Freeh: Iranians behind Khobar towers bombing

[GRClarkesq]

Freeh Links Iran To Khobar Bombing
Tehran Directed Attack, He Says
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 19, 2003; Page A20

Former FBI director Louis Freeh testified yesterday that he believed there was "overwhelming evidence" that senior Iranian government officials financed and directed the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13462-2003Dec18.html

[Junkdrawer]

1. Oh Damn. Here we go...

Looks like Iran is next in the crosshairs. :scared:

[spinbaby]

3. I was betting on Syria

But I suppose they decided Iran would make a nice package with Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Junkdrawer]

5. I was thinking Syris too, but Iran was in the "Axis of Evil"...

so it's not like we weren't warned.

[htuttle]

2. Previously, they were sure that al Queda was behind the bombing

Now, they say there is overwhelming evidence that someone else did it.

I am underwhelmed.

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[barbaraann]

6. Retribution for this:

http://news.yahoo.com/?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=10&u=/afp/iran_iraq_us_saddam

[Muddleoftheroad]

7. Or possibly

Iran just backed terror. Lord knows they do it often enough.

[Capt_Nemo]

8. Not as often though

as the US backs murderous dictators.

And if you think that's a thing of the past, just do a little research
on Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov.

"Why do they hate us?"

Why, indeed...

[GermanDJ]

13. And not just Uzbekistan

Azerbaijan is even worse, as far as I know:

http://www.hrw.org/europe/azerbaijan.php
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/azerbaijan/Azer0799-04.htm#P237_50624

And people like James Baker III, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle and many more are members of the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. Cheap oil is again more important than human life (just remember what Mr. Bush said recently about 'mistakes of the past' *ROFLMAO*.

It becomes even weirder when you think about why Iran is no democracy today:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

There is a strong pro-modernization movement in Iran right now, but they lose influence now as the sabre-rattling of the US gets louder.

[Voltaire99]

19. Or possibly not

In terms of measurable loss of life and property, Iran pales by comparison to US export of terror.

[Judi Lynn]

21. Excellent article. Thank you, barbaraann. n/t

[barbaraann]

22. You're welcome.

There is so much revenge and retribution from the BFEE it's hard to keep up, though.

[GRClarkesq]

9. Freeh implicates Hezbollah

which is just an extension of the Iranian foreign ministry, or as some Iranians I know state, Hezbollah is the foreign ministry of Iran. Per Freeh, the actual bombers were members of Saudi Hezbollah who carried out an attack sanctioned and supported by Iranian/government Hezbollah officials in Iran.

[htuttle]

12. The only mention of a Hezbollah attack outside Lebanon/Israel...

...that I've found is that there appears to be some Hezbollah involvement in the recent bombings in Turkey.

However, the Findlaw article I found cached at Google about it states that the group in Turkey is a different Hezbollah than the one in Lebanon.

Is there any real evidence that 'actual' Hezbollah has been active outside of the Lebanonese border or Israel? I looked for some, but could find no mention of an attack outside that region that they'd either claimed credit for, or taken the blame for (outside of the incidents, possibly blamed on a different Hezbollah, in Turkey described above).

[Aidoneus]

20. No

"Turkish Hizbullah" was once an arm of the fascist military regime in Turkey to undercut the revolution in occupied-northern Kurdistan, but after their use ran out they started to run amok in ways that weren't intended. Supposedly Iran backs them and they supposedly desire an Islamic state in northern Kurdistan, but all they seem to do is attack leftists or kidnap rich businessmen.

Contrary to some sloppy US-Israeli propaganda, the Lebanese Hizbullah movement does not carry out operations outside of Lebanon (some business & financial , all above ground as far as I know). The closest thing that I can think of (which doesn't count) would be a single martyr operation carried out against a column of Israeli-SLA occupation forces right on the border with northern Israel, deep inside occupied territory (this was in the 90s, when the zionist regime occupied and terrorized all of Lebanon routinely, and with impunity aside from the Islamic Resistance), but that's it.

Some rightwing fringe (bordering on fascist) US/Israeli propagandists have tried to pin the Cole & Khobar events on Lebanese Hizbullah & Iran for years, but both events keep coming back to indigenous Yamani & Arabian movements who are opposed to their government's quisling collaboration and subordination to American dictates.

There is a longer version I can go into about Hizbullah's history, something of an interest of mine.

[xchrom]

10. syria -- iran -- iran -- syria

oh who, oh who to invade next?

[leetrisck]

11. And where has Mr. Freeh been?

Was he just too, too busy with the Republicans investigating Clinton and doing their little set-up.

[loudnclear]

14. Now that Saddam is gone...who will be the next boogey-man?

I thought it was al-qaeda who responsible for that bombing?

[arcane1]

15. al Qaeda will still be occasionally responsible, just depends...

when they want to paint Clinton as 'soft on terror' they'll go back, briefly, to saying it was al Qaeda

[denverbill]

16. What a waste of time.

The Iranian govt won't ever pay damages, that's for damned sure. If the govt is ever toppled, the US govt will deny them the damage awards just like they did with the Gulf War I pow's.

Interesting though. The Clinton bashers always say Clinton should have gone after bin Laden harder after he bombed the barracks. I'm sure the fact that Freeh testified under oath that they weren't responsible won't change the freepers minds.

[Hobarticus]

17. How much did Rove pay you for that?

You're out of work for a reason. And the seeds of 9/11 were planted and thriving on your watch. Go away, incompetant fool. Your new show on Faux is waiting.

[MoonAndSun]

18. Is this the same Louis Freeh who was way too busy trying

to assign as many FBI agents to investigate Bill Clinton's private parts? Louis Freeh should be held accountable for Sept. 11 as much as any of the others involved in this enormous tragedy.

[yellowcanine]

23. Yep, same guy, also

could not find any involvement by Carl Rove in the mailing of a debate video to Al Gore's campaign during the 2000 election, even though it had all of the fingerprints of a Rove operation.