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| Clarke says Qods Force among al-Qaeda's chief backers |
| 2005-12-18 |
| Buried in the NYT promo of his book, lest someone claim that it's just the Bush administration that says this ... n Clarke's novel, the United States has declared victory in Iraq and pulled out, leaving in place a Shiite government that's a puppet of Iran. Distracted by Iraq, America has ignored the far more serious threat posed by Iran and its little-known Qods (or Jerusalem) Force, "the covert action arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps," which Clarke asserts (here and in his nonfiction) has long been among Al Qaeda's chief backers. "Washington did Tehran's work for them," one of his characters explains. "While all the American attention was focused on car bombs in Baghdad, the Iranians secretly built nuclear weapons while denying it and tricking the Europeans and Americans into thinking that they were five years away from a bomb." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 the Iranians secretly built nuclear weapons while denying it and tricking the Europeans and Americans into thinking that they were five years away from a bomb. Yeah - big secret only to obtuse brains like Clarke. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-18 04:31 |