IRAN: BUSH WANTS TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE IRANIAN LEADERUnited States President George W. Bush announced that he wants to know whether the new Iranian leader,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was part of the '79 seizure of the US embassy in Teheran, in which 52 Americans were held hostages for 444 days.
"Obviously his involvement raises many questions," said the US president.
Several different eye-witnesses from the seventies have recognised the Iranian president as one of the leaders of the operation. Retired Navy Captain Donald Sharer said he was pretty sure about the man,
"He wasn't a very nice fellow at the time. He called us pigs and dogs. He's very hardline; he's a guy we are not going to get along with," he told a US morning TV.
Bill Daugherty, another retired US official says, "
no doubts at all" about the identity of the president.
"When your country is being humiliated and being embarrassed, the individuals that do that really stick in your mind. You don't forget people who do things like that to you and your family and your country," he told the press.
Speaking from Tehran, a former student leader who was involved in the seizure of the American embassy reported that "
He [Ahmadinejad] was a student at a different university."
Another negative answer comes from Mohammad-Reza Khatami, also involved in the seizure, who said,
"I don't think he was part of it,...I cannot remember him at all."
A picture from the seventies showing a man who rensembles a young Ahmadinejad leading a blindfolded hostage, was posted on many websites recently. Many former CIA agents or soldiers involved in the seizure recognised the man as the new Iranian leader.
As soon as he saw the picture, Mr. Daugherty sent an e-mail to his collegues Charles Scott, Donald Sharer and David M. Roeder saying,
"I assume you've noticed that the new Iranian president was one of......who was behind the takeover of the embassy and our incarceration. Not to mention having expressed a determination to pursue a nuclear program that will allow them to develop a nuclear weapon."
The
Bush administration will now investigate on the issue in attempt to solve one of the most important international cases ever. Given the current US attitude toward the Middle East, a terrorist president could be a good point for attacking any country.
Others say that even if Ahmadinejad was involved in the seizure, there is no point in talking about a scandal because
Bush himself was involved in the "Skull and Bones" nazi-masonic organization.
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