Al-Queda relationship with Iran, not Iraq?... Attack Iran?

[freeflydrew 0]

That's part of this article... the other part is the claim/prediction that the US will strike Iran's nuclear facility before Russian fuel rods are delivered next year.

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This is little bits of the article...

"Iran gave free passage to up to 10 of the September 11 hijackers just months before the 2001 attacks and offered to co-operate with al-Qa'eda against the US, an American report will say this week.

The all-party report by the 9/11 Commission, set up by Congress in 2002, will state that Iran, not Iraq, fostered relations with the al-Qa'eda network in the years leading up to the world's most devastating terrorist attack.

The bipartisan commission has established that between eight and 10 of the September 11 hijackers, who had been based in Afghanistan, travelled through Iran between October 2000 and February 2001. The terrorists in question are believed to have been the "muscle" - hired to storm the aircraft cockpits and overpower crew and passengers.

Iranian officials were instructed not to harrass al-Qa'eda personnel as they crossed the border and, in some cases, not to stamp their passports.

"The report is expected to confirm the claim by Thomas Kean, its chairman, last month that "there were a lot more active [al-Qa'eda] contacts, frankly, with Iran and Pakistan, than there were with Iraq".

It will further inflame tensions between Washington and Teheran, where hardliners are threatening to restart its uranium enrichment programme, a key step towards building nuclear weapons.

A commission official, quoted in the latest edition of Time magazine, alleges that Iranian officials approached Osama bin Laden after the bombing of the USS Cole in 1999, proposing a joint strategy of attacks on US interests.

Some Bush officials are privately contemplating a possible military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities before Russian fuel rods are delivered next year."

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[tonyhays 86]

Israel may beat us to it. No way will they allow Iran to be a nuclear power. Iraq learned that the hard way.

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_iraq_1981.php

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

[pdj6p 0]

I guess we better just nuke the whole place and start over.

Death is so permanant, and I'm just not ready for that kind of committment.

[TheAnvil 0]

Iran is a foreign policy conundrum in many respects. I think any major policy moves with Iran upon initial proposal merit neither outright rejection nor gleeful embace. Their religious leaders are still insane zealots with a lot of power while the secular leaders are markedly more and more pro-western.

This will be an interesting problem for GWB/Cheney/Rice et al. Lot of independent variables (and dependent ones) with which to deal here.

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