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| Was Iran involved in 9/11? |
| 2011-10-02 |
| [Melanie Phillips] Back in 2008, when the terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was killed in Damascus by a car bomb, I referred in my blog to speculation that he had been involved with al Qaeda and may even have been involved with 9/11. This would have been remarkable, since Mughniyeh was the deputy head of Hezbollah, the killing arm of the regime in Shiite Iran. ... Now it appears that a law suit, brought by Ellen Saracini, the widow of the captain of one of the two planes that crashed into the Twin Towers, is about to make precisely this case in court, backed by a large amount of hitherto unknown secret intelligence information. According to the respected Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, who is also an expert witness due to be called to give evidence in this case, Saracini's legal team believe that this intelligence detailing the ties between al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Iran contains the smoking gun that ties Iran to 9/11. Read it all at the link. |
| Posted by:Chuck |
| #4 Iran’s Dirty 9/11 Secrets The page and a half section that made the final cut (see pages 240-241) details repeated trips to Iran by 8-10 of the “muscle” hijackers between October 2000 and February 2001. Flying in from Saudi Arabia, Damascus, and Beirut, the future hijackers were accompanied by “senior Hezbollah operatives” who were in fact agents of the Iranian regime. The information was so explosive that the CIA lobbied hard to get it expunged from the final report, in part because they had detected some of the movements as they were occurring but failed to appreciate their import. “They saw them as travel through Iran, not travel to Iran,” a senior 9/11 Commission staffer told me at the time. Put simply: • The Islamic Republic of Iran helped design the 9/11 plot; • provided intelligence support to identify and train the operatives who carried it out; • allowed the future hijackers to evade U.S. and Pakistani surveillance on key trips to Afghanistan where they received the final order of mission from Osama bin Laden, by escorting them through Iranian borders without passport stamps; • evacuated hundreds of top al Qaeda operatives from Afghanistan to Iran after the 9/11 just as U.S. forces launched their offensive; • provided safe haven and continued financial support to al Qaeda cadres for years after 9/11; • allowed al Qaeda to use Iran as an operational base for additional terror attacks, in particular the May 2003 bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-02 10:19 |
| #3 Not saying it isn't possible, but it seems just a bit convenient that these dead poor guys are directly connected to somebody with money that has been impounded by the US government, i.e. Iran. Suing anyone else would not turn up even one thin dime. But here, a win would turn over as much filthy lucre as the court orders. |
| Posted by: rammer 2011-10-02 10:11 |
| #2 Of course we all know that Iran and Iraq never had anything at all to do with Al-Q or 9/11! Why our betters on T.V. always tell is so - so it must be true. This must be more of that Islamiphobia right? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-10-02 09:40 |
| #1 Lawfare can be a good thing. Chuck, please keep us apprised as this story develops. Thank you! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-02 09:12 |