QUOTE (J m HofMarN @ Jun 29 2005, 12:41 AM)
Arghable...
There was a bombing in Lebanon that killed American citizens. You aught to remember that. I'm not asking you to recall important dates involving the deaths of foreign devils, but since I'm assuming by your... certain qualities... that you're an American, you aught to recall when marines from your nation are blown to bits.
The Qaeda members are not weapons, they're capital - bargaining chips. Iran is holding them without charge because if the U.S. should threaten war the Qaeda hierarchy (and these people are quite high up) could be offered in exchange for a promise of non-aggression. And if the U.S. should piss off Iran severely they could release the Qaeda members and refuse to stymie their terrorist efforts. You really need to understand that global politics are more complicated than they usually appear.
Melkor- Wow, thanks for that. I hadn't quite figured that out. Are you sure the Bush administration won't get after you for distributing such obviously classified information?
What I was refering too in my puzzled response of when did Iran work with Al Quada to bomb lebonon... that never happend. What your thinking of is when a Iranian BACKED militant group (hezbollah, not al quada) suicide bombed a US Marines Barracks after we stationed there.