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• Wednesday, March 19, 2008 06:53 PM

  What is wrong with you, jpincus?

  jpincus @5:19 p5 writes:

  First of all, the 9/11 Commission report, had Mr. Greenwald bothered to read it, compiled strong evidence that Iran was suspected of training and supporting elements from Al Quaida in areas where both groups had common grievance. More specifically, the Khobar Towers attack, it has been argued, was carried out by both entities with one group supporting the other. Iran has long played a duplicitous role in the Middle East. They frequently use, like many Arab and non-Arab governments, disinformation to ensure that their public image as a solely Shia-aligned oligarchy is maintained.

  The 9/11 Commission report states:

  In June 1996, an enormous truck bomb detonated in the Khobar Towers residential complex in Dhahran,Saudi Arabia,that housed U.S.Air Force personnel.

  Nineteen Americans were killed,and 372 were wounded.The operation was carried out principally, perhaps exclusively, by Saudi Hezbollah, an organization that had received support from the government of Iran.While the evidence of Iranian involvement is strong, there are also signs that al Qaeda played some role, as yet unknown.

  I'm sure that Glenn has read the report, as have I. What I am wondering, jpincus, is how you characterize those two paragraphs as strong evidence, because the wording strong evidence does not make it strong evidence. That is the only reference to Khobar Towers in the report. It's not strong evidence to state that you have strong evidence. You kind of have to provide the evidence, and they didn't because they didn't have it. You know, because, it's not there. You know, kind of like WMDs.

  Who, exactly is the idealogical zealot here? I think it's you, jpincus.

  —milo.d.venus Read milo.d.venus's other letters
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