Gareth Porter, a renowned American historian and investigative journalist, writing for The Grayzone, an independent news website, wrote that a “careful study of the enormous cache of internal al-Qaeda documents released by the US government in 2017 further discredited the tall tale of Iranian facilitation of al-Qaeda terrorism.
“Nelly Lahoud, a senior fellow at the New American Foundation and former senior research associate at the West Point Combating Terrorism Center, translated and analyzed 303 of the newly available documents and found nothing indicating Iranian cooperation with, or even knowledge about the whereabouts of Zarqawi or other al-Qaeda military leaders prior to their detentions of April 2003.
“Lahoud explained in a September 2018 lecture that all actions by al-Qaeda operatives in Iran had been ‘conducted in a clandestine manner’.
“She even discovered from one of the documents that al-Qaeda had considered the clandestine presence of those officials and fighters so dangerous that they had been instructed on how to commit suicide if they were caught by the Iranians.”
Porter’s article is unlikely to be highlighted or discussed by the corporate media of NATO member states as it undermines their propaganda narrative.
Courtesy: the Grayzone
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