Tuesday, March 21, 2006
U.S. Officials Claim Iran Is Helping Al-Qaeda
The administration needs to establish ties between Iran and Al-Qaeda if they are to be able to successfully promote the necessity of war with the Islamic Republic.
It would be even better to accuse the Iranians of participating in 9-11.
From today's Los Angeles Times:
Only by the fucked up standards of 21st century U.S. intelligence analysis (and nowhere else in the world of spookdom) can someone extrapolate from no evidence whatsoever that an "imminent" threat is brewing.
One can prudently consider the worst when you don't have all the facts. That's what footnotes in intelligence analyses are for.
But to plan a military attack or other disruptions of the international system based solely upon masturbatory fantasies about worst case scenarios is a whole other level of incompetence that
we've not proven to be immune to in recent years.
The remainder of the propaganda piece details a rogue's regiment of Al-Qaeda operatives that the U.S. claims are hiding in Iran.
Leaving aside the obvious non sequitur of Shiite Iran giving voluntary sanctuary to shit-disturbing Wahabists, one wonders why--if true--this would amount to a casus belli against Iran.
On the lunatic fringe, there is a blog calling for the United States to spill it's blood so that a bunch of jerk-off Iranian ex-pats can go back home to a "Free-Iran."
Part of their hook is their claim that Osama bin-Laden was sheltered by the Iranian Mullahs before his death.
Does that make anybody want to immediately head off to the recruiting station? I didn't think so.
That's why we see today's piece in the Los Angeles Times.
L.A. being the home of perhaps the loudest bunch of Iranian expatriates in the USA.
Must be one of them "coincidences."
It would be even better to accuse the Iranians of participating in 9-11.
From today's Los Angeles Times:
U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of Al Qaeda leaders residing in the country.
Some officials, citing evidence from highly classified satellite feeds and electronic eavesdropping, believe the Iranian regime is playing host to much of Al Qaeda's remaining brain trust and allowing the senior operatives freedom to communicate and help plan the terrorist network's operations.
And they suggest that recently elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be forging an alliance with Al Qaeda operatives as a way to expand Iran's influence or, at a minimum, that he is looking the other way as Al Qaeda leaders in his country collaborate with their counterparts elsewhere...
To some U.S. intelligence officials, what worries them most is what they don't know.
"I don't need to exaggerate the difficulty in determining what these people are up to at any given moment," the intelligence official said.
The U.S. counter-terrorism official was more blunt. "We don't have any intelligence going on in Iran. No people on the ground," he said. "It blows me away the lack of intelligence that's out there."
Only by the fucked up standards of 21st century U.S. intelligence analysis (and nowhere else in the world of spookdom) can someone extrapolate from no evidence whatsoever that an "imminent" threat is brewing.
One can prudently consider the worst when you don't have all the facts. That's what footnotes in intelligence analyses are for.
But to plan a military attack or other disruptions of the international system based solely upon masturbatory fantasies about worst case scenarios is a whole other level of incompetence that
we've not proven to be immune to in recent years.
The remainder of the propaganda piece details a rogue's regiment of Al-Qaeda operatives that the U.S. claims are hiding in Iran.
Leaving aside the obvious non sequitur of Shiite Iran giving voluntary sanctuary to shit-disturbing Wahabists, one wonders why--if true--this would amount to a casus belli against Iran.
On the lunatic fringe, there is a blog calling for the United States to spill it's blood so that a bunch of jerk-off Iranian ex-pats can go back home to a "Free-Iran."
Part of their hook is their claim that Osama bin-Laden was sheltered by the Iranian Mullahs before his death.
Does that make anybody want to immediately head off to the recruiting station? I didn't think so.
That's why we see today's piece in the Los Angeles Times.
L.A. being the home of perhaps the loudest bunch of Iranian expatriates in the USA.
Must be one of them "coincidences."
