[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
Iran wasn’t paid $8 billion, those funds were Iranian assets that had been frozen in response to the Islamic Revolution.
The CIA supplied 50-60 FIM-92 Stingers to Qatar State Security, who then passed those SAMs onto Taliban forces? What a crock of shit. I’ve examined a military list of aviation incidents in the Afghanistan war, and no such event was recorded to have occurred on 25 July 2012 as the article you.[/quote]
It was reported in the New York Post and their source was Kenneth R Timmerman:
In the early 1980s, Timmerman became a Middle East correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and developed an expertise in the Middle East and the arms trade. In 1982, he was taken prisoner for 24 days by Fatah guerillas in Lebanon. He was the first journalist on the scene when Islamic militants bombed the US Embassy in 1983.
From 1985 to 1987, Timmerman was a correspondent for Defense and Armament Newsweek and Military Technology, covering the Iranâ??Iraq War and the arms industry in the Middle East. He won the Joe Petrosino Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1987 for an investigation of an Iranian arms procurement group.
From 1987 to 1993, Timmerman published the Middle East Defense News and was international correspondent for Defense Electronics. He also wrote monographs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center on efforts by Iraq, Syria and Libya to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
In 1991, Timmerman published The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq after the Gulf War. Timmerman advised the United Nations Special Commission for the Disarmament of Iraq on the location of weapons plants.
In 1993, Timmerman returned to the US where he worked as a member of the staff of the U.S. House Committee on International Relations. In 1995, he founded the Foundation for Democracy in Iran with Peter Rodman, Joshua Muravchick and Iranian opposition expatriates to attempt to topple the Iranian government. He founded the Middle East Data Project to advise governments and private companies. In 1998, he made suggestions to the Rumsfeld Commission supporting the deployment of a national missile defence system.
In 1998, he wrote a piece on Osama Bin Laden and his training camps in Afghanistan just before Al-Qaeda attacked two US embassies in Africa. He also wrote features for the American Spectator criticizing the export of high-technology equipment to China, which was published as a book in 2000…
In 2003, Timmerman published Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War Against America. The French Betrayal of America was published in 2004. Timmerman returned to his field of greatest expertise with the publication of Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran in 2005.
On February 7, 2006 Sweden’s former deputy prime minister and Liberal party leader Per Ahlmark asserted that he had nominated Timmerman for a Nobel Peace Prize along with UN Ambassador John Bolton for “their repeated warnings and documentation of Iran’s secret nuclear buildup and revealing Iran’s repeated lying and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency.”[8] The Nobel Foundation won’t confirm nominations, however, until 50 years have passed.
So we’re expected to believe this guy is lying because you googled a list and couldn’t find the incident on it?
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You can copy and paste a Wikipedia entry. What exactly does that prove? The man was a novelist who turned into a journalist, which is evident by his speculative writing. The US military has ZERO record of the event in question, and it’s an organization that tends to keep pretty detailed records. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary (empirical) evidence, of which neither Timmerman nor you have provided. It’s yellow journalism on his part that happens to jive with your political predispositions. Find a legitimate AAR if you can.