Jihad Watch: Evidence links Ahmadinejad to Vienna hit

July 5, 2005

Evidence links Ahmadinejad to Vienna hit

More news about Iran's new Thug-in-Chief, from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named:

Austrian authorities have classified documents suggesting that Iran's president-elect may have played a key role in the 1989 execution-style slayings of an Iranian Kurdish leader and two associates in Vienna, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Austria's Interior Ministry and the public prosecutor's office are investigating alleged evidence pointing to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's possible involvement in the attack, the daily Der Standard reported....

Austrian Green Party leader Peter Pilz told the newspaper he wants a warrant issued for the arrest of Ahmadinejad, who he alleged "stands under strong suspicion of having been involved."

Pilz accused the hard-liner of planning the murders of Kurdish resistance leader Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou and two of his colleagues, all of whom were shot in the head at a Vienna apartment by Iranian commandos on July 13, 1989. A fourth victim survived the attack and was able to crawl out of the apartment and alert Austrian authorities.

Posted by Robert at July 5, 2005 4:58 PM
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Robert,

I dont understand international laws and all this warrant crap.So what happens when they issue an arrest warrant for this guy? I dont understand how all that stuff works. I mean its not a coincidence that this guy has had his bloody hands in alot of terrorist crimes. So whats next?

Posted by: pocadon

at July 5, 2005 5:35 PM

The US or at least will sooner, rather than later, take out Iran's nukes in a (hopefully) surgical strike. Another N Korea bang on the world's oil tap? Too much pain to too many powers that be. Am sure powers as diverse as Russia and Saudi will gladly go along with any such plan behind closed doors.

Posted by: voletti

at July 5, 2005 7:16 PM

Complicated shit for the average Joe.

Posted by: Truth

at July 6, 2005 1:11 AM

I dont understand international laws and all this warrant crap.So what happens when they issue an arrest warrant for this guy?

It limits his travel opportunities. Arresting him in Iran seems unlikely. Various European prosecuter-politicians have tried to issue warrants for Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney... Perhaps the UN will issue a strongly-worded letter suggesting he not shoot people in cold blood. Posted by: Beagle

at July 6, 2005 1:21 AM

I doubt these are true. US investigators came to the conclusion that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not that man in the photo of the hostage takers that the former hostages claimed Ahmadinejad was.

Why don't you post that article Spencer?

Posted by: Gary2121

at July 6, 2005 4:42 AM

Here it is...Spencer why dont you post this? You are fair and balanced right? Not a propagandist?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fg-usiran2jul02,0,4394415.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Posted by: Gary2121

at July 6, 2005 4:49 AM

Gary:
Robert Spencer will post what he wants. Not what illiterate dipshits demand. Go over to Daily Kos or DU for your daily dose of delusions.

Posted by: dennisw

at July 6, 2005 7:59 AM

Gary2121:

Spencer posted both sides of the Ahmadinejad as hostage taker story, acknowledging that he may not have been a participant as he is far too short to be the man in the now famous picture. This story about the assassinations in Austria is a completely different matter. Just because Ahmadenejad wasn't among those who stormed the US embassy, doesn't mean he hasn't had other involvements, particularly given his history with the Basij militia and the Revolutionary Guards.

Posted by: waterdragon52

at July 6, 2005 8:09 AM

Gary2121...thats "MR Spenser" to you dude...it's ok Gary, we all know you are just trying to help...

Normally I dont relate to the notion of "guilt by association". However what does not apply to reasonable people, applys perfectly to muslims. Their society is more like an ants nest than anything, with all the workers supporting their ummah and protecting the queen...Allah/Mohammad/Islam in this case. They are all in it together, held together by the Quran and by the agreement of millions of supporters. And like the ant nest, no individual must stand out as different, or he will be cast out or killed. Every muslim in existance knows there is a jihad going on...they all know, or should know, that it is their duty and obligation to participate on some level. They all know, or should know, that evading jihad makes them a hipocrite in Allahs eye's and he has for evaders a severe punishment...
This applys to Ahmadinejad as well as the rest and maybe even more so. He is just another ant in the nest that has risen to a power position.
Knowing the extent of his active involvement should alter the way he is accepted and dealt with by the west. But he is there now, and the west has to deal with him and all he represents in real time...

Posted by: duh_swami

at July 6, 2005 10:16 AM

Bill in Virginia, the difference between investigating magistrates in Austria putting out a warrant for Ahmadinejad on suspicion of murders, and unauthorized Yankee cowboys abducting someone, is the difference between law and illegality. If you support illegality, too bad, we are not on the same side, but I can introduce you to plenty of Muslims who think as you do.

Anyway, the horror of this is not even that a probable murderer has been "elected" (if we accept this as an election) to President of a country; it is that Iran is now headed, thanks to Council of Guardians manipulation, by someone who literally makes Hashemi Rafsanjani look moderate and reforming. That is like finding someone more radical than Hitler. I think some sort of war is now inevitable.

Posted by: Paolo

at July 6, 2005 3:53 PM