NEWS: AP Photo shows Iran's new President as 1979 US hostage-taker

Ahmadinejad became involved in the clerical regime’s terrorist operations abroad and led many “extra-territorial operations of the IRGC”. With the formation of the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of the IRGC, Ahmadinejad became one of its senior commanders. He was the mastermind of a series of assassinations in the Middle East and Europe, including the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou, who was shot dead by senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards in a Vienna flat in July 1989. Ahmadinejad was a key planner of the attack

In the early 1980s, Ahmadinejad worked in the “Internal Security” department of the IRGC and earned notoriety as a ruthless interrogator and torturer. According to the state-run website Baztab, allies of outgoing President Mohammad Khatami have revealed that Ahmadinejad worked for some time as an executioner in the notorious Evin Prison, where thousands of political prisoners were executed in the bloody purges of the 1980s.

Originally posted by looking4truth
Iran is filled with Al-Qeada and Hezbollah types, elect a moderate and get the violence they've been exporting for years, the shaws know this. There is a regime in control of Iran that makes the House of Saud look like the peacecorps.

Originally posted by metallicabrainz
Could some of these accusations against him be lies to justify the coming war with Iran? I'm not defending him just keeping an open mind. I mean, look at where this story came from... 5 hostages who saw his face and started e-mailing eachother... 1 of which was a CIA officer in Iran... how can 5 ex-hostages word be anything more than heresay.

Originally posted by Sikbasterd
If Iran gets nukes their hands on nukes that will be the starting point of WWIII. Allah help us all!

Originally posted by twitchy
I trust you have some reliable demographic data to back up this statement? Cause if you don't this is a racist statement, and simple minded generalization of a culture which is thousands of years old. Call me crazy but I would venture to say that most Iranians are well, Iranian.

July 16 - In its report due next week, the September 11 commission will disclose new evidence suggesting Iranian government officials may have helped facilitate the terror attacks by providing Al Qaeda members with safe passage and “clean” passports as they traveled from Osama bin Laden’s training camps in Afghanistan through Iran, NEWSWEEK has learned.

— German prosecutors now realize that Iran is a major center for al Qaeda, and they have identified roughly a dozen camps around Tehran where al Qaeda terrorists are taken care of by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. These camps are part of an elaborate underground railroad: The terrorists and their families are moved out of Afghanistan and Pakistan into Iranian Baluchistan and then into Iran proper. From there they go by air or land either to Beirut or to Damascus (the State Department's "ally" in the war against terror), and then into the Bekka Valley of Lebanon to one of the legendary centers of Hezbollah terror, ein Hilweh. Once their training and phony identities are completed, they move on;