Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11

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49. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan & Egypt are better bets.

I wonder where the "cited evidence" that Iran "actively assisted the hijackers" came from - the Cheney-Bolton-Feith factions, perhaps? Because their "intelligence" was cherry-picked, deliberately misinterpreted and just plain wrong. "Iranian defectors" are suspect (remember pre-Iraqi war sources like Ahmed Chalabi) and, even if their "testimony" may demonstrate that individual Iranians did "aid and abet" Al Qaeda, that is a far cry from showing "State" action. The Iranian Gov't is not suicidal, just as Saddam was not - although it didn't do him much good in the manufactured drumbeat to war. This is just more of the same. But people will continue to fall for it, because they do not understand the Muslim world at all and make no effort to try.

Iranians are, for the most part, Shia Muslims. Al Qaeda has been overwhelmingly Sunni, albeit wildly radical Sunnis who are far-fetched from mainstream practititioners.

Just because a judge was a Clinton appointee doesn't mean that he knows anything about foreign affairs - it may not even mean that he knows basic rudiments of the law. It does mean that he was probably a good campaign contributor to someone in the Dem party. This judge's signing of "findings of fact" in this situation shows that, whatever he once may have been, he's now a couple cupcakes short of a dozen. In fact, if anyone, our Executive Branch, including Prez, VP, National Security Advisor, and government agencies that didn't talk to each other, etc. were negligently liable for 9-11 and a much better case can be made for that than for Iran's "active" participation.

This is just another way to ratchet up hysteria against Iran.