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I saw a show on TV last night about all the items taken when the Seals and others raided OBL compound. Even Al-Qaida thinks Iran is a government.

Much like this report.

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By BRIAN MURPHY | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago. 4 may 2012

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In the rigid enemy-or-ally world view of Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenants, Iran occupied a spot somewhere in between — a state seen as arrogant, enigmatic and driven by self interest, according to newly released al-Qaida documents.

Yet there is also a sense that al-Qaida recognizes the importance of Iran's role in the region and the need to keep some level of dialogue.

The papers — seized in last year's raid on bin Laden's Pakistan hide-out and posted online Thursday by the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center — portray al-Qaida's relations with Iran as clouded by deep mutual distrust and sharply divergent interests.

A June 2009 al-Qaida memo — possibly to bin Laden — refers to the Iranian government as "criminals" in a no-holds bashing of its opaque and unpredictable policies.

"The criminals did not send us any letter," wrote al-Qaida's top Afghanistan commander, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, about the earlier kidnapping of an Iranian diplomat in Pakistan that was believed carried out by militants linked to al-Qaida.

"Such behavior is, of course, not unusual for (the Iranians); indeed it is typical of their mindset and methods," continued al-Rahman, who was killed the following year in a CIA drone strike in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. "They do not wish to appear to be negotiating with us or responding to our pressures."

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I saw a show on TV last night about all the items taken when the Seals and others raided OBL compound. Even Al-Qaida thinks Iran is a government.

Much like this report.


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According to wiki leaks so does the king of Saudi Arabia.
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If this is true, then we should be negotiating with the Taliban to see if we can turn them against Iran. Lets see how Iran likes having a couple of airliners fly into the Milad Tower.
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If this is true, then we should be negotiating with the Taliban to see if we can turn them against Iran. Lets see how Iran likes having a couple of airliners fly into the Milad Tower.
But we have a penchant for screw ups in the ME. Armed Iran, Armed Sad Ham, Armed bin Laden, maybe we better not negotiate anymore. I want us to fu%$ing confiscate Iran anyway and pay us back for all the hardware, training and human suffering they cost us in the eighties.
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But we have a penchant for screw ups in the ME. Armed Iran, Armed Sad Ham, Armed bin Laden, maybe we better not negotiate anymore. I want us to fu%$ing confiscate Iran anyway and pay us back for all the hardware, training and human suffering they cost us in the eighties.
Saddam - dead.
OBL - dead.

Maybe we really should arm Iran...




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Saddam - dead.
OBL - dead.

Maybe we really should arm Iran...
We did once but I guess old ItoldyaIstupid was too... to take the bait.
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According to wiki leaks so does the king of Saudi Arabia.


Plus a few other countries in the region...
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