Iran did not hold him, he had safe haven and weapons supplied to al-qaida and any intel that was available !

Wow, where do these "jounalists" come up with this stuff. Oh yeah, forgot.....NBC.

Suleiman Abu Ghaith will not provide ANY information on al Qaida, but probably demand time on TV for recruitment purposes. Now, if he was in a MILITARY COURT he might spill some beans.

Talk about living in a fantasy World.

tenet did the very same thing they are accusing assange of doing & worse , tenet is giving names

"The faction in Iran, which with family and bodyguards numbered in the hundreds, bribed their way into the country but was rounded up not long afterward. As one U.S. official told NBC News Thursday, what happened next occurred inside the "blackest of the black boxes" of Iran's intelligence apparatus."

There is nothing wrong in listening to what Ghaith and co have to say.

But we should not trust much on what they say including Iranians.

Most of the "strategic allies" like Saudis and Pakis have proved to be most ungrateful backstabbers.

Corrupt among them look to short-range interests and high dosage Islamic heroin addicts want to convert world to Islamic rule in the long range.

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Who cares? I'm more concerned with how Odumbo treats Israel.

But is this really the best news you can come up with NBC? How about covering the email from the Odumbo administration to the USDA with instructions to make their sequestration cutes as painful as possible to be inline with Odumbos doomsday predictions?

Oh wait - I forget, NBC doesn't cover anti-Odumbo news.

But I guess that's why NBC came in last place when people were polled to name their most trusted news network. Oops - tied for last - with THE COMEDY CHANNEL! And also why NBC finished last in Feb sweeps. But that's ok, I'm actually enjoying watching NBC's ship sink.

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NBC sure thinks Americans are suckers!!!!!

Have you ever read such blatant propaganda in your life?

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There is someone out there right now walking around believing this NBC tripe.

Amazing!!!

J.P. Well, at least they didn't doctor any video tapes today - a step up for NBC!

Had to save this paragraph for posterity:

The statement, which was referenced in his court appearance, is expected to shed light on the accuracy of intelligence gathered by the U.S. in months after 9-11 indicating that the so-called al-Qaida “management council” detained in Iran was still conducting business, even discussing procurement of nuclear weapons.

al Qaida was allowed to seek nuclear weapons while detained in Iran during their weekly trek to the grocery store. You know the one. The store with plutonium on aisle 6.

Are there really people out there that lap this stuff up?! Yes, I believe there are. Amazing!!!

This sure is getting interesting though. Wonder if it really is the son-in-law and not some sap that is dieing of cancer or something and the CIA promised to take care of his family if he played a role. Sure is interesting either way.

What next in the bs story of 9/11 ?

This is sounding and looking like one huge catastrophic set up for something bigger than we have ever seen. What if he was supposed to be caught and brought here.

We need to be highly attentive, pay very close attention, be weary, cautious and for the love of God keep our eyes and ears open with clarity. This is not a time for us to claim any victory and above all don't let our gaurd down even momentarily.

This is like holding a stick of sweating dynamite while standing on a glass floor 50 stories above concrete hoping it doesn't drip.

I would be surprised if Iran didn't treat them better than other prisoners. Especially considering how badly they treat our prisoners and woman prisoners in general. And it would be just like Iran to support terrorism (they are known to do that) in this way as well. Having said that, we need more information before we can form accurate opinions on this. Speculation alone isn't enough.

Obama is unwilling to put this terrorist under durress thus no information will be gained from him. All that will happen is a show trail.

Hope this show trail has better results than the last one. The government looked incompetent during the last show trail.

Ok drums for Iran War is approaching. Trying to link who knows what with Iran, I mean it is obvious that Iran is relatively closer with Al-Qaida, because Iran sees US as enemy, but trying to link Iran with every bad thing in the world to start a war is ridiculous. Iran will get nuclear weapon and no country will invade it and Israel needs to figure that problem out.

US can't be wasting its dollars and lives around the world while its bridges and roads are crumbling shouldn't make sense. US wasted trillions of dollar and its reputation for Israel. Now it is time for little peace and development. Israel should fight Iran on its own. If millions die between Iran and Israel, then that is what happens. Israel needs to be a big boy one way or another. By the way, I have all the respect for Israel and its people and culture.

WE"LL Get them, No matter Where They HIDE!

I can't see how Al Qaida, which is run by a bunch of Sunni fantatics who hate Shiites more than the US, will try to ally itself in any way with a Shiite country like Iran.

Al Qaida has done an immense amount of damage on Shiite communities in Iraq, Pakistan and Syria so there's no way Iran is going to try to work with any Al Qaida member.

