06-09-2009, 10:09 AM
Helen Reyes Wrote:October Surprise was about taking and keeping Americans hostage in Tehran, not about releasing them.
Amen...
Helen Reyes Wrote:Thatcher, Bush and Reagan met in 1978 to plan the downfall of Carter and the Democrats who were doing terrible things to their secret agencies. Khomeini was supported to power by the US, by operatives working for the secret team or shadow government. They got him across borders, they staged riots, they placed media items with predicted results in the Iranian press.
...and quite so.
In all frankness, I don't repose much trust in "Trail of the Octopus," and nor do I think the murder of Casolaro was undertaken for the reasons set out, but I did enjoy your explanation, and thank you for it.
I still think this man was (is) the key to Lockerbie, but undoubtedly other itches were simultaneously scratched:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt_Carlsson
The stakes played for here dwarf all the other reasons I've seen adduced; and lead us into territory not in the Middle East, but a series of assassinations in Southern Africa, culminating, most notably, in this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hani
Paul