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Feb. 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Welcome back to the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where we today, substitute teacher filling in, nonetheless, the relentless pursuit of truth continues.
And the top story, of course, of the hour all over this globe is the spasm of violence caused by cartoons.
Now, I don't know whether it's the first time in history that people have died because of cartoons.
It might not be, but it's the first time I I remember.
And just to uh recap, you know that all the from uh from Morocco to Indonesia, the Muslim world is aflame, uh burning everything in sight, uh finding I don't know where they found all these Danish flags.
I was thinking about this the other day, and then we found a Beirut guy who had actually, in anticipation of the demand for uh Danish flags, uh ordered some up and made a nice profit, which shows that capitalism can thrive no matter what.
But there's obviously uh a huge huge response.
Anti-cartoon protests have now gone online.
Islamic hackers are defacing Danish websites.
The question comes up is what is going on here?
What is going on here?
Is it as some people have written now, the clarifying moment in which the clash of civilizations becomes crystal clear to all, and the need for the world to either go one way or the other, in other words, an inevitable confrontation.
There are many in the West saying this.
The president of Iran says this as well.
He is a fan of an apocalyptic vision of Islam, which declares that within two years we will see the return of the Mahdi and the uh the triumph of Islam to cover the entire planet.
So he is in an apocalyptic vision of his own.
Or is this a moment in which people of goodwill will step back and say, well, you know, we should be respectful of Islam, but Muslims need to be respectful of the fact that there are non-Islamic places where other values are held.
You can uh say what you will about religion in Denmark, and it's not deemed to be blasphemy.
Um respect uh the prophet in Islamic areas and the two of you can coexist.
That's been sort of the way things have been going for uh a long time.
But have we reached the tipping point?
Well, someone is trying to tip us over.
And this is what I want to get into today, Lorenzo Vendino at uh National Review Online.
His column is called Creating Outrage.
Here's how it goes.
Confused by the wave of protests, threats, boycotts, and attacks against diplomatic facilities that have shaken their idyllic tranquility after the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the Danes are asking themselves questions.
They wonder if an attack will take place in their country, as threatened by various jihadi groups.
They wonder if freedom of speech is in jeopardy.
But a more immediate question is puzzling some.
Why has the outrage of the Muslim world exploded now in February, when the cartoons were published last September?
Well, there's an answer.
In the person of Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, a 60-year-old Palestinian Imam, who has been living in Copenhagen, Denmark since 1993.
He has become, for Danes, the face of Islam.
Creating his own persona of a moderate cleric who seeks dialogue but is victimized by the widespread racism of the Danes.
Abu Laban, a frequent guest on Danish television, meets frequently with government officials.
He claims to represent the voice of the local Muslim community.
Washington Post recently profiled him as one of as quote, one of Denmark's most prominent imams, unquote.
Little did they know how prominent he was.
Abu Laban's real face has been revealed, says this column.
In September, the Imam condemned the cartoons, led protests at the local level, was kind of ignored, so he left the country.
He went after contacting ambassadors from Muslim countries in Copenhagen.
He put together a delegation.
He toured the Middle East to quote, internationalize the issue, he said at the time.
Internationalized the issue so that the Danish government would realize that the cartoons were not only insulting to Muslims in Denmark, but to Muslims worldwide.
He said this in an interview with Islam on Lan.
So the delegation went out from Denmark, met with Arab League Secretary Amr Musa, grand Imam of Al-Asr Sheikh Mohammed Sayyid Tatawi, Sunni Islam's most influential scholar Yusuf Al Karadawi.
And the delegation went from one of these influential Imams to the other, showing the twelve cartoons published in Denmark.
And also two others that had never been published by anyone.
The Imam decided the twelve cartoons were not inciting enough of Muslim anger.
So he added a cartoon showing Mohammed as a pig.
The grainy cartoon shows a kind of turban headed person with a pig snout with a beard.
An example said the Imam of anti-Muslim environment, quote unquote, in Denmark.
Except that it wasn't a cartoon.
It was an associated press photo taken at a French pig squealing contest, meant to be humorous, not having anything to do with Muslims at all.
Only the French have a pig squealing championship, by the way, annual event there in France, big time stuff.
Kind of the Super Bowl of France.
Anyway, the winner is portrayed here in this AP photo, which was made grainy and then presented by the Imam in Middle East circles as a uh picture of Mohammed.
So while juicing up the presentation, the Imam uh published the cartoon, republished them, made a booklet, had contained all kinds of other lies about the quote suppression of uh Muslims in Denmark, claiming, for instance, that Muslims do not have the legal right to build mosques when they do in Denmark and have.
So Yusuf Al-Kharadawi watched this Imam work, the Middle East, and he said, this guy, by the way, is the real brains of the Muslim Brotherhood's international network, and a key opinion maker in the Middle East.
He has a weekly show on Al Jazeera.
So Karadawi, Yusuf Al-Kharadawi, picks up the Imam's slander, attacks Denmark on his weekly show, warns that an apology would not be sufficient, that a quote, firm stance, unquote, has to be taken by the Danish government, etc., etc.
In other words, he sets this up.
Well, the Danes are slowly getting a fuller portrait of all of this.
Last Friday night, Danish television broadcast a long report on Abu Laban, the Imam, and Danes are now getting an idea of what this Imam did to Denmark.
The lies he told.
And interestingly enough, forgot to mention why there was the cartoon in the Danish newspaper in the first place, which was the Danish editor who had been worried about not being able to get artists to contribute to a children's book that they wanted to put out on tolerance, trying to preach tolerance to children by Representations of what Muslims believe.
And artists were saying, Well, I don't think I want to get involved in that because Muslims might get offended.
Offended by the notion that we ought to preach tolerance to Muslims.
Therefore, I'm not going to participate.
So the editor of this newspaper said, This is really odd.
Let's do a cartoon contest about Muslims and just see if we can't get artists interested in and overcoming their fear, fear generated in part, for example, by the assassination of Van Gogh in uh the descendant of the famous artist in uh the Netherlands.
So the artists came forward, a couple of them, did these cartoons, most of which were inoffensive in any way, some of which are unintelligible.
I mean, Mohammed and a donkey, I don't know what that means.
But anyway, whatever.
And uh and and so for his efforts at tolerance, the editor now of this newspaper in Copenhagen has now uh condemned worldwide, has a bodyguard, his family's in hiding because of this craziness.
Turns out this craziness, not crazy at all.
It's part of the war against the West.
It's part of ginning up Muslim support for the radical jihad.
It's part of translating any excuse into Muslim outrage, attacks against the West, which go unrevenged, the idea that we are winning, taken to the Arab street, we are winning.
The West is weak.
We can intimidate them.
Look how Denmark is now backing up, apologizing, groveling to the Prophet.
The war is serious.
The jihadists have a strategy.
They are going to use everything they can.
By the way, the central idea of this outrage that you cannot represent Mohammed, the prophet, uh in any way, even if it's respectful because we don't represent it's idolatry and we're against idolatry and all that stuff.
Turns out that's wrong too.
In an article on the online world of the uh Wall Street Journal called Bonfire of the Pieties, Amir Tahiri says and points out many historical instances of representations of the prophet.
Even that is baloney.
I'm Roger Hitchcock.
We'll take your calls at 1800-282-2882 after the Welcome back to the Rush Show.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Russia today and tomorrow in the New York Times today.
One more news item, we'll get to the calls.
Uh one more news item.
New York Times today reporting headline, Cleric Convicted of Stirring Hate, Dateline London, a jury on Tuesday convicted Britain's most prominent radical Muslim cleric of eleven charges of soliciting murder and racial hatred for using his sermons to encourage his followers to kill non Muslims.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would think people in the United Kingdom would have this question today, following uh these uh uncontroverted facts found by a jury that uh eleven charges of soliciting murder and racial hatred, using sermons to encourage his followers to kill non-Muslims.
What is this individual doing in the UK?
And anyone like him.
Here's more of the story.
Uh the cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, 47, is the best known Islamic leader to face charges in a courtroom since the terror attacks of September 11th.
He was the imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, which became a magnet for militants, including Richard Reed, the shoe bomber, and Zacharias Musawi, now on trial in the United States in connection with the attacks.
You see Zacharias the other day doing his uh Saddam impersonation, yelling out at the judge.
He did all but call himself the president of uh of Iraq.
Anyway, um, Mr. Mossry, by the way, is also wanted in the U.S. on charges of hostage taking and conspiracy in connection with the attack in Yemen in 1998 on sixteen tourists, including two Americans.
Now here's a guy who was involved in the attack on tourists as something that uh was a pleasing to Allah, emigrates to the UK and is welcomed there as the imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque.
Now, I don't know whether you would just call this uh uh a a quaint and charming naivete before the storm.
You know, it's like setting out a picnic basket as a tornado approaches your farm.
Gee, let's just have a little picnic out here, folks.
Let's get the family all around.
Uh lay out the uh the gingham uh uh tablecloth and uh the wonderful uh uh food we've prepared here.
And uh what'd you say, Grace, uh little Johnny?
Uh oh, getting kind of loud here.
You'll have to speak up, Johnny.
Seems to be a hurricane, seems to be a tornado approaching our property.
I'm sure it's nothing.
This is the this is the attitude people have about people like this cleric cleric.
Abu Hamzal Masri.
Let's find out what you think.
Here's Matt in Redlands, California on the Rush Show.
Hi, Matt.
Hi, Roger.
These riots and protests by radical Muslims over stupid cartoons will go down in history as Europe's nine-eleven.
Just as nine-eleven finally forced America to face the fact that radical Islam is an evil movement and a threat to the very survival of America.
These violent and deadly protests in the name of stupid cartoons have finally awakened Europeans to the evil and dangers of radical Islam.
What's your evidence?
What what's your evidence for that?
I'm not sure about that.
Okay, there is evidence, and this is it.
The Europeans have traditionally well, let's just look at the war in Iraq.
They decided to side on the side of radical Islam by not supporting us, most Europeans.
But look what's happened out.
The Europeans have finally referred Iran to the UN Security Council.
Europeans have decided to no longer fund Hamas, and Europeans have traditionally sided with the Palestinians over Israel.
So if you look at what's happening, the Europeans are finally awakening.
Remember the 21 days of rioting in France.
A lot of Europeans try to dismiss that, say, well, it wasn't radical Islam.
It was just uh the people were poor and they were segregated.
But see, that was the beginning of the awakening.
This can't be denied.
Europeans love freedom of speech, and this is radical Islam with the direct attack on Europe's freedom of speech.
Europe is finally siding with America.
Well, Matt, I hope I absolutely hope you're right.
I appreciate the call.
Absolutely hope you are right.
I uh yet to be totally convinced on that.
I've seen the evidence you've seen.
I'm hopeful.
Uh I'm optimistic.
Yikes.
Uh by the way, as the facts come out about this imam in Denmark, as the facts come out of the role Iran and Syria have played in stoking the anger and turning out in Syria's case, for example, fake demonstrators.
I mean, if you think you can freely demonstrate in Syria in Damascus on any subject, uh you haven't been paying attention.
Uh when crowds turn out in Damascus, they turn out because uh pres President Assad has uh and his government has turned them out.
So uh what what is happening now is stoking these fires, and Iran has some fingerprints in this I want to get into in a moment as well.
First, let's take uh Lewis's call from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hi there.
Hey, Roger, I'm glad that you took my call.
I'd like to suggest that the raising for all of these attacks on the Danes right now are much more simple, and it's nothing more than a recruitment drive to recruit more smart bombs, and that uh we've all noticed that the attacks are down in Iraq right now, and it's good chance that maybe they're just running out of their version of the smart bomb.
Well, there's no question they're recruiting, but what what do you think what do you think the message is to try to recruit more people, more fighters, more jihadis.
Well, uh the type of person that has been doing this in the past is uh really down at the lower end of their gene pool, I believe.
Uh most of the reports of that we're getting there saying that they are not the most intelligent people, that they depend mostly on uh this inflammatory rhetoric to get them excited enough to strap a uh belt around their waist and go in and blow somebody up.
So uh that's one take that it might just be that they're uh actually going to the bottom of the gene pool and trying to do a recruitment program.
Well, they're doing a recruitment program.
I don't think there's any question about that.
Uh and I think part of the recruitment is look, we can take any silly excuse, turn out and and and uh and and you Muslims in Eurabia, otherwise uh previously known as Europe, uh, you Muslims in Urabia can say something and it's gonna be echoed by the billion Muslims uh that are not in Europe, and uh we're gonna give you muscle beyond your numbers, say your twenty million, whatever you are, uh five percent, Six percent, ten percent of the various countries in the European Union.
