More on Iran's thuggish new President from Spiegel Online, with thanks to Simon:
The newly elected president of Iran has been accused of being involved in the 1980 American hostage crisis. Former hostage David Roeder, 66, told SPIEGEL ONLINE, that Ahmadinejad threatened to kidnap his son and cut off his fingers and toes. "You don't forget someone like that," the former Assistant Air Force Attache says. SPIEGEL ONLINE: You are claiming that the newly elected president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was one of those involved in taking and holding you hostage in Iran from November 1979 to January 1981. How can you be sure?Roeder: He was present at at least a third of my personal interrogations, which took place nightly for a little over a month early on in the hostage-taking situation. He seemed to be calling the shots, but from the background. The interrogators would ask a question and it would then be translated from Farsi into English by a woman interpreter.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Did they try to exert force on you to answer the questions or did you cooperate freely?
Roeder: I decided that initially I wasn't going to respond in any way, shape or form. They had me handcuffed to a chair and at least during the first few sessions, blindfolded as well. But once the blindfold came off, they had developed a plan that Ahmadinejad was instigating. Because I was not cooperating, they threatened that they were going to kidnap my handicapped son and send various pieces of him -- fingers and toes is what they mentioned -- to my wife if I didn't start cooperating. You don't forget somebody who is involved in something like that....
SPIEGEL ONLINE: You don't think you could have forgotten him after all these years?
Roeder: No, absolutely not. Not when he was involved in threatening my son.
I am not in a position to say if the hostage taker is or is not the new Iranian president. But, where is the CIA? Didn't they do a pre-election analysis of the likely winners in last week's election? Shouldn't they have known the backgrounds of the front runners in the election?After all, President Bush has called Iran a member of the axis of evil. That regime richly deserved the name, but I am puzzled at the lack of investigations of those Islamic fascists.
NBC evening news anchorman Brian Williams just noted- at 6:35 p.m. EST June 30, 2005, that the new Iranian "pre-picked" President- if he was a U.S. embassy hostage-taker (...and it sure looks like his face, to me, on the 1979 photos of that invasion of America's sovereign territory), 'secular' ayatollah Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could be compared to the founders of the United States, whom "the British would have considered all of them revolutionaries, if not terrorists" (to an obsequiously-nodding colleague), bringing the glory of "Moral relativism" to one of its most panderingly bankrupt low points in modern journalistic history.
Now the people who overthrew a globally-reaching tyranny and established the first and best beacon for all free, democratic and constitutionally-based governments on Earth are compared with a thieving, illegitimate maniac brought to power at the beck and call of theocratic despotic madmen to abet their cruel terror state.
I think old Brian "Values? -we don't need no stinkin' values" Williams needs to do a Dick 'Turban' Durbin mea culpa for this outrageous slandering of the founding fathers of the U.S.
He joins the growing list of Weasels of Moral Relativism.
maryrose:
After listening to the Laurie Roth show last night I wouldn't put much faith in the CIA to do anything useful. Congressman Curt Weldon revealed some staggering information about their inaction regarding 9/11 and what's happening now in Iran..
Listen here:- http://www.therothshow.com/pages/1/index.htm
Could someone get this story to Robert please.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4637461.stm
Thank you
Singh
http://www.islamundressed.com
Has anyone got that special police software that ages the face for a specified number of years. Might not help too much but would be good to test out.
Singh
http://www.islamundressed.com
Hi!
Yet another exclusive report from AIA:
Iran Can Blow Up Azerbaijan From Within
http://www.axisglobe.com/article241.htm
In my opinion the new President does not even resemble the Iranian hostage taker. Take a look at the bone structure -- he has high chisled cheek bones. The president does not. His eyes are not the same or even similar. The face may begin to sag with age but the bones will remain the same. The new President is not overweight either so the shape of his face shouldn't change that much...