I’ve asked that same question too, Mark, what national or international landmark would the lefties hate to lose? They didn’t care about the Bhuddah statues in Afghanistan. But what about the Louvre? The Eiffel Tower? The Golden Gate Bridge? The Kremlin? Woodstock?

What city would they want revenge for? San Fransisco? Amsterdam? Paris? Montreal? Sydney?

What does it take for self-preservation to kick in? Walk up to a lib and punch him in the face. If he gets up and is about to fight back, say “No, no, you’re against violence, remember?”

Everyone knows those links exist already — except the American left, of course, and the “international community” (which knows but pretends not to).

You know, I wonder when the left WILL get it. What will happen after the first city (probably in Europe) gets a big dirty bomb or a thermonuclear bomb exploded in its city center? Will the left even get it then?

Since a smoking gun isn’t good enough I wonder if a smoldering metropolis and a few hundred thousand dead will be good enough for them to actually do something. Something other than owing defeat and surrender.

What’s RONCTTLA?

- The Cat

Like Yo said, could be a plant. Trust but verify. Take his info but keep gathering our own intel, match it up. If he’s not a plant, the Pers … um, *Iranians*, will be forced to make changes, exposing themselves to prying eyes.

Wasn’t there a defecting Persian soldier, or a slave, who escaped and told the Greeks that “Xerox” was planning an invasion?

Tony737 on March 9, 2007 at 10:45 AM

Considering this guy was missing for a month, I wonder how long it took to get satellites on installations depicted on his maps.
Any secret installations that we may not have known about would be found, and any changes to security around those installations could be watched.
I doubt it would have taken long to establish the validity of what he had when a few satellite shots would have determined if his maps (and other information) were accurate.

Amir Taheri has a good roundup of events regarding Ali-Reza Askari…

Interesting case, and I can’t really compete with Allah’s roundup this morning on the guy–except to note that Ahmedinejad fired him when he was elected: Alireza Nourizadeh, a London-based journalist, says the retired general also played a role in Le…

Wasn’t there a defecting Persian soldier, or a slave, who escaped and told the Greeks that “Xerox” was planning an invasion?

Tony737 on March 9, 2007 at 10:45 AM

Actually he your talking of the defector that left the Greeks and told “Xerxes” of the goat path.

I’m as dubious as you are that Iran would let this guy leave with papers in his pockets. Since he’s reportedly been retired for a few years now, either he still had access to secret data or he’s kept secrets stowed away somewhere until this “defection.”

Here’s how the information on ties helps us though. It’s true that ties between Iran and various terrorist groups are no secret, but the General will have information on what methods, personnel and pathways Iran uses to funnel money and weapons to various groups. Such information is critical to shutting down those pipelines or monitoring them for further intel. Bagging a few intermediaries and closing funding sources would disrupt Iran’s ability to assist those groups, particularly if they want to maintain deniability (which they do.). In short, the details and minutiae of the connections matter. A lot.

Wasn’t there a defecting Persian soldier, or a slave, who escaped and told the Greeks that “Xerox” was planning an invasion?

Everyone knows those links exist already — except the American left, of course…

Somehow, “Asgari lied! People died!” just doesn’t have a very compelling ring to it.

Or maybe it was a rhetorical exit question.