Of course it does...Iran's had it's bloody hands involved with terrorism since the chief shiite terrorist, Ayatollah Khomeini, attacked the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. CIA Station Chief William F. Buckley was tortured to death in Iran (in the best Islamic tradition) after being kidnapped from Beirut. He had a catheter and a balloon forced down his throat and inflated, crushing his internal organs...when his body was finally recovered, the catheter and balloon were still in place. Animals.
Bruce http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B368447.htm Lost Israel pilot's trail led to Iran - spy papers 26 Oct 2004 12:56:35 GMT Source: Reuters By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent BERLIN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Missing airman Ron Arad, a national icon in Israel, was smuggled to Iran in 1996 a full decade after being shot down over Lebanon, according to a German television documentary which concluded the pilot is now dead. WDR television quoted papers of Germany's BND intelligence service saying Arad was held for years in a cave in Lebanon before being handed over in Beirut in Oct. 1996 to an Iranian working for the diplomatic and secret services. From there, it said he was taken days later via Syria to Iran. A BND spokeswoman on Tuesday confirmed the papers were genuine but refused to comment on remarks by a former intelligence chief who told WDR he was sure Arad was dead. An Israeli defence official said the airman was presumed alive. The BND has been mediating between Lebanon, Iran and Israel for the past decade to try to broker a solution to the Arad mystery. The spokeswoman said the agency was still pursuing contacts with both Lebanon's militant Hizbollah group and Tehran, which denies knowledge of the airman's fate. The 18-year quest to find Arad is a hugely emotive public issue in Israel, where successive governments have followed the ethos that captives can never be abandoned in enemy hands. Doubts over whether Arad could have survived have grown in recent years as the trail of evidence has gone cold. "He is dead. The question is whether he died of an illness, from wounds or whether he was killed. That, for me, is not clear," former German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer told the documentary makers. "SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED" Beirut-based sources told Reuters in May that Arad was dead and Hizbollah had his remains. But Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in the WRD film that Arad had "suddenly disappeared" after initially being held by Lebanese Shi'ite Amal militiamen, and "that is all we know". "He was never in our hands. We didn't take him prisoner," Nasrallah said. Israel says it still has no proof of what happened to Arad and will continue its efforts to find him. "The working assumption in the Israeli establishment is that Ron Arad is alive," Major-General Amos Gilad, head of strategic and diplomatic planning in Israel's Defence Ministry, told Army Radio on Tuesday. "The security apparatus is constantly making efforts to find out what befell him, with Iran having been identified as the responsible party." In a German-mediated swap in January, Israel freed hundreds of Arab prisoners while Hizbollah handed over a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three dead soldiers. The exchange was billed as the first phase of an eventual deal that would finally clarify what happened to Arad. German intelligence coordinator Ernst Uhrlau said at the time he hoped to establish the airman's fate within three months, but officials have not reported any further progress. Asked to comment on the status of talks, the BND spokeswoman said: "It's a very difficult negotiation between the partners." (Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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