We're gonna give you muscle beyond all that because we're gonna give you the whole of the rest of the Muslim world standing up for you, and so whatever you demand, we're gonna get we're gonna run governments out of office.
We're gonna change policy, we're gonna suppress free speech, we're gonna get in there and turn uh Europe into the umah, the land of Islam, the way it should be, the way the Prophet wanted it to be.
Sounds like a war to me, folks.
Maybe more disastrous than we thought.
Your thoughts when we return.
I'm Roger, in for rush after this.
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Well, let's get back to the point I made at the top of this show about uh Senator Patrick Leakey and the Judiciary Committee and its grilling of Gonzales and the whole Democrat push on the uh on the domestic spying, which isn't domestic spying, it's spying on people uh and uh thank God the Bush administration is doing it, uh, who are communicating with Al Qaeda and who happen to be residing in this country, whether they're citizens or legally here or not, and there's some question about all of that, of course.
Well, let me give you an let me give you a scenario.
I was talking about this National Review Online column by Lorenzo Vedino called Creating Outrage, which outlines what is now known by about this Imam in Denmark who started all of this about the cartoons, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, a sixty-year-old Palestinian.
Now, if, for instance, let's take an hypothetical example.
Uh Imam Abu Laban places a phone call to the Imam of a New Jersey mosque.
I just want to ask a show of hands, please.
I think we'll just be able to count this really briefly.
Uh a show of hands on which of you would like the Bush administration listening in on the conversation.
Hello.
Of course you would.
Wouldn't you want to know in a time of war, given the actions of Abu Laban in creating this fire storm about these cartoons, you know, four months after the fact, wouldn't you like to know what he's trying to do with the mosque in New Jersey?
I think we should know.
I don't think that's a private phone call.
I think that's part of the war.
I don't think it has anything to do with spying on Americans.
I think it has everything to do with protecting Americans.
So Patrick Lakey, Leakey, that is my um common sense uh real world hypothetical.
If we follow Patrick Leakey, we will wind up binding the hands of the Bush administration from protecting America.
Those conversations will go on as they are going on, ladies and gentlemen, between either on the internet, either, you know, in some way, shape, or form, throw away phones, whatever it is, they're going to be coordinating, they're going to be communicating, and if we can't interrupt those communications, if we can't monitor those communications of our enemies, they will kill Americans.
And that American blood will be on Patrick Leakey.
Gideon in Long Beach, California, you're on the Rush Show.
Hi, Gideon.
Yeah, thank you so much for taking my call.
And I would like to start with the new program.
Oh, you know, getting those terrorists or the connections.
If anyone here in the United States, especially the Democrat politicians, are against it.
I afraid to be caught because they have a connection with these people.
What do you think the connection is?
Yes, the connection is you know what politics is?
Politics is a man among your business, and they're using it.
I do believe that they have a connection with Al Qaeda.
From the bottom of my heart.
I know.
Well, I understand.
Facts to pick it up?
Yeah.
You know, uh, we watching the news it's not always what we see.
But I have a feeling that there is a connection there they protect them so much.
And everything that comes to the as far as the the terrorists they jump up like they were a family.
They really forgot real fast.
September 11, I cannot believe it.
But this is number one.
Number two, I want to talk to the Muslim all over the world.
If you don't like it in here, you want to live the Muslim life, go back home.
What the heck are you doing here?
This is number one.
Well you know what they're doing here.
They're expanding they're expanding Islam.
They're expanding the I'll tell you one thing.
The terrorists are connected to their own countries.
This is not a terrorist we shouldn't separate them.
They are terrorists.
That's all I have to say and I know it.
All right Gideon thanks for the call.
You know here's here's the here's the I think what we've been the working premise in this program has been that the Democrats are using an issue as all political parties do, using issues to try to gain credibility and adherence among voters for the purpose of winning elections in the future.
The problem that I have had and many conservatives have had is that while you expect the liberal opposition to use issues to their advantage to uh blame Bush for everything that goes wrong and take credit for everything that goes right for them themselves that that's politics.
But in a time of war to take positions that are so close as to be indistinguishable from videotapes we hear from uh Al Zawahiri and and Osama bin Laden himself is starting is startling and disturbing to many Americans regardless of political affiliation.
And I think that's what that caller's talking about.
To go beyond that I I don't have any evidence whatsoever to go beyond that and assert that uh Al Qaeda and the Democrats or anybody in the United States are financially in uh in bed.
