Journalist Gareth Porter reports:
For many years, major U.S. institutions ranging from the Pentagon to the 9/11 Commission have been pushing the line that Iran secretly cooperated with Al Qaeda both before and after the 9/11 terror attacks. But the evidence for those claims remained either secret or sketchy, and always highly questionable.
In early November, however, the mainstream media claimed to have its "smoking gun"—a CIA document written by an unidentified Al Qaeda official and released in conjunction with 47,000 never-before-seen documents seized from Osama bin Laden's house in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
[..] But none of those media reports were based on any careful reading of the document's contents. The 19-page Arabic-language document, which was translated in full for TAC, doesn't support the media narrative of new evidence of Iran-Al Qaeda cooperation, either before or after 9/11, at all. It provides no evidence whatsoever of tangible Iranian assistance to Al Qaeda. On the contrary, it confirms previous evidence that Iranian authorities quickly rounded up those Al Qaeda operatives living in the country when they were able to track them down, and held them in isolation to prevent any further contact with Al Qaeda units outside Iran.
What it shows is that the Al Qaeda operatives were led to believe Iran was friendly to their cause and were quite taken by surprise when their people were arrested in two waves in late 2002. It suggests that Iran had played them, gaining the fighters' trust while maximizing intelligence regarding Al Qaeda's presence in Iran.
Full article is well worth reading, a great deal of detail is provided.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 24 2017, @03:48AM (6 children)
Odd, isn't it, that we are best friends with the most backward, and most oppressive, of all of the Arabic/middle eastern nations?
Actually, we should ally with Iran, for the purpose of overthrowing the House of Saud. WTF we helping Saudi Arabia for? SA is such a shithole, that the most radical offshoots of Islam originated there. Or, do you think that the world needs more Salaafists?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 24 2017, @05:02AM
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I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @04:51PM (4 children)
It's not odd in the least when you realize that the shit stain in chief has a lot of business interests there.
FUCK YOU TRUMP, AND FUCK YOU EVERYONE THAT VOTED FOR THE PIECE OF SHIT!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 24 2017, @05:09PM (2 children)
Once again, AC shows himself to be clueless. The US government has been pretty closely allied with SA for damned near forever. Carter maintained close relations all those decades ago when I was in the Navy, but he didn't even establish those relations. Read more here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_States_relations [wikipedia.org]
Ever since the modern U.S.-Saudi relationship began in 1945, the U.S. has been willing to overlook many of the kingdom’s more controversial aspects as long as it kept the oil flowing and supported U.S. national security policies.[2] Since World War II, the two countries have been allied in opposition to Communism, in support of stable oil prices, stability in the oil fields and oil shipping of the Persian Gulf, and stability in the economies of Western countries where Saudis have invested.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @02:17AM (1 child)
Once again, in a seemingly infinite series of such, Runaway proves himself to be clueless, even when he is right on occasion. Oh, dear, how long do we have to put up with the observations of the Arkansas Hillbilly?
Signed: AC, you bastard.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 25 2017, @02:51AM
Hey retard - if you were born in Zimbabwe, and then traveled around for a couple decades, and finally bought a home in Egypt - would that make you Egyptian? One more time: I'm not an Arkansan.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 24 2017, @05:18PM
Speaking of shitstains in chief, watch Obama kissing King Salman's ass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY [youtube.com] You're going to pretend that Obama wasn't in bed with SA?