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Obama administration says there is an Iran-Al-Qaeda link

  • 05-08-2011 11:00am
    #1
    long journey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    This was long debated, because of the Shiite-Sunni rift, but now the US Treasury says they are working together.
    http://bit.ly/pdhEvW
    Actually, this is not surprising, since Iran has been financing and arming Sunni Hamas for years. But still, this is the most serious and clear accusation to date by US officials as to the cooperation between Iran and al-Qaeda.


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  • #2
    DJCR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭DJCR


    long journey wrote: »
    This was long debated, because of the Shiite-Sunni rift, but now the US Treasury says they are working together.
    http://bit.ly/pdhEvW
    Actually, this is not surprising, since Iran has been financing and arming Sunni Hamas for years. But still, this is the most serious and clear accusation to date by US officials as to the cooperation between Iran and al-Qaeda.

    Hmm, are things really this bad for Obama that he's going to have to go to war to stay in power?


  • #3
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    DJCR wrote: »
    Hmm, are things really this bad for Obama that he's going to have to go to war to stay in power?

    My thoughts exactly, apparently this is going to be a black friday. The markets have really reacted positively to the ceiling being raised, haven't they?


  • #4
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    This is some hilarious nonsense right there. Al Qaeda hate Shia's, as we saw from the numerous attacks in Iraq. For the US government to make this claims, destroys whats left of its credibility. Sorry, but I don't believe a single word of the US governments claims here, especially considering past claims about Al Qaeda links to Iraq, that turned out to be utter nonsense as well.


  • #5
    long journey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭long journey


    wes wrote: »
    This is some hilarious nonsense right there. Al Qaeda hate Shia's, as we saw from the numerous attacks in Iraq. For the US government to make this claims, destroys whats left of its credibility. Sorry, but I don't believe a single word of the US governments claims here, especially considering past claims about Al Qaeda links to Iraq, that turned out to be utter nonsense as well.

    Of course al-Qaeda hates Shias (and it's not as if the Iranian regime has many nice things to say about Wahhabism...); what Washington is saying here is that they both also hate America and are even willing to cooperate against their common enemy.


  • #6
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    long journey wrote: »
    Of course al-Qaeda hates Shias (and it's not as if the Iranian regime has many nice things to say about Wahhabism...); what Washington is saying here is that they both also hate America and are even willing to cooperate against their common enemy.

    I highly doubt that to be honest. Similar things were said vis a vi Iraq, and I find this new claims equally hard to believe.


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  • #7
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    They want that country so bad they can taste it.

    Perhaps it will fall into their hands like a ripe peach as Cuba did(nt).


  • #8
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    wes wrote: »
    I highly doubt that to be honest. Similar things were said vis a vi Iraq, and I find this new claims equally hard to believe.

    Fool me once, shame on you.. fool me twice....... something something.


  • #9
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Fool me once, shame on you.. fool me twice....... something something.

    If only that were true on a national level, unfortunately half of that country like the taste of blood too much to let a good war past them.


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    RichieC wrote: »
    If only that were true on a national level, unfortunately half of that country like the taste of blood too much to let a good war past them.

    The US media failed the people of the US imo when it came to invading Iraq.


  • #11
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    Iran funded Kurdish separatists in Iraq - despite the fact that Iran had its own Kurdish separatists. Dont put it past them


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  • #12
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    The US media failed the people of the US imo when it came to invading Iraq.

    It didn't fail, it done exactly as it was designed to do.


  • #13
    FISMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA


    matthew8 wrote: »
    My thoughts exactly, apparently this is going to be a black friday. The markets have really reacted positively to the ceiling being raised, haven't they?

    No. The markets tanked when they announced the debt ceiling was raised. They rebounded on the news by the Fed that they would keep interest rates low, and again they tanked today. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

    The markets are futures. Nothing was cut in the "cuts" that preceded the lifting of the debt ceiling. Rather, caps were placed on future spending.

    This second dip (on Wednesday 10/8) is concerning.


  • #14
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Max Keiser: A false flag terrorist attack will occur in the US in 3 months. (Precipitating in a major conflict in the Middle East--->WW3?)


  • #15
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    FISMA wrote: »
    No. The markets tanked when they announced the debt ceiling was raised. They rebounded on the news by the Fed that they would keep interest rates low, and again they tanked today. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

    The markets are futures. Nothing was cut in the "cuts" that preceded the lifting of the debt ceiling. Rather, caps were placed on future spending.

    This second dip (on Wednesday 10/8) is concerning.

    I was being sarcastic.


  • #16
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    wes wrote: »
    This is some hilarious nonsense right there. Al Qaeda hate Shia's, as we saw from the numerous attacks in Iraq. For the US government to make this claims, destroys whats left of its credibility. Sorry, but I don't believe a single word of the US governments claims here, especially considering past claims about Al Qaeda links to Iraq, that turned out to be utter nonsense as well.
    But .... talk radio has been telling me All muslims want me dead? Sunni, Shia, they all hate America.

    /satire


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