Funny guy. But the real joke is that while Saudi involvement in 9/11 has been widely known, and energetically covered up, Iran was involved in 9/11 as well.
As I detail in my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, on December 22, 2011, U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels ruled in Havlish, et al. v. bin Laden, et al., that Iran and Hizballah were liable for damages to be paid to relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks in New York and Washington.
Judge Daniels found that both the Islamic Republic and its Lebanese proxy had actively aided al-Qaeda in planning and executing those attacks. He found that Iran and Hizballah had cooperated and collaborated with al-Qaeda before 9/11, and continued to do so after the attacks.
Before 9/11, Iran and Hizballah were implicated in efforts to train al-Qaeda members to blow up large buildings. This training resulted in the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000.
Shortly after the Cole attack, the 9/11 jihad plot began to come together — and Iran was involved.
Former MOIS operative Abolghasem Mesbahi, a defector from Iran, testified that during the summer of 2001 he received messages from Iranian government officials regarding a plan for unconventional warfare against the United States. The plot was entitled Shaitan dar Atash (“Satan in Flames”).
“Satan in Flames” was the Iranian’s elaborate plot to hijack three passenger jets, each packed full of people, and crash them into American landmarks: the World Trade Center, which jihadis took to be the center of American commerce; the Pentagon, the center of America’s military apparatus; and the White House.
A classified National Security Agency analysis referred to in the 9/11 Commission report reveals that eight to 10 of the 9/11 hijackers traveled to Iran repeatedly in late 2000 and early 2001.
The 9/11 Commission called for a U.S. government investigation into Iran’s role in 9/11 — but none was ever undertaken.
So Kenneth R. Timmerman of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran was, in his words, “engaged by the Havlish attorneys in 2004 to carry out the investigation the 9/11 Commission report called on the U.S. government to handle.”
Timmerman noted that during the 9/11 hijackers’ trips to Iran, they were “accompanied by ‘senior Hezbollah operatives’ who were in fact agents of the Iranian regime.” Iranian border agents did not stamp their passports so that their having been inside the Islamic Republic would not arouse suspicion when they entered the United States. The CIA, embarrassed by its failure to recognize the import of these trips, tried to suppress this revelation.
However, Timmerman contends that even the available evidence is explosive enough. In his words, he reveals that the Islamic Republic of Iran:
- Helped design the 9/11 plot
- Provided intelligence support to identify and train the operatives who carried it out
- Allowed the future hijackers to evade U.S. and Pakistani surveillance on key trips to Afghanistan — where they received the final order of mission from Osama bin Laden — by escorting them through Iranian borders without passport stamps
- Evacuated hundreds of top al-Qaeda operatives from Afghanistan to Iran after 9/11 just as U.S. forces launched their offensive
- Provided safe haven and continued financial support to al-Qaeda cadres for years after 9/11
- Allowed al-Qaeda to use Iran as an operational base for additional terror attacks, in particular the May 2003 bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Ayatollah Khamenei knew about the plot. During the summer of 2001, he instructed Iranian agents to be careful to conceal their tracks. He told them to communicate only with al-Qaeda’s second-in-command — Ayman al-Zawahiri — and Imad Mughniyah of Hizballah.
Mughniyah was Iran’s key player in the 9/11 “Satan in Flames” plot. During the Havlish trial, former CIA agents Clare M. Lopez and Bruce D. Tefft submitted an affidavit stating:
Imad Mughniyah, the most notable and notorious world terrorist of his time, an agent of Iran and a senior operative of Hizballah, facilitated the international travel of certain 9/11 hijackers to and from Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, and perhaps various other locations for the purpose of executing the events of September 11, 2001.
This support enabled two vital aspects of the September 11, 2001 plot to succeed: (1) the continued training of the hijackers in Afghanistan and Iran after securing their United States visas in Saudi Arabia, and (2) entry into the United States.
The Obama-era CIA went to great pains to try to ensure that information about Iran’s role in 9/11 did not come out in the Havlish case.
In August 2010, a CIA official pressured a Havlish witness to withdraw his testimony in exchange for a new identity, new passport, and new job.
In December of that year, another CIA operative approached a different Havlish witness, showed him documents stolen from the case, and took him to a U.S. embassy where he was subjected to five hours of interrogation. He was finally offered cash if he recanted his testimony. Says Timmerman:
After I reported those attempts at witness tampering to a Congressional oversight committee, they ceased.
Judge Daniels determined that Iran, Hizballah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and other Iranian government departments — as well as the Ayatollah Khamenei himself and former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — were all directly implicated in Iranian efforts to aid al-Qaeda in its 9/11 plot.
Daniels awarded the plaintiffs in the Havlish case $394,277,884 for economic damages, $94,000,000 for pain and suffering, $874,000,000 for mental anguish and grief, $4,686,235,921 in punitive damages, and $968,000,000 in pre-judgment interest for a total of $7,016,513,805.