I don't know that.
Jim and Frederick Maryland go ahead Jim you're on the rush program.
Hello Roger thanks for taking my call.
Yes sir.
Uh I think the problem is the mainstream media.
I mean from Sindy Sheehan down in Texas to the bons over in Iraq or wherever I mean you get ten people together they start burning a flag and they throw cameras all over it and they stage half the events and I think that's where half of this is coming from ninety nine percent of it.
This guy says something these these things were published back in September of last year and the news doesn't pick it up and I I sat and watched the news for almost two hours before I finally heard that these things weren't even published and they were published last year.
They act like they were just published Monday.
Yep.
And it's it's a crime and I think the gentleman before me I mean what he was saying what the Democratic party kind of goes in line with I mean it's a known fact that you know Al Saheri and all these people and bin Laden listen to our news and use it against our people.
You know they quote the news they quote these senators you know Russia's pointed that out time and time again how how these when they get these videos they're quoting our own senators on the news.
Yep.
Well that's what I was saying but and and and here's here's here's what I don't want to give I don't want to give up freedom of the press because it's being exploited against us.
What I want to ask the press and uh what I try to keep aware of when I'm on a program like this is are we telling the truth?
Are we factually based?
Are we uh as one caller earlier uh took me to task are we labeling an opinion are we are we being truthful ourselves?
And I think there's no place in the media there isn't any place in the media I've ever gone to that has as much truth on it as this program and the truth we share with callers the truth we uncover the things that are shared here from all the sources we're able to glean to put the show together.
It is it is absolutely crucial that we continue to have this freedom because too much of our media is the kind of one sided partisan uh hey we're Democrats we're out of power and we got to get back in and uh Bush is adult or a conspirator or the grand wizard or whatever he is today in the uh editorial page of the New York Times craziness.
No, I don't want to give any freedom either not if not a bit not a bit.
I don't want Bush listening to my call to uh to mom Uncle Mabel whoever Uncle Mabel and Mabel or whoever I know this is California but I don't have an Uncle Mabel.
I mean I really don't this is um and I haven't gotten to any of my California stuff.
I have so much wacko California stuff to tell you.
Maybe we'll do that tomorrow.
Uh I wanted to get to this.
I don't want these riots over cartoons to block information flowing about the real threat from Iran.
First of all, to make the bridge, the um the ongoing riots, the burning of the Danish government offices in Damascus and Beirut over the weekend and all that have been put on, as I said before, apparently now, by the governments of Syria and Iran.
The Syrian regime, for example, produced in Beirut, Lebanon apparently, according to a couple of news sources in Lebanon produced a um this is an interview with uh Mr. Jumblat there in um Lebanese leader uh Vali uh Walid Jumblat in an exclusive interview says uh that this is reprinted in the World Net Daily,
this is uh what we found in these uh uh riots here in Beirut that the rioters, quote unquote, were in some cases soldiers of the Syrian army.
So we're seeing uh some of that.
Now, Iran, and I want to repeat this because it needs and uh uh uh Investors Business Daily had this in their uh in their editorial about this matter, that uh the president of Iran is uh uh Mahmood Ahmadinjad, Ahmadinejad, is uh very close.
This is the Washington Times referral is close to the uh Messianic Hajatiah society, which anticipates an apocalypse within two years.
In the Islamic religion, there is also apocalyptic vision that there would be the return of the Mahdi, some leader from way back when, and that uh the whole world would be convulsed, and that at the end of the convulsion of violence there would be the emergence of a total Islam planet.
The President of Iran believes that this is imminent, that chaos on earth will hasten paradise.
Chaos on earth.
Now, this is chilling stuff.
Absorb this for a minute.
A guy who wants nuclear weapons believes, and is building nuclear weapons, believes that chaos on earth, violence and death will lead to paradise, to the fulfillment of the apocalyptic visions of at least this Hajjata Hajitaia society.
So this isn't about sending cartoonists to set to sensitivity training.
I think it's gotten beyond that.
More of what you think when we come back.
Roger in for rush, back after this.
Roger Hedgecock Infor Rush Limbaugh, 1800-282-2882, the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here's Bud on a cell phone in Sugarland, Texas.
Hi, Bud.
Hi Hey, Roger, thanks very much for taking my call.
I'd like to tell you you're you're just right at the top of my list of uh substitutes for Rush.
