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International
How Iran got on the US poop list
2002-02-04
  • Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld accused Iran of helping Taliban and al Qaeda fighters flee a U.S. military assault on Afghanistan. "We have any number of reports that Iran has been permissive and allowed transit through their country of al Qaeda," he said on ABC's "This Week." "There isn't any doubt in my mind but that the porous border between Iran and Afghanistan has been used for al Qaeda and Taliban to move into Iran and find refuge, and that the Iranians have not done what the Pakistan government has done, [which is to] put troops along the border and prevent terrorists from escaping out of Afghanistan into their country," he said.

    Citing sources in Herat, Time magazine said that shortly before the city fell to opposition forces in November, some 250 senior Taliban and al Qaeda fighters fled off-road in a convoy of 50 vehicles, crossing into Iran. They made their escape after a high-ranking Iranian official, connected to Ayatollah Khameini, had been dispatched to to offer secret sanctuary to Taliban and al Qaeda fugitives.
    That and the Karine A and the Hezbollah chest thumping in southern Lebanon pretty much add up to severe US displeasure.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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