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...passengers-passed through Iran in the period from October 2000 to February 2001. Sources also tell TIME that Commission investigators found that Iran had a history of allowing al-Qaeda members to enter and exit Iran across the Afghan border. This practice dated back to October 2000, with Iranian officials issuing specific instructions to their border guards-in some cases not to put stamps in the passports of al-Qaeda personnel-and otherwise not harass them and to facilitate their travel across the frontier. The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was aware of the plans...
...senior official also told TIME that the report will note that Iranian officials approached the al-Qaeda leadership after the bombing of the USS Cole and proposed a collaborative relationship in future attacks on the U.S., but the offer was turned down by bin Laden because he did not want to alienate his supporters in Saudi Arabia...
...four years later. By the time of Iraq's conflict with Iran in the 1980s, he had become commander of the Iraqi Special Forces School. During the war, the combat vet led a daring helicopter-borne recapture of Iraq's strategic Kardamand mountain, held by thousands of dug-in Iranian defenders. But Saddam distrusted such displays of talent and in 1984 put the general under mukhabarat surveillance...
...your coverage of the controversy surrounding Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council and a former U.S. ally [May 31]: The Bush Administration neoconservatives should be fired for their support of Chalabi, who misled American leaders into attacking Iraq. Now Chalabi is being investigated for telling an Iranian spy about our having broken an Iranian secret code. That's a serious charge. Who revealed classified information to Chalabi, and will those people be fired? Or will Bush, as usual, not hold them accountable for their mistakes? John Wisdom Dancer Canoga Park...
...June 7]: The Bush Administration neoconservatives should be fired for their support of Chalabi, who misled American leaders into attacking Iraq. Your story quoted Richard Perle, a Bush defense adviser, who stated that "the CIA has concocted a case against" Chalabi. But he is being investigated for telling an Iranian spy about our having broken an Iranian secret code, a serious charge. Who revealed classified information to Chalabi, and will those people be fired? Or will Bush, as usual, not hold them accountable for their mistakes? JOHN WISDOM DANCER Canoga Park, Calif...