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Cheney does not see close ties between Iran, al-Qaeda
Save this one, the Looney Left is going to keep bringing it up again later ...US Vice President Dick Cheney has said he does not believe there are close relations between Iran and Al-Qaeda, seeming to distance himself from some earlier US administration charges. "I think you've got to remember that the Al-Qaeda organization is primarily made up of radical Sunni Islamists, of course, and the Iranian regime is Shia-dominated -- Shia. So there's not a natural fit there," Cheney said in a telephone interview with the Hugh Hewitt Show, released by the White House. "That doesn't mean that there haven't been relationships over the years, but I don't believe it's close. I haven't seen any evidence of that," Cheney added on the heels of new broadcast threats by Osama bin Laden. The George W. Bush administration on several occasions has accused Iran of supporting terrorism and Al-Qaeda. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-01-21 |
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