Iran is Shia and Al Qaida is sunni. How is it possible that Iran will help Al Qaida? Looks like this is going to be Iran's gulf of Tonkin or "WMDs".

One thing Shea and Sunni seem to always agree on is hatred for the West, so that's how it's possible that Iran will help Al Qaida, temporary understanding against the common enemy.

The only question is weather it will happen before or after they do a number on each other, and that should provide an answer for every one who is wondering why USA is getting involved in all that mess in Syria. More of each other they kill now, less of them is left to attack us later.

Oh yes... Iran is helping the Al Quaida terrorists, just like Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11... (rolls eyes) The US propaganda machine sells this sort of garbage to American people all the time so that they are running scared of the big bad wolf out there...

The sad thing about your dumb comment is that you believe it,Ditto Head...

Look for Obama to pardon and then appoint Suleiman Abu Ghaith to some cabinet post! This would not surprise me at all.

Not sure if he could do a better job than Janet Incompentano is doing at Homeland Security! What a mess she is... and loved by obama, lol!

I have no faith at all that this administration could possible glean any information from this guy or any terrorist captured by our military! I wouldn't be surprised if they don't release him to attend the funeral services for Hugo Chavez... they let Jesse Jackson go!

Obama administration is not that bad considering the mess left by Bush administration.

Of course, there are Hillarys, Kerrys, Holders, Liebermanns to mess up much. At least some are on the payrolls of lobbyists of oil industry, arms industry and some Jewish lobbys.

Republicans are equally worse. Many are in the payrolls of oil industry, arms industry, Christian right and their lobbyists.

Sally that is a ggod one.

Secretary of State is cluesless who is the enemy.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday that "upon further review," the department would not present the award.

"We never presented it. We've decided that we will not present it," she said.

Ibrahim initially claimed she had been hacked. But now she is defiantly refusing to apologize to what she calls the "Zionist lobby in America" for her "previous anti-Zionist statements."

In July of last year, after five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed in a bombing, a tweet on Ibrahim's account said: "An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news."

As a mob was attacking the United States embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11 of last year, pulling down the American flag and raising the flag of Al Qaeda, a tweet on her account said: "Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning." The tweet was deleted a couple of hours later, but not before a screen shot was saved by an Egyptian activist.

I want to know if after Abu Ghaith was capture and read his Miranda rights our government gather some information, under soft interrogation.

.. The DumFux knuckledraggers are here i see .

littlemisschief; you should not talk about yourself like that, people might start wondering about you!!!

Secretary of State is clueless who is the enemy.

oskar, I heard about that too! Yet another 'oops' for the President via swift boat Kerry, lol!

Surprisingly the old liberal media hasn't picked up on the story... or they did and are intentionally ignoring it.... and Barry was sooo very anxious to hand this enemy of the USA the humanitarian award too!

bet he has already fill out his welfare app. and already is getting food stamps ! lol

When I read the first paragraph (a run-on sentence) I was sort of confused:

The arrest and trial of alleged al-Qaida spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith may resolve a long-standing debate inside the U.S. intelligence community on what Iranian officials did with members of the terrorist group who snuck into the country shortly after 9-11, hoping they would be treated, if not warmly, then as "the enemy of my enemy," as one U.S official put it.

Hoping? Why are we hoping Iran treated them kindly? More justification? Warmongering?

The way it is written, it is a little ambiguous whether "U.S. intelligence community" or "members of the terrorist group" are the one's doing the "hoping".

Then this quote has me scratching my head because I don't know why our government would think Iran gives a crap about our interests or why they would be against covert nuclear acquisition.:

We passed this information to the Iranians in the hope that they would recognize our common interest in preventing any attack against U.S. interests.

aNoZ:

Your remarks are so true... But what do you expect from the alphabet Stations/sites.

I think they were saying the terrorist group was "hoping " Iran would treat them kindly.

It will not be a surprise at all.

If Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are strategic allies, anything is possible.

9/11 had Saudi and Paki hands. It was Iraq and Afghanistan that got attacked.

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"Then this quote has me scratching my head because I don't know why our government would think Iran gives a crap about our interests or why they would be against covert nuclear acquisition.:

We passed this information to the Iranians in the hope that they would recognize our common interest in preventing any attack against U.S. interests."

Do you need it spelled out? If Iran were to help Al-Qaida in any that could be used against us, that would not be in our best interests, and when we reward them by giving them a country size glass factory, that would not be in their best interests.

