What is he thinking? What is he trying to do? Is anyone noticing a pattern here? “Obama Declines Iran Offer of al-Qaida Members,” by Kenneth R. Timmerman in NewsMax, April 28 (thanks to rocketsbrain):
When Iranian government official Ahmad Samavati arrived in Washington, D.C., in February at the head of a five-man negotiating team, he thought he had an offer the Obama administration couldn’t refuse.
The Iranian regime was going to turn over scores of top al-Qaida operatives, including some on the FBI”s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list.
To Samavati’s surprise, the State Department officials he met declined the offer. “They told him they did not want any al-Qaida people. They told him they didn’t want them in the United States,” an Iranian source familiar with the negotiations told Newsmax.
Although apparently they do want East Turkestan Islamic Movement members who have trained in Al-Qaeda camps to be not only in the United States, but roaming free.
The decline, and the very fact that the Iranian regime sent Samavati to Washington in the first place, shows the profound policy shift that has occurred in both Tehran and Washington since Barack Obama became president….
Indeed. There is much more. Read it all.