Tel-Chai Nation

YnetNews (via Melanie Phillips) has a very important article about Ellen Saracini's quest to investigate Iran's ties to the 9-11 attacks:

'The huge amount of evidence included in the lawsuit comes together to form a fascinating charge: Starting in the 1990s, Iran and Hezbollah helped Osama Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri create a new terror organization from scratch, to be headed by Afghanistan veterans and members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Iran trained group members, equipped them with advanced technological means, enabled them to move freely and provided them with plenty of terror-related expertise and experience accumulated by Hezbollah in its operations against Israel and the United States.

'Later, according to the lawsuit, Iran assisted in the preparations ahead of September 11.... Witness X testifies about Iran’s advance knowledge of the plan to crash passenger airliners into strategic targets in Washington and New York. He testifies that he was present at training facilities for Sunni terrorists in Iran and adds many details about the way Iran’s intelligence service utilizes legitimate Iranian organizations such as its airline and shipping company for terror aims.

'Witness Y testifies about Imad Mughniyeh’s personal involvement in training the September 11 hijackers and the shelter granted by Iran to al-Qaeda’s men after the attacks. Meanwhile, witness Z says that he was present in a series of meetings in Tehran involving senior al-Qaeda men, local intelligence officials and Mughniyeh’s men in the months before the 9/11 attacks.'

The reporter says that:

'Should Mellon and his team prove all of the above, everything we thought we knew about the terror offensive will change forever.'

Absolutely correct. It will prove that Iran is much more dangerous in terms of terror plotting than previously thought.

Labels: anti-americanism, iran, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror