MSNBC: U.S. secretly negotiating with Iran

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/946772.asp?0cv=CA01

The Bush administration is engaged in a secret dialogue with Iran to try to persuade Iran to hand over top al-Qaida operatives, U.S. officials tell NBC News .

THE THREE OPERATIVES are among the most wanted members of al-Qaida:
Abu Mussab al Zarqawi, an alleged poison expert who got medical treatment in Iraq.

Sa’ad Bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s third-oldest son who is believed to be planning new al-Qaida operations.

Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the al-Qaida spokesman famous for introducing bin Laden in a widely seen videotape after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Many U.S. officials believe that Iran is willing to turn them and other key al-Qaida operatives over to the United States or their home countries for a price: in exchange for members of an Iranian opposition group called the Mujahadeen al-Khalq, or MEK.

[gristy]

1. Not much of a secret, anymore, is it?

eom

[LibInternationalist]

2. Again?

[Rose Siding]

3. The Saudi's don't turn them over, they get the guest suite

but if it's Iran? Harboring terrorists, I reckon. Let's Roll!

[Shae]

4. And besides ...

They've got WMDs, they're probably hiding Saddam, and we gotta free the Irani people. Come on, it'll be a cakewalk.

[NNN0LHI]

5. I thought Bush didn't negotiate with terrorists, or those who harbor them?

I mean if we can do this with Iran, why didn't we do this with Iraq? Rummy and Cheney had a lot of experience dealing with Saddam.

Don

[Ouabache]

6. I guess we negotiate with nations that could

fight back if we invaded.

So the message that has been sent to the rest of the world by the first ever pre-emptive, first strike attack, invasion by the USA, assuming you don't count Grenada, is that they should start arming. BushCo has unified the world in starting up the arms race again, to protect themselves from him.

[Scimmio]

9. Maybe why Poindexter is leaving DARPA?

Perhaps he's 'resigning' to take another position. One in an area where the White House needs his special, um, expertise.

[InkAddict]

7. Daddy and the young Pups of War go way back

http://www.ibiblio.org/sullivan/CNN/RWR/ps174/icontra/ictimtxt.html

and beyond...

[Must_B_Free]

8. I think 'War on Terror' is such a tarbaby at this point

that they are going to try to make some quick symbolic nabs and call it over. Mission Complete. Bush is a hero.

[cap]

10. no surprise...we've got the Iran-Contra Team in place....

they've got the contacts with the Iranians from previous business dealings!

[dbt]

11. If al-Qaeda is so damned important

Why have we spent the last year (at least) expending lives and billions of dollars in a place that has no demonstrable links to al-Qaeda?!?!? That is, Iraq.

:wtf:
dbt