Friday, March 21, 2008

The Looming Memory Hole

Never mind what Lawrence Wright says in "The Looming Tower" about al-Zawahiri's support for Iran. How about the 9/11 commission report? (p.61):

Turabi sought to persuade Shiites and Sunnis to put aside their divisions and join against the common enemy. In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to cooperate
in providing support—even if only training—for actions carried out primarily
against Israel and the United States. Not long afterward, senior al Qaeda operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives. In the fall of 1993,another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for further training in explosives as well as in intelligence and security. Bin Ladin reportedly showed particular interest in learning how to use truck bombs such as the one that had killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.The relation-ship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist operations.
As will be described in chapter 7,al Qaeda contacts with Iran continued in ensuing years.52


Looks like when O is president, he will be the "fireman" for the 9/11 Report. O'Brother...

And if he doesn't succeed in burning all the copies, what will be the sneering argument? Something along the lines of "of course murderers and rapists get better, what kind of a racist are you?".

Welcome to insulated credulity on stilts...