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| Iranian Recce Teams Busted in US, Elsewhere |
| 2004-12-19 |
| ...It came two days after DEBKA-Net-Weekly broke the story that Iranian and Iran-sponsored surveillance teams has been discovered hanging about outside Israel's diplomatic missions in the United States, South America, West Europe and the Middle East. Team members rounded up by the American FBI and Egyptian intelligence in the last ten days admitted under interrogation that they were collecting information for Iranian intelligence... DEBKA-Net-Weekly's counter-terrorism sources report that foreign intelligence services have been telling Israel since late November that Iranian spy teams have been spotted outside Israeli missions in various parts of the world, including one nabbed by the FBI watching Israeli consulates in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston. It was made up of Iranian Americans, Arab and Pakistani students - some of them US citizens, and all activists belonging to Muslim fundamentalist groups. They were perfectly aware that the data sent to Iranian intelligence was intended for use in hostage taking and bombing attacks against Israeli missions. The notion of Tehran-instigated terrorist strikes in the middle of America's main cities struck alarm in US intelligence agencies and Homeland Security department. Clearly, operations of this magnitude could not have been planned without top-level sanction from spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or without the presence in America of an operational network. Although assigned with striking Israeli consulates, there is nothing to stop this network from expanding its mission to American strategic targets as well. Of particular concern are the close ties evolving between Iranian intelligence and al Qaeda cells based inside the Islamic republic. US intelligence sources have learned that Khamenei in person has created a new clandestine umbrella organization for bringing together as an arm of his bureau all the al Qaeda-linked groups and likeminded movements... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Everyone in Congress in particular seems too concerned with making sure they can get Donald Rumsfeld to pay for their past decade and a half of bad decisions with regard to the defense budget. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-12-19 11:49:59 PM |
| #7 As far as the reconnaisance/saboteurs captured by the FBI, if and when hostilities commence, we should remember how we used to deal with them: The Nazi spies in Chicago. http://tinyurl.com/6ngop We wanted to win WWII. I'm not sure we want to win this war. We're more interested in having a sufficiently sensitive Secretary of War than in victory. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-12-19 10:34:27 PM |
| #6 I'm sure they are plotting as we are plotting. We will see little bits of data like this from time to time. We will have to run it through the sieves and anal-yzers to see what is real and what is posterior originated smoke. I am sure we have alot going on behind the scenes. Unfortunately we will hear nothing until it happens, which is good. We sure as hell shouldn't tell our senators, or that would be like talking into a megaphone. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-12-19 10:03:15 PM |
| #5 bin laden, with his al qaeda organization, proved to iran that there can be a way for islam to register a profound, worldwide effect. I believe that Iran thinks it can shore up the islamists under one umbrella. It has the money, it has the credibility (since it is a theocracy itself) and it has the will. With al qaeda in disrepair at the moment, Iran, I believe, feels it can assume the leadership position that is currently missing. No doubt they think they can do it better. All it needs to do is to gather a little intelligence, spew a little hatred, organize a little and voila! -- a newly invigorated, worldwide, islamist terror apparatus. I'll bet these guys just about drooling at the prospect of taking over for what bin laden started. And this evidence is just the tip of the iceberg. They simply got sloppy because they hate Israel soooo much, and their zeal made them easy to spot. I just wonder what else they're plotting. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-12-19 8:45:06 PM |
| #4 As far as the reconnaisance/saboteurs captured by the FBI, if and when hostilities commence, we should remember how we used to deal with them: The Nazi spies in Chicago. http://tinyurl.com/6ngop |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-12-19 6:43:49 PM |
| #3 I think you'll be happy in the end - I believe they'll be eating TLAMS when the time comes. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-19 6:17:17 PM |
| #2 This REALLY makes me mad. I know the timing is wrong...but I hope we are squeezing the nuts of the mada mullahs behind the scenes. I really want to see all of those black hats eat a 338 for breakfast. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-12-19 6:15:20 PM |
| #1 "Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit." -Ovid [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] tick... tock... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-19 5:08:28 PM |