The Havlish plaintiffs will not receive a check for that amount from the Islamic Republic of Iran neatly signed by the Ayatollah Khamenei. Still, the judgment provided a small bit of solace for the loss of life and years of trauma these families suffered as a result of the Islamic Republic’s war against the United States.
Most importantly, the judgment stands as an acknowledgment of Iran’s role in the 9/11 attacks.
Clearly, Iran is and has been at war with the United States, Over a period of many years, Iran has conducted that war on numerous unconventional fronts while threatening conventional attacks if its agenda is thwarted in any way.
“Iran’s Zarif urges Trump to discuss avoiding another 9/11 with Saudis,” Reuters, May 21, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, advised US President Donald Trump to discuss how to avoid another September 11 attack with the Saudi hosts of his first official visit abroad, Zarif wrote in an editorial published on Sunday….
Saudi Arabia denies providing any support for the 19 hijackers – most of whom were Saudi citizens – who killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001.
“(Trump) must enter into dialogue with them about ways to prevent terrorists from continuing to fuel the fire in the region and repeating the likes of the September 11 incident by their sponsors in Western countries,” Zarif wrote for the website of the London-based Al Araby Al-Jadeed news network.
At a campaign event last February, Trump himself suggested to supporters that the kingdom may be behind the attacks.
“You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center because they have papers out there that are very secret. You may find it’s the Saudis, okay, but you will find out.”
But since his election, Trump has put an end to his sharp commentary in public and on his twitter account about the key US ally and the world’s top oil exporter….
mortimer says
Soddy Barbaria and Iranium are two bookends that contain the same SUPREMACIST, JIHADIST library.
Both countries unabashedly support and proclaim WORLD CONQUEST and warfare against the disbelievers that ALL Muslims are required to HATE ‘for the sake of Allah’.
The Shi’ites HATE, DESPISE, DISAVOW and DISASSOCIATE from the DIRTY KUFAAR just as much as the Soddy Barbarians.
dumbledoresarmy says
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that the whole of the damn Ummah was in on 9/11.
That becomes plainer and plainer the more one discovers about it.
Muslims – shiite and sunni – go on hajj, to Mecca. Hordes of them, from all over the dar al islam, every year. Then they go home. What if some of them go home with messages for their imams/ sheikhs/ mullahs?? “Marching orders”??
What if the hajj is a giant ‘information exchange’, and a way for the mohammedan mobsters to both exchange info, make plots and plans, and… issue instructions to the mosques, the Forward Operating Bases and recruitment-incitement centres and safe houses and arsenals and arms factories of the de facto Empire of Islam? Especially to the mosques that are out there in dar al Harb, in Infidel lands?
What if the ‘hit’ on the USA was decided, by the head honchos of the Ummah, *years and years* before 2001, and then, when the time came, word had filtered out beforehand to most Muslim ‘communities’. Some might not have known. But I’ll bet that some, in every Muslim colony in every Infidel land, *did* know. I’ll bet the imams and sheikhs and the likes of CAIR knew beforehand, so as to have their PR and ‘spin’ and self-defensive talking points all ready to trot out, to try to bamboozle the infidels and (pretty successfullly, as it transpired) lull most or many of them back to sleep?
By now, i would not be surprised if someone discovered that most of the world’s Muslims *knew* BEFOREHAND – perhaps even four or five or ten years beforehand – that the USA was going to be attacked, and that the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon, and either the White House or the Capitol, were the intended targets.
And when it *happened*, all over the world, Muslims of all sects *celebrated*. Some openly and loudly, some behind closed doors. And all over the world, Muslimahs who had previously worn westernised dress suddenly donned Gang Uniform – the hijab, in various forms.
billybob says
The well known Islamic scholar Ibrahim Itace who frequently shares his knowledge with us here in the comment section would say it was the Jews who were behind the 9/11 attacks, so Robert seems to have it all wrong. (That was sarcasm, by the way).
gravenimage says
Iran’s Zarif urges Trump to discuss avoiding another 9/11 with Saudis
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What a card…
moeped says
We have agents operating in their wretched countries while their wretched agents operate in ours.
The problem is that we cannot handle our infiltrators effectively – IE imprisonment, death or deportation, which is how they deal with our operatives.
It often is the case that a terrorist is already known to the authorities but nothing is done. That doesn’t happen in our enemies’ countries.
We can’t win this war until we are allowed to fight fire with fire. Unfortunately you can’t fight barbarians with laws.
alex smythe says
Terrorists can be quite practical.
Politicianphobia says
i DESPISE ISLAM AND ALL THE COWARDS WHO KEEP ON KILLING IN THE NAME OF ALLAH.