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27 July 2005

You learn something new everyday

I knew Karzi in Afghanistan is from UNOCAL (or whatever, OIL)...

But Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari (of Iraq)is a man with a sordid past. Before he became PM of a blossoming democracy, he was a terrorist leader of the Dawa' party.

"Jaafari is a semi-reformed, but altogether rehabilitated Dawa' terrorist leader who was in the leadership of this group when it bombed the US Embassy in Kuwait."

A reply at Col. Lang's blog to my question about this new (to me) bit of info

12 December, 1983. The embassy was destroyed. Several member of the Dawa Party were arrested and convicted of the crime.

Jafari:

He joined the Islamic Dawa Party in 1968. Upon graduation from school in 1974 he worked actively for the party in Iraq until the Ba'athist government began a violent crackdown on the group. He left for Iran in 1980 and became involved in the anti-Saddam movement there.

The attack on the embassy in Kuwait was planned and run out of Iran.

I was Defense Attache at our embassy in S. Arabia at the time and very interested in this.

At the very least (if you suppress the terror connection) this supports the view that Iran is about to receive a huge prize from our unnecessary escapade into Mesopotamia.

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