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aeroplane Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: Iran leader linked to 1979 hostage crisis |
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Here we go. Those Fcking nuts in Washington want an excuse that they hope the American People will buy as a good enough reason to invade Iran. (sorry about the attitude, but as the little Martian on Bugs Bunny used to say, "This sht makes me very angry. Very angry indeed!)
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Iran leader linked to 1979 hostage crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least four Americans held hostage in the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran said on Thursday they recognized Iran's president-elect as one of the ringleaders from the crisis, a claim denied in Tehran.
In interviews with U.S. television networks, retired Navy Capt. Donald Sharer and Bill Daugherty, said they were convinced Iran's ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of their Iranian captors.
"He wasn't a very nice fellow at the time. He called us pigs and dogs. He's very hard-line, he's a guy we are not going to get along with," said Sharer in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" show.
Daugherty said he also had "no doubts at all" that Ahmadinejad was one of his hostage-takers.
"When your country is being humiliated and being embarrassed, the individuals that do that really stick in your mind. You don't forget people who do things like that to you and your family and your country," said Daugherty.
In Iran, two leading figures in the seizure of the U.S. Embassy denied Ahmadinejad took part in the hostage drama which led Washington to break ties with Tehran.
"Ahmadinejad was not among those who occupied the American Embassy after the revolution," said Abbas Abdi, who helped to orchestrate the raid on the embassy and the seizure of its staff after the Islamic revolution.
Mohsen Mirdamadi, another ringleader of the hostage-taking drama in Tehran, rejected the reports.
"I deny such reports. Ahmadinejad was not a member of the radical students' group who seized the embassy," said Mirdamadi, a former lawmaker.
The young militants involved in the embassy takeover have followed different career paths in the past 25 years. Some were appointed to government jobs or elected to parliament. Some turned into radical reformers and challenged the ruling Shi'ite clerics, and a number of them, including Abdi, have spent several years in prison.
'CRUEL' RINGLEADER
Fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days. Washington severed ties with Tehran in 1980 and has branded Iran as part of an "axis of evil" for allegedly pursuing nuclear arms and sponsoring terrorism. Iran denies the charges.
Asked to comment on denials from Iran, Sharer told NBC's "Today" show he remembered the new president as one of the "cruel" ringleaders.
"All I can say is I remember the fellow being very cruel-like, stern, a very narrow beady-eyed character. I can't comment on what they are saying politically now. They are probably trying to cover their tracks and make the rest of the world think he was not involved," said Sharer.
Another ex-hostage, retired Army Col. Charles Scott, 73, told The Washington Times the president-elect was one of two or three top leaders involved in the hostage crisis.
"As soon as I saw his picture in the paper, I knew that was the bastard," said Scott, of Jonesboro, Georgia. "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."
Kevin Hermening of Mosinee, Wisconsin, a 20-year-old Marine security guard when the embassy was stormed, told the paper he had contact with Ahmadinejad right after the takeover.
"He was involved in interrogating me the day we were taken captive," Hermening was quoted as saying. He said interrogators sought the combinations for "safes and other things that were locked."
Ahmadinejad, who won Iran's presidential election by a landslide last week, was a 23-year-old university student at the time of the takeover in November 1979 and was a founding member of the radical student group that organized the storming of the U.S. Embassy compound, the Times said.
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Pepper Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| It would seem that the story is propaganda. Maybe it's him or maybe Iranians look the same to some people. I can't believe anything the government tells me due to abuse of trust. |
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Mystic Power admin THC-Ministry YahooGroup


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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Amen. My thought exactly.
When I first heard it, I said, "Bullshit." _________________ "We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
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Brother Adam Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: |
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When I read it I said "Oh my god....here we go...."
You know, it's funny. I have to come on here to meet people who actually have the same level of intellect as me and recognize these things for what they really are. EVERYWHERE around me are people who have no idea about the forces at work behind the scenes.
I must be one of the only people who ventures into public with my eyes on everyone else. I watch them like busy little worker ants doing thier thing, mindless of anything farther than walking distance from the mound. I feel like I'm in a world of zombies and I can't talk to anyone.
Iran has been on thier hit list for a while now....people like us know this. Everyone else is completely oblivious. We truely are living in the fourth riech. Americans are as patriotic and gung-ho as the Germans were.....didn't they teach us in school, history repeats itself? |
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ljb regular contributor

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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the last i thought i heard on this issue is that the u.s. was going to let bygones be bygones. that is they weren't going to invade iran over this. which, goes to show that the government uses whatever issue whenver and for whatever purposes they choose. there is no principled foreign policy based on promoting democracy and freedom. it's based on dollahs. the u.s. knows it would be sounding it's own imperialist death knell by invading iran.
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Mystic Power admin THC-Ministry YahooGroup


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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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...the u.s. knows it would be sounding it's own imperialist death knell by invading iran.
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Really? Why, I just heard Dick Cheney say the other day that "Iraq will be a phenomenal success and the insurgency is in it's last throes..."
help-me-I-can't-breathe!!!!
(Dickie! You NUT! Getta outta here, I mean it!!)
My question on Iraq....How'd so much of OUR oil wind up being under THEIR sand....? _________________ "We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
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Brother Adam Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Haha Mystic!
I still think there is reason for alarm when allegations of this sort start spreading around. There's a reason the Herst media released news of this sort. I do more than take everything with a grain of salt. I try to analyze it and understand what the real purpose or motives are. Personally, I've come to the conclusion that this information is meant to fuel american dissent with "arabs", and to "plant a seed" in the minds of the american public so that the bombshell will go over easier when they start thier invasion......  |
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Mystic Power admin THC-Ministry YahooGroup


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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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Yes...it is "planting seeds" of suspicion and discontent toward some possible future action....these people are so out of touch with reality, they might think they'd be able to pull it off....oh...say....5 or 10 years down the road....
With 80-something permanent bases being built in Iraq...they have no plans for withdrawl. They're lying when they say they do.
They want a permanent military presence in the region, much like they had in the Philippines for almost 90 years. _________________ "We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
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