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Friday, March 06, 2009
Morocco Cuts Diplomatic Ties with Iran
Foreign Confidential....
Morocco has cut diplomatic ties with Iran.
A foreign ministry statement issued Friday said the move is effective immediately.
Morocco recalled its envoy to Iran for a week late last month to protest an Iranian official's comments that appeared to question the sovereignty of Bahrain. Former parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri sparked alarm in the Gulf state by saying Bahrain was an Iranian province until 1971.
Iran failed to answer Rabat's request for an explanation about what it called the Iranian government's singling out of Morocco over its solidarity with Bahrain.
Iranian officials have tried to downplay the comments, sending its interior minister for a visit to Manama and assuring Bahrain that Tehran respects its sovereignty.US Frees Mass-Murdering Terrorist
ADMINISTRATION SPITS ON WATERY GRAVE OF TWA PASSENGERS AND CREW KILLED BY PALESTINIAN BOMB
Dateline USA....
In 1974, this reporter tried to buy a ticket--any ticket--on a TWA Tel Aviv-to-New York flight that was blown up by a Palestinian terrorist bomb. Fortunately, for this reporter, the flight was totally booked up.
Eighty-eight people were killed when the plane exploded in mid-air after a scheduled stop in Athens--a notoriously insecure, anti-American, pro-Palestinian airport.
One of the men responsible for the mass murder--convicted Black September car bomber Khalid Al-Jawary--was released last Thursday from a U.S. prison after serving only half of a 30-year sentence. He received time off for good behavior, and was deported to Sudan.
Khalid Al-Jawary was let go 36 years after he placed bombs in two cars on New York City's Fifth Avenue and a third at Kennedy Airport that were timed to coincide with the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The bombs did not detonate, but Al-Jawary was convicted of the crime in 1993.
He left the United States on Feb. 26 and arrived Tuesday in Sudan, after Algeria changed its mind about accepting him. He had wanted to go to Jordan, where his family lives, but Jordan apparently did not agree to accept him.
Al-Jawary has dual citizenship in Jordan and Iraq.
He has refused to admit his involvement in any other terrorist incidents, but an AP investigation found that Al-Jawary may have been involved in a lethal letter-bombing campaign in addition to the bombing of a TWA flight. He also had links to terrorist Abu Ibrahim, who is believed to be hiding out in Iraq.
May have been involved is news-speak. Fact is, intelligence experts know Al-Jawary was involved in the TWA bombing.
His release is a clear sign that the Obama administration intends to appease Arab and Islamist terrorists. Not since the catastrophic, cowardly Carter administration allowed David Belfield, an Iranian-controlled, American black Muslim assassin, to escape the U.S. after gunning down a former Iranian diplomat--Iran Freedom Foundation founder Ali Tabatabai--in the doorway of his Bethesda, Maryland home has a perfidious act of this kind occurred on U.S. soil.
For the record, this reporter talked with Tabatabai--a gentle but courageous individual who truly believed in the possibility of a democratic Iran--by phone a few hours before news of his murder flashed across the AP wire.
And, also for the record, this reporter warned--in a series of front-page articles in a leading weekly publication--that the Carter administration's betrayal of Iran's modernizing monarch, the Shah, and craven attempt to curry favor with the Ayatollah Khomeini, would lead to the permanent installation of an anti-American, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, terrorist-sponsoring, clerical fascist (Islamist) regime. Carter's pro-Islamist UN Ambassador, Andrew Young, took a different view. He predicted: "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint."
History seems to be repeating itself. Heaven help the free world.
POSTSCRIPT: Several weeks before the TWA bombing, this reporter was told by the airline's public relations chief that the historic carrier had been notified by the U.S. government that it was the top target of terrorists after El-Al, the Israeli airline. TWA in those days was the only US carrier that flew to Israel. The PR executive said he was worried that the airline was not upgrading security in light of the threat. He was right. Many years later, this reporter had an opportunity to discuss the matter with TWA's president. A former Navy fighter pilot, he had friends among the crew members who were killed in the 1974 bombing. He agreed that the airline should have taken the threats more seriously. Investigators concluded, he said, that the doomed flight took on an altitude/ pressure-triggered bomb in Athens. At least one airport worker was probably involved in the incident.
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