I don't mind saying, that is the most stupid thing I have ever heard.

Apparently sick and tired does not recognize sarcasm when she sees it...

Oh - keep reading. Lots of stupid posts here. The knuckleheads got out. And Robin, how WOULD we detect the subtle - nay, nonexistent - inference? Yep, plenty of stupid here.

Yep, here are some of the women who followed Mr. Biden's advice and bought shotguns:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEd6MNihlg

You mean the same Joe Biden who owned Paul Ryan?

Owned Paul Ryan? Hell Joe doesn't even know what day it is. His handlers told him to laugh a lot and under no circumstances attempt to answer any question's. Joe is a life long politician, Thats it!!

Is Joe Biden still VP?

Many thought that he had gone to some mental hospital!

Theo

No the Same Joe Biden that acted like an A$$ in front of the whole world.

Nooooooooo that would be George W Bush and his war profiteer vice President Dick Chaney.

little miss chief; why do you ignorant libs always try to blame bush still five years later??? It is time to accept responsibility for odumbass and his incompetence in leadership!!!

Biteme did nothing but show just how little respect he has for this country with the way he acted, he proved that both him and odumbass have no respect for anyone or anything, it is about power and control and nothing else. You ignorant libs are nothing but a bunch of usefulidiots to them and the fact that you still bring up bush just proves that you are not smart enough to know when you are being used and made a fool of...

Grow up little miss chief and become an adult so that maybe you will not be to badly used by the liars and thiefs that are using all of you usefulidiot libs....

Read some real history and see what happens to the usefulidiots throughout history when the power mongers are through with them!!! That way you know what your future is if you do not wake up soon!

I'm more interested in the 3.2 trillion Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for on 09/10/01. Seems like the next day that story was over with.....Way to go "press".

Let me guess, Luke, you stopped reading the papers a long time ago when things got too confusing for you. No Iranian links with terrorism? Have you heard of Hezbollah in Lebanon or Hamas in the West Bank?. So you think that these documented ties are less real because Iranians don't acknowledge them. Purple unicorns keep you safe at night while fairies escort drunks and fools home. You seem to have no idea of where the risks come from or who or what keeps you safe. You probably like it better that way.

gov=joke,

Here's some info for you.

Summarising, then, the argument appears to run something like this.

Huge sums of defence budget money have gone missing.

Simply admitting this was not an option.

However, those pulling off the 9/11 "inside job" decided that if they crashed into just the right spot of the Pentagon, then they could kill many of those who might uncover the problem or tell the public about it, and perhaps also destroy vital documentary evidence.

What's more, it gave the opportunity for Rumsfeld to inform the public on September 10th, and have his bombshell ignored courtesy of the attacks on the very next day.

Makes sense? To some, apparently, based on the sites and forum posts we've seen, but if you take a closer look at the information they've left out then a very different picture emerges.

The first problem with some reports on this issue comes in how they describe the money. In extreme cases it's treated almost as though it's been "stolen", while other sites ambiguously say it's "missing". 911Research above are more accurate in saying it could not be accounted for, or tracked. Here's where Rumsfeld spoke about this on 9/10, with a little more context (our emphasis):

The adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy. Not the people, but the processes. Not the civilians, but the systems...

In this building, despite this era of scarce resources taxed by mounting threats, money disappears into duplicative duties and bloated bureaucracy—not because of greed, but gridlock. Innovation is stifled—not by ill intent but by institutional inertia.

Just as we must transform America's military capability to meet changing threats, we must transform the way the Department works and what it works on...

Our challenge is to transform not just the way we deter and defend, but the way we conduct our daily business...

The men and women of this department, civilian and military, are our allies, not our enemies. They too are fed up with bureaucracy, they too live with frustrations. I hear it every day. And I'll bet a dollar to a dime that they too want to fix it. In fact, I bet they even know how to fix it, and if asked, will get about the task of fixing it. And I'm asking.

They know the taxpayers deserve better. Every dollar we spend was entrusted to us by a taxpayer who earned it by creating something of value with sweat and skill -- a cashier in Chicago, a waitress in San Francisco. An average American family works an entire year to generate $6,000 in income taxes. Here we spill many times that amount every hour by duplication and by inattention.

That's wrong. It's wrong because national defense depends on public trust, and trust, in turn, hinges on respect for the hardworking people of America and the tax dollars they earn. We need to protect them and their efforts.

Waste drains resources from training and tanks, from infrastructure and intelligence, from helicopters and housing. Outdated systems crush ideas that could save a life. Redundant processes prevent us from adapting to evolving threats with the speed and agility that today's world demands.

