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The General vanishes
Its been more than two months since General Ali Reza Asgari, former deputy Defense Minister of Iran vanished into thin air in Istanbul two months ago, there have been numerous reports in the press speculating on how and why it happened. But mostly theres been silence. Suddenly, a new account appeared on a Persian language blog, which, if true, would mean that Asgari defected from Iran and applied for political asylum to the United States of his own free will, and utterly de-legitimize repeated attempts by the Iranian regime to suggest that he was somehow kidnapped. The account appeared promising. After all, it provided documentation something all of the rumors, speculation and anonymously sourced news stories havent provided until now. Theres just one problem the organizations whose documents these are meant to be, say they are fake. Either scenario is intriguing in its own right either one in which the documents are real, the denials are a cover-up and Asgaris defection is being kept top secret not only by the U.S. government, but by the United Nations. Or the alternative that somebody, for some reason, had enough interest in promoting a false tale of a deal and defection with the U.S. to go to the trouble of whipping up these falsified papers and feeding them to the Persian-language blogosphere. continued at link Posted by: ryuge 2007-05-15 |
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