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2003-12-19 Iran

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Posted by Steve 2003-12-19 11:18:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 is somebody winding up another clock?
interesting, indeed!

Posted by B 2003-12-19 11:33:31 AM|| 2003-12-19 11:33:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 especially since Assad seems a bit more compliant these days.

Posted by B 2003-12-19 11:35:00 AM|| 2003-12-19 11:35:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bigger Fish to Fry maybe. AQ = rogue punks. Iran = nest of terrorist coordinating, passport faking, car bomb institutes with chow lines and dormitory houseing.

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-19 11:36:32 AM|| 2003-12-19 11:36:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I know it's the WaPo, but why do they have to include this little disclaimer supposedly of Freeh's at the end that Al Queda didn't have a role in this act of SA terrorism?
Where's Freeh going with this? That we're going after the wrong guys or what?
That Islamist terrorist groups don't work together and trade off doing attacks?
Also, let's not forget that Hezbollah was behind the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, too.
I'm sure the Marines with their boots on the ground in Iraq haven't forgotten either bombing, either.
Heheh.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-19 4:00:25 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-19 4:00:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 #5 During his tenure as director of the Bureau, Louis Freeh spent more time on the Khobar Towers bombing than any other single issue. That's a fact. The Iranian connection -- as I recall -- also involved an association between between Hani al-Sayegh (one of the suspects) and the Iranian MOIS (to include Ali Fallahian). The training, suuposedly, was conducted by the IRGC Quds Force at a camp near Qom in Iran and logistics were facilitated by and smuggled into S.A. with the assistance of the Lebanese Hizballah (Iran's long-time client group (since 1982, in fact). All of this has been published -- a bit here, a bit there -- over time but those are major linkages. Alos, recall that during that timeframe (1996), was when Iran intially established their policy of supporting Gulf Hizballah groups (Saudi, Kuwaiti, Bahraini) in order to destabilize those regimes. What is interesting is that prior to the attack at Khobar in June, a conference was held in Tehran attended by a rep from Al-Qaeda, the Egyptian Gama'a and IJ groups and the Lebanese Hizballah where allegedly the groups agreed to support each other (in word) which was a big breakthrough owing to the fact that this body included both Shia and Sunni adherents. A communique from this meeting was issued under the name of the Movement for Islamic Change. Following the June 1996 Khobar bombing, one of the claimers for the attack was made in the name of the Islamic Change Movement. Coincidence? Probably not. My take is that Saudi Hizballah did Khobar (just as the former director asserts), that the Iranian mullahs facilitated the operations through the use of their security organs and the Lebanese group, and that some support (mostly $$$) to "set in" the "shooters" in safehouses, do final prep them and to try to hide them/exfiltrate after the op was accomplished with money from channels either controlled by or utilized by Bin Laden (hence his connection...in addition to him praising the attack). Of course, we don't know much, because the Saudis did not provide access to those apprehended and blamed for the attacks (before they lopped off their heads) lest the royal family be embarrassed that they did handle business properly. Not much has changed except for the fact that today that hide the fact that they got a BIG problem. Back then, they still were able sing the Egyptian river song, "I'm in De-Nile." Haha. That cracks me up everytime. In any event...that's it....for what it's worth.

Posted by TerrorHunter4Ever 2003-12-19 4:59:07 PM|| 2003-12-19 4:59:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Days before the attack on Khobar - Iran began/staged large scale military manuevers. Freeh knows what he is talking about.

Posted by JP 2003-12-19 10:30:51 PM|| 2003-12-19 10:30:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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