Above all, the shift from bureaucracy to the battlefield is a matter of national security. In this period of limited funds, we need every nickel, every good idea, every innovation, every effort to help modernize and transform the U.S. military....

The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.

We maintain 20 to 25 percent more base infrastructure than we need to support our forces, at an annual waste to taxpayers of some $3 billion to $4 billion. Fully half of our resources go to infrastructure and overhead, and in addition to draining resources from warfighting, these costly and outdated systems, procedures and programs stifle innovation as well. A new idea must often survive the gauntlet of some 17 levels of bureaucracy to make it from a line officer's to my desk. I have too much respect for a line officer to believe that we need 17 layers between us....
[plenty more here, please go read the whole thing]
http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=430

It's not that the money is "missing", then, at least according to Rumsfeld, more that incompatible and aging financial systems don't allow it to be tracked throughout the system. A DoD news document from April 2002 spelled this out even more clearly:

In fiscal 1999, a defense audit found that about $2.3 trillion of balances, transactions and adjustments were inadequately documented. These "unsupported" transactions do not mean the department ultimately cannot account for them, she advised, but that tracking down needed documents would take a long time. Auditors, she said, might have to go to different computer systems, to different locations or access different databases to get information.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44199

English is also a very bulky language with insane grammatical rules compared to older germanic and romantic languages.

Just another overreach by Obama administration he is going to push the people until their ready foe a civil war. If that's what he wants he may get it.

Oh Sarah honey, it's 2013 and every modern dictionary legitimatizes "snuck". What I wonder about is why the need to "correct" grammar and totally ignore a very serious topic. Astounding, indeed!

Ohfer ... English is "THE" official language of our country. To expect a journalist of a major news outlet to correctly use our language, should be expected by ALL! The bastardization of English, despite your passive attitude, should be a concern to all who care.

It's hard to look at the subject matter of an article when it is so poorly written!

Being a bastardized language is the essence of English. Obstensibly a Germanic language, huge number of French words from the Normans, plus other languages creeping in ranging from Japanese to Arabic.

yup, he's going to 'lawyer up' and there's nothing we can do about it! He's a terrorist, a guy sworn to bring the USA down, yet we give him the same treatment as a Times Square pick pocket! Go figure?

Gee, I always thought that when God said be fruitful and multiply, he was talking about homosexual mathematicians.

The only socialistic program that is really talked about in the Lords book is that men are to work until the Sabbath day and then rest. With that in mind No One would need the socialist program you speak of except for the crippled and diseased. What we have here is a monetary draining of our system caused by Laziness, Greed and Envy which are the roots to Evil not of the Lord or our God almighty.

Do not manipulate the teaching of the holy spirit and the scriptures given to us do to it to bend our wills to meet your Lazy, greedy, envious ways of life. For if this becomes the way of our daily lives then evil has taken over the multitudes and Satan is fully empowered which is at hand as I speak of it.

"the senior al-Qaida leadership in Saudi Arabia was negotiating for the purchase of three Russian nuclear devices,” Tenet wrote."

If this report is true, there are some major dangers to the US and allies and Iran.

It is difficult to guess what these Sunni Islamic religious Nazis will do.

I fail to understand: when these al-Qaida people can get nukes cheaply from Pakis, why should they go for buying them from Russians?

Because maybe Russia is behind the entire destruction that is in the midst of being carried out against us?

Obvious from your statement you have no clue what you are talking about. Of course you are an obamabot so it your intellectual level is questionable at best. There were spinter groups of Al Qaeda operating in Iraq. Before and after Saddam. At least Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Reid, Senator obama, Hillary, John Kerry and Clinton's NSA Adviser Sandy Berger. Maybe do some fact checking before you speak.

North Korea may not have oil, but they do have several thousand rockets and artillery pieces aimed at the factories that make wide screen tvs, smart phones, cars, and other trinkets that Americans love so much. Can't afford to have them destroyed.

navyvet, waaay to much Fox News and Rush Limbo listening for you. Don't you know that university studies have shown that Fox watchers become stupider? You're the perfect example, the poster boy for Fox watchers.

Times-Running-Out, you show your stupidity. He's not being tried in Civil Court, he's being tried in Criminal Court. Get your head out of your ass.

Bush didn't dare upset his buddies in Saudi Arabia!! He has business deals that supersede anything! I wouldn't be surprised if he were protecting Osama all those years!! Gee, what a surprise, to not allow US troops secure the one possible escape route!! Sounds rather fishy!!!