Iran’s Bloody Hands The Mastermind of the Khobar Towers Attack is Reported Captured.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-bloody-hands-1440717097
Barack Obama isn’t the first President to overlook Iran’s bloody hands in hopes of better relations. Bill Clinton did much the same when the FBI’s investigation into the 1996 Khobar Towers attack began pointing to Iran.
The Khobar bombings killed 19 American airmen who were living in those towers. Then-FBI director Louis Freeh has written of how his efforts to press the Clinton Administration into an investigation of Iran’s role came to nothing. In 2001 a grand jury indicted 13 Saudis and an unknown Lebanese and implicated Iranian officials in the killings.
Now the Saudis are reported to have in custody the man believed to have masterminded the attack. His name is Ahmed al-Mughassil, and he is a member of Saudi Hezbollah. He was picked up in Beirut after arriving there from Iran.
No doubt the capture of al-Mughassil would have been more convenient for President Obama after his nuclear deal with Iran was in place. That is why it’s so important for Members of Congress to take note. From the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon to the Khobar Towers to the Iranian-made IEDs that took the lives of many of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran and its proxies have never hesitated to shed American blood.
In 2006, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled the Iranian government financed the Khobar bombing and ordered Tehran to pay $254 million to the victims. He also concluded that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had approved the attack. Last year the same judge ordered Iran to pay $454 million to relatives of victims of the Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon.
Good luck collecting. Meantime, we are about to hand $100 billion to this regime simply for promising it won’t build a nuclear weapon—even as Mr. Obama says he’s under “no illusions” that Tehran will use some of its bonanza to fund terrorism. There is a huge disconnect here that is becoming impossible not to see.
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