Recently in the press, questions have been posed about the possibility of the US being drawn into the War between Heszbollah and Israel. I contend that Iran declared war on us in 1979 and that they have engaged in a secret war by proxy with the United States through Palestinian terrorist organizations that are no more than the forward contingent of their Military. These client organizations are, funded, armed; receive medical support and diplomatic cover by the Armies of Iran and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards is an elite military organization that is under the sole control of the Ayatollah and is out side the control of Iranian Generals.
This shadow war is hardly a secret but it has been ignored by most of the press and several US administrations as well as the House and Senate.
I am not including here attacks on us by other organizations like Al-Queda, or the like. I am only listing here the attacks that have been directly linked terrorist groups that are supported directly with Arms, Leadership and Money by Syria and Iran.
Here is a time line. Please do the research and check me on this. I invite your reply.
1979
November 4: The Iran hostage crisis, a 444-day standoff during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
1983
April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
October 23, The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a major incident during the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut housing U.S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, killing hundreds of soldiers. The October 23, 1983, blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the Israeli invasion in 1982, and it is considered one of the first instances of suicide bombing.
1985
June 14: TWA Flight 847 skyjacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
TWA Flight 847 was an international Trans World Airlines flight which was hijacked by Hezbollah on Friday morning, June 14, 1985, while flying from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy. The aircraft with its passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal during which one American passenger was murdered. Dozens of passengers were then held hostage over the next two weeks, until released by their captors.
October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
1993
February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills 6 and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front [4], see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef
June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
1996
June 25: Khobar Towers bombing -- In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded, by Hizballah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Hizballah) with Iranian support, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
Earlier this year
President Ahmadinejad's letter [html, pdf] to President Bush, widely interpreted as a peaceful overture, is in fact a
declaration of war. The key sentence in the letter is the closing salutation.
In an eight-page text of the letter being circulated by the Council on Foreign
Relations, it is left untranslated and rendered as "Vasalam Ala
Man Ataba'al hoda." What
this means is "Peace only unto those who follow the true path."
It is a phrase with historical significance in Islam, for, according to Islamic
tradition, in year six of the Hejira -- the late 620s -- the prophet Mohammad
sent letters to the Byzantine emperor and the Sassanid emperor telling them to
convert to the true faith of Islam or be conquered. The letters included the same
phrase that President Ahmadinejad used to conclude his letter to Mr. Bush. For
Mohammad, the letters were a prelude to a Muslim offensive, a war launched for
the purpose of imposing Islamic rule over infidels.
I'm familiar with this Muslim tradition but can't find it at the moment. I have found one of the hadith on which the tradition is based. The Muslim Students Association of the University of Southern California has helpfully provided an English translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 60: "Prophetic Commentary on the Qur'an" (Tafseer of the Prophet):
Volume 6, Book 60, Number 75: Narrated Ibn Abbas:
"In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. This letter is) from Muhammad, Apostle of Allah, to Heraclius, the sovereign of Byzantine........ Peace be upon him who follows the Right Path. Now then, I call you to embrace Islam. Embrace Islam and you will be saved (from Allah's Punishment); embrace Islam, and Allah will give you a double reward, but if you reject this, you will be responsible for the sins of all the people of your kingdom (Allah's Statement):--"O the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Come to a word common to you and us that we worship None but Allah....bear witness that we are Muslims.' (3.64)"
What else do you need to make up your mind? They took over our embassy, they killed our troops, they hung a CIA agent and put a picture on the internet. They have attempted through surrogates to blow up stuff in this country, and they have sent us what is historically their last attempt to get us to convert before they wipe us out.
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