Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Sat 04/01/2006 View Fri 03/31/2006 View Thu 03/30/2006 View Wed 03/29/2006 View Tue 03/28/2006 View Mon 03/27/2006 View Sun 03/26/2006
1
2006-04-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran planning al-Qaeda as a trump card for any war with the US
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-01 00:31|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Dan, is a copyright infringment to see the whole thang here at Rantburg News?

Posted by RD 2006-04-01 01:00||   2006-04-01 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 No US President would omit to neutralize a threat to the American homeland. Bush-Doctrine is based on pre-emption.
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-04-01 01:43||   2006-04-01 01:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect the Iranians are having to seriously re-evaluate their "unconventional force" allies. This is because I think they have already tried one international blow-up, to show how powerful Moslems are worldwide.

The cartoon debacle. They probably thought that by now, there would have been massive riots throughout the world, with cities burning, because of the cartoons.

Oop. That didn't work. So now that have to go directly to the militants in hope that *they* can do something against the West to cause chaos. For its part, al-Qaeda is probably concealing from them how badly damaged they really are--still blustering and bragging like they did to the Taliban, back in the day.

al-Qaeda, for its part, is caught between a rock and a sharp place. It has to agree to help the Iranians, or they will kick them out or kill them outright; so they are probably promising, insisting, that they can take on major targets and grab world headlines.

This means that sooner or later, most likely before any official hostilities, the Iranian will give the al-Qaeda a bunch of cash and tell them to go out there and create havoc. And having been lying through their teeth, al-Q will have to decide to run from the Iranians for the rest of their lives; or to get slaughtered first, and then run for the rest of their lives if they try to attack a western target.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-01 08:47||   2006-04-01 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Meanwhile, al-Qaeda Sunnis are slaughtering Shiites (and vice versa) in Iraq. But Islamic prophecy holds that the Mahdi (Savior) will rise in Khorassan (partly in Iran) and lead an army through Sunni territory - presumedly in unity - and defeat the Dajjal's (Anti-Christ) army in Arabia, prior to the end of days. Sunni-Shiite unity is best pre-empted. I love to disprove "prophecy."
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-04-01 09:52||   2006-04-01 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 RD: it's not the whole thang - just the whole teaser. You have to subscribe to see the whole thing.
Posted by xbalanke 2006-04-01 10:25||   2006-04-01 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Nothing like having a reliable allies.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-01 12:20||   2006-04-01 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 xbalanke,

yep, my writing styyle is locatr somewhere 'tween the MSM and al-Taqiyya.

/secrete
Posted by RD 2006-04-01 12:54||   2006-04-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 No more pretense about Al-Qaeda in Iran.
Posted by Captain America 2006-04-01 13:16||   2006-04-01 13:16|| Front Page Top

#9 All this time, I thought Hizbullah was trump. Al Qaeda seems more like the joker now anywho.
Posted by wxjames 2006-04-01 16:38||   2006-04-01 16:38|| Front Page Top

#10 If ever it was unclear with respect to Iran using terrorist proxies for smuggling a nuclear device into the United States, it is no longer. This, literally, unholy alliance should serve immediate notice to one and all of just how vital it is to catastrophically dismantle Iran's nuclear assets with all possible haste.

It is as if Iran, with its preposterously vitriolic rhetoric, has dug itself into a hole so deep whereby it is now easier for them to dig through to China than reverse course in any respect.

Any single one of their bellicose threats, be it nuclear attack, Semitic genocide or terrorist sponsorship in general each represent an ample casus belli. Lumped together, they are nothing less than a flat out declaration of war against America. We can no longer afford to ignore this. Bush needs to make an open case based upon these issues and proceed with military action against Iran.
Posted by Zenster 2006-04-01 20:26||   2006-04-01 20:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Check out this senior Sunni cleric, on the Iran Shiite threat. I tend to believe the Iran-al-Qaeda reports, which would put this cleric out of the loop. http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications161906&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-04-01 21:56||   2006-04-01 21:56|| Front Page Top

23:58 Jules
23:47 AlmostAnonymous5839
23:28 Frank G
23:22 3dc
23:19 3dc
23:14 Jan
23:13 trailing wife
23:10 3dc
23:07 Zenster
22:55 Frank G
22:54 Frank G
22:47 RWV
22:41 Zenster
22:37 Oldspook
22:35 Charles
22:34 Oldspook
22:32 Anonymoose
22:31 Jan
22:27 Zenster
22:27 Skidmark
22:19 Frank G
22:18 trailing wife
22:12 Frank G
22:10 Frank G









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com