I know it’s in the highlights section today and all, but I really want to draw extra attention to the latest article by historian Gareth Porter, where he explains, “How the Neocons Sabotaged Iran’s Help on al-Qaeda,”
“The United States and Iran were on a course to work closely together on the war against al-Qaeda and its Taliban sponsors in Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002 – until Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped in to scuttle that cooperation, according to officials who were involved at the time.”
This reminds me, didn’t I just read something about how one of the purposes of the famous Ledeen-Franklin-Rhode-SCIRI-SISMI-Iran-Gorbanifar meeting in Rome in December of 2001 was to thwart a plan that was in the works where the Iranians were going to turn over 5 al Qaeda terrorists to the US in exchange for some MEK terrorists?
Lemme see here, oh yeah, it was over on Juan Cole’s blog…
Ah, ha, here it is! Bastards. Everyone remember to link to this when something blows up and Iran gets the blame.
PS: One could do a lot worse than to go through that whole page at the Juan Cole link.
