Goldmund
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Tue Jun-29-04 10:46 AM
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US expels two Iranian security guards at the Iranian UN mission |
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U.S. expels two Iranian security guards at Iranian Mission to United Nations for conduct unbecoming their status. Details soon.
www.cnn.com
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Loonman
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Tue Jun-29-04 10:49 AM
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1. Taking photos of NYC transportation facilities |
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Tue Jun-29-04 10:53 AM
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2. Strange... If they were suspicious they had terrorist intentions, |
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then why did they let them go? Did they question them first? And if they concluded they didn't have any bad motives (so they let them go), then why expel them? It sounds like one of those incidents designed to escalate tensions -- but I guess it's too early to say anything definitively...
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Tue Jun-29-04 11:03 AM
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3. Can't be proven in court, probably |
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Diplomatic immunity, too.
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Tue Jun-29-04 11:53 AM
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Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 11:53 AM by slavkomae
I'm sure it's nothing that can't be rigged up with some PATRIOT Act acrobatics.
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Tue Jun-29-04 11:57 AM
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6. Yeah, and famous NYC landmarks. |
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Which probably means, they took a tour of NY, went to Grand Central Station, took the Staten Island ferry, and saw the Statue of Liberty.
Fucking savages.
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Tue Jun-29-04 11:05 AM
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From Disinfopedia (edited to 3 paragraphs):
"From creative destruction to total war, the guiding beliefs of the most aggressive foreign policymakers in the George Walker Bush administration may originate in the works of Michael Ledeen. "Ledeen’s ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America’s manifest destiny.
"With a group of other conservatives, Ledeen recently set up the Center for Democracy in Iran (CDI), an action group focusing on producing regime change in Iran.
"'No one I know wants to wage war on Iran and Syria, but I believe there is now a clear recognition that we must defend ourselves against them,' Ledeen wrote. His attacks against the CIA and the State Department have contributed to the exclusion of these intelligence bodies from any effective decision making on Iraq. His attacks on Iran, even when Iran was assisting the United States, helped keep the Bush administration from seeking any rapprochement with Tehran. Were it in Ledeen's hands, we would invade Iran today."
Ledeen is the author of "Universal Fascism" and an admiring biography of Gabrielle D'Annunzio, founder of the Italian Fascist Party. His daughter Simone works for the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority.
Is taking pictures in NYC a cassus belli?
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