060403-38201,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1572812,00.html

http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EJ17Ak02.html

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-08/05/content_252257.htm

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3D1698

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/24/iran.qaeda/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87500,00.html

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040722-115444-6101r.htm

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040720-120945-3551r.htm

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=3D527

http://www.richardminiter.com/pdf/articles/20041027-art-washtimes.pdf

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200208/29/eng20020829_102261.shtml

http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/007418.php

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=3DN2ViMTQ1NTllMjAxZDVmNjg3ZjIyMWRl...
OWE3N2M=3D

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/20388

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/commentary/newsblogs/stakelbeckonterror/06...
.aspx

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Iran+Amok%3B+Tehran+plays+host+to+al+Qa...
a0143832717

http://www.inblogs.net/glenngreenwald/2006/09/is-iran-most-active-sta...
ponsor-of.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/17/attack/main568723.shtml

http://www.kentimmerman.com/2004_02_04iran-defector.htm

Which just goes to demonstrate that America is willing to allow Iran to
play the proxy game.

Which is why the US invaded Iraq in the first place.

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Although it is largely a favorable biography of Zarqawi and his
movement, Hussein incorporates the insights of other Al Qaeda
membersnotably, Saif al-Adl, the security chief.

It is chilling to read this work and realize how closely recent events
seem to be hewing to Al Qaedas forecasts. Based on interviews with
Zarqawi and Adl, Hussein claims that dragging Iran into conflict with
the United States is key to Al Qaedas strategy. Expanding the area of
conflict in the Middle East will cause the U.S. to overextend its
forces. According to Hussein, Al Qaeda believes that Iran expects to be
attacked by the U.S., because of its interest in building a nuclear
weapon. Accordingly, Iran is preparing to retaliate for or abort this
strike by means of using powerful cards in its hand, he writes. These
tactics include targeting oil installations in the Persian Gulf, which
could cut off sixty per cent of the worlds oil supplies, destabilizing
Western economies.

In an ominous passage, Hussein notes that for fifteen yearsor since the
end of the first Gulf WarIran has been busy building a secret global
army of highly trained personnel and the necessary financial and
technological capabilities to carry out any kind of mission. He is
clearly referring to Hezbollah, which has so far focussed its attention
on Israel. According to Hussein, Iran has identified American and Jewish
targets around the world. This secret army is led by two professional
Lebanese men who have pledged full allegiance to Iran and who hold
enough of a grudge against the Americans to qualify them to inflict
damage on Jewish and American interests around the world.

Iran, he continues, has been cultivating good relations with other
Palestinian resistance groups, including Hamas. Iran views these parties
as its entrenched wings in occupied Palestine, Hussein writes, asserting
that the peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians at the Egyptian
resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh in February, 2005, were secretly aimed at
countering Iranian influence on the Palestinian resistance. Al Qaeda
interpreted this as the first step toward launching an attack on Iran,
Hussein claims. Both the U.S. and Israel view Hezbollah, the Islamist
group in Lebanon, as a creature of the Iranian state, and are intent on
eliminating it. The military campaign against Iran will begin when the
United States and Israel succeed in disarming Hezbollah, Hussein
predicts.

Hussein claims, without offering evidence, that Iran already has thirty
thousand intelligence agents in Iraq. Since the Americans have not
succeeded in eliminating the Sunni resistance, how can they deal with
the situation if the Shiites join the resistance? Iran plans to incite
its proponents in Iraq to join the anti-U.S. resistance in the event
that the United States or Israel launches an attack on Iran. Iran plans
to open its border to the resistance and provide it with what it needs
to achieve a swift and major victory against the Americans. Al Qaeda, he
writes, also expects the Americans to go after Irans principal ally in
the region, Syria. The removal of ...

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