You and Walter Williams.
And uh and I want to say that you have framed this and put this in perspective better than anyone else that I've heard, and you you right before the breaks touched on my my thunder that I wanted to point out uh that I felt like wasn't pointed out earlier, was that that the effect of this, you know, these cartoons back last year, you know, why did it happen now?
And I think that's what you were addressing.
And one of the main reasons and one of the effects that that's happened is that Iran's nuclear program has been pushed off the front page ever since this has happened.
And that to me, you mentioned about Al Jazeera coming uh and and and and doing what she might call media blitz in in the Muslim world to to bring this about.
And the effect of it is that now everybody's concerned and looking at this, and they're not looking at Iran's actions and Iran's nuclear program.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
But let me get back to this because the Washington Times has continued to focus on Iran.
Showdown with Iran is Kenneth Timmerman's column uh today in the Washington Times, and he's talking about uh last Saturday's resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA in Vienna reporting Iran to the Security Council at the United Nations for further action.
Not just a slap to slap on the wrist here.
This is a new consensus.
And it's something that needs to be understood because only three countries at the IAEA voted against the resolution put forward by the IAEA staff, by the way.
Only three countries voted against it Syria, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Yikes.
Not only did Russia and China vote for it, Egypt, Yemen, India, and everybody else voted for it too.
Three votes against.
Everyone else voted for it.
What does the resolution say?
It says, look, uh, you're going to not uh get nuclear uh weapons, and uh we're gonna refer you to the UN Security Council for now what the UN Security Council does, by the way, I want to get into this tomorrow.
On the United Nations, there needs to be some uh real truth telling there, and we're gonna get to it tomorrow with uh Hollywood uh star Ron Silver.
But let's today praise Secretary of State Condolisa Rice, who had met foreign ministers of Russia, China who have not been our friends in this war on terror.
France, Britain, and Germany, you know their their history, at least France uh and Germany.
And uh all of them agreed that sanctions were the way to go, that the U.N. Security Council had to meet this, that Iran could not get nuclear weapons.
John Bolton served honorably here behind closed doors.
Uh he was there in part of that diplomacy, so let's thank him, Gregory Schult or Schulte, the U.S. ambassador to the IAEA.
So there are people in the Bush administration making this uh as John Kerry wanted us to do in the last presidential election, a worldwide coalition to stop terror, and certainly everyone is starting to agree.
Iran fits the bill.
Iran fits the bill.
Why?
Why does Iran fit the bill?
What do we know?
Well, Timmerman reveals two things.
Timmerman is reveals two things, two critical pieces of information that can't convinced world leaders that there was no reasonable doubt about Iran's nuclear intentions.
And when I come back from the break, we'll talk about what those two pieces of evidence were.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back after this.
Back on the Rush Limbaugh program.
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So two central pieces of information convinced world leaders that Iran was lying, that they are proceeding to build an atomic weapon, and it gets worse.
Two critical pieces of information.
One was a laptop.
It seems that an Iranian missile technician walked into an unnamed U.S. embassy somewhere about 18 months ago.
And for once, the CIA actually listened to him instead of dismissing him as uh, you know, stories, fabrications, unverifiable.
And I'm getting this now from Timmerman's column today in the Washington Times.
He says the defector's information was considered credible because it was limited and highly detailed.
Documents on his laptop showed the Iranians were redesigning the re-entry vehicle of the Shahab III missile.
Now, background, Shahab 3 missile uh they got from North Korea.
And in North Korea, it's called the Longdong or something like that.
Or maybe that was from the Thomas hearings.
I forget.
Anyway, the Shahab III missile, the one the revolutionary guards parade in Tehran with banners, vowing it will wipe Israel off the map.
That is being redesigned to carry a nuclear payload, and there's no other way to look at it.
The documents document that the re-entry vehicle is being redesigned for nuclear weapons.
And number two, the Khan documents.
You remember the Pakistanian A.Q. Khan, who was selling on the black market uh your secrets to uh to uh nuclear weapons, and he did it again.
The Khan documents reveal that Iran is processing casting and machining uh uranium into hemispherical forms.
The only reason you do that is to build nuclear weapons.
Everyone is now convinced that lies notwithstanding to the contrary, Iran is building nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
A chilling moment in human history.
Do we have the backbone again to stand up to tyranny?
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
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