Stanford CIS

UK Linked to Terror? At least under guilt by association

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on

The 9/11 Commission will report on possible connections of Iran to the 9/11 hijackers.  As per a CNN.com report:

The commission has found that eight to 10 of the hijackers passed through Iran between October 2000 and February 2001, Time magazine reported this week.

The magazine said that commission investigators have found that Iran had a history of allowing al Qaeda members to enter and leave the country across the Afghan border.

But the report does not offer evidence that Tehran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attack.

If the standard for guilt is whether Al Queda members traveled freely through the country, then a large number of countries are guilty of being associated with terror--the U.K., Germany, and the United States.

The question should be: Did Iran know that Al Queda members were meeting there?  If that is true, then we should ask for world condemnation of that country.

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