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2010-07-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Now Says Nuclear Scientist Was Double Agent

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Posted by tipper 2010-07-23 01:11|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...Was wondering if anybody over there has told Mr. Amiri that he'll be getting whacked soon by the 'CIA' in the form of guys who look a lot like Iranian security...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-07-23 02:10|| 2010-07-23 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Somehow, I doubt he was a double agent. That implies he was working for both sides.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-23 02:25|| 2010-07-23 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatever happends, this guy is a dead man. The Mullahs will have him killed, and the CIA made sure that would happen by telling them how "helpful" he had been for years.

My guess that, as a double agent, he was a bust for the Iranians. Never got close enough to intel of interest to them to even speculate on it, let alone get first hand observation.

We should do this with the Gitmo detainees too. Make a big production of thanking them, give them each a hundred large, and send them home 1st class. They'd all be dead in a week.

The Islamofascisti all think just like Joe Stalin. Better they kill them than risk any possible threat to the regime, however small.

Posted by B Dubya 2010-07-23 08:13|| 2010-07-23 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess that, as a double agent, he was a bust for the Iranians. Never got close enough to intel of interest to them to even speculate on it, let alone get first hand observation.

I don't think this was the Iranians' intent. Remember the politically disastrous CIA NIE from a few years back? I suspect he relayed all kinds of disinformation that the CIA lapped out of his hand in order to discredit W, probably to keep him out of their business. It also steered our ship in the wrong direction since then, getting us off the Iran's back for the last three years.

The only one going after him will be the CIA. Maybe.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-23 11:28|| 2010-07-23 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 probably to keep him out of their business

i.e.: The CIA used it to keep W out of the CIA's business. Of course, they would have done that willingly, ignoring that pesky little consequences of Iran having an easier time getting the bomb.

But hey, what's more important? Turf wars or the safety of the American people?

Posted by gorb 2010-07-23 11:31|| 2010-07-23 11:31|| Front Page Top

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