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| Is Iran culpable in 9/11? It 'knew about terror attacks before they happened, trained hijackers |
| 2011-05-21 |
| Iran knew about 9/11 before it happened and helped train hijackers, court papers say. For brevity's sake, name the Muslim entities who didn't know beforehand about the 9/11 atrocity. Lawyers representing September 11th victims' families claim new evidence shows Iranian officials assisted in training hijackers and had advanced word of the attacks. There is 'clear and convincing' evidence for damages and a federal judge should find Iran culpable in the terror attacks, according to papers filed in Manhattan, New York. Three defectors from Iran's intelligence service testified they worked in positions giving them access to sensitive information about Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism, the lawyers said. The testimony supports a claim that Iranian officials had advanced word of the attacks and that Iran helped train those who carried it out, they allege. Iran has not responded to the lawsuit - first filed in Washington D.C. and transferred to New York. The Shiite regime in Iran and Sunni group Al Qaeda are natural enemies, though they have had a relationship of convenience based on their shared hatred of the U.S. The lawyers said Iran and 'its proxy terrorist organization', the Lebanese group Hezbollah, entered into a terrorist alliance with Al Qaeda in the early 1990s. This continued throughout the preparations for the 2001 attacks, they allege. They said Iran and Hezbollah gave material support to Al Qaeda after the attacks by helping some of the terrorist group's leaders and their families escape from the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. The lawyers are filing videotaped testimony under seal which show three defectors from Iran's intelligence service 'circumstantially and directly' implicate Iran and Hezbollah in 9/11. Iran and Hezbollah had 'foreknowledge of, and complicity in, the overall design of, and preparations for, the 9/11 attacks, involving, but not limited to, facilitation of the hijackers' international travel, training and through Iran provision of safe haven for Al Qaeda after the attacks,' the lawyers wrote. They said the unidentified witnesses also provided testimony revealing that then-senior Hezbollah operative Imad Mughniyah had an integral role in the Iran-Hezbollah-Al Qaeda terror alliance. One of the witnesses testified that Iran anticipated a retaliatory strike against Iran if its role in the 9/11 attacks was discovered. Mughniyah died in a car bombing in 2008. The lawyers said it was necessary to file the testimony under seal because the witnesses have reason to fear for the safety of themselves and their families if the testimony became public. News of the lawsuit comes almost three weeks after Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces at his compound in Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Zebulon Thranter9685 |
| #3 no, the current admin won't act! |
| Posted by: chris 2011-05-21 22:52 |
| #2 I'm sure the data being gone through from Osama Bin Ladin's house will provide more information about more guilty parties than anything we've seen so far. I just wonder if the current administration will actually ACT on that information. Somehow, I doubt it. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-05-21 21:44 |
| #1 Pak army and Saudis also knew! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2011-05-21 12:41 |