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Subscribe to RSSTwo Iranian agents arrested in Kenya were planning attacks on American, Israeli, British or Saudi Arabian targets in the African country, the Associated Press reported on Monday, citing unnamed Kenyan officials.
According to the AP report, Kenyan security forces arrested the Iranians last month. The agents led security officials to 33 pounds of RDX, a powerful explosive, in the coastal city of Mombasa near where several Israeli-owned hotels are located.
The officials told the AP that the plot appeared to fit into a pattern by Iranian agents to target foreign interests.
The Iranians are members of the secretive and elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, one official told the AP.
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Hmmmm, Iranian agents planning attacks agains U.S. and Isaeli targets, who would've thought.
Read the whole AP story. Talk about amateur hour. The Quds are definitely no MI6
I hear you but remember, there's a learning period. With time, amateurs can become professionals. Never let your guard down.
Oh yeahhhh,,,,,, I heard Iran was paying Japanese whalers to surgically implant satellite guided nuclear torpedoes.
Is this another addition to the 'get ready for war' propaganda from the US war mongers and war lovers?
Daniel Sloan, just because two are caught doesn't mean the Quds should be dismissed as amateurs. Although they may not approach to the level of M16, they are more than enough to be considered as the elites and the Israeli analysts regarded the Quds as one of the best special forces units in the world.
Sub Sahara Africa is the latest battleground for the Islamic terrorsts.Iran ,of course will be there.They have committed terrorist attacks on 6 continents.and both North Africa and Sub Sahara are part of their mass murders.I personally have seen the result of 2 huge bombing in Buenas Aires.Hundreds of people killed and wounded and 2 buildings blown to smithereens.Iran is the greatest threat to world peace since the nazis and Japanese in the 1930's.Soon the regimen of the ayatollahs will bite the dust from a multi national coalition.Most of the world will cheer.! 33 years of holding the world hostage with terrorists acts will come to an end .Bye bye ayatollahs!
some people are so blind if their own family was killed in a strike from another country then that country took credit for it on national news and paraded their family's bodies down the streets they would think its a conspiracy by the US government.. or "propaganda" and the videos are a hoax
and who said , the Mossad you know this BS getting old ,it sound like WMD all over again, last week Isreal and the US were trying to cyber attack Iran , but we said before if they try to cyber attack , its war , I wish we leave these people a;lone and let I Israel take of there own problems ,they are not as nice as we think they are.
No one is as nice as we think they are, including us.
Iran stated that Israel should be wiped off the map and preaches it to its people. And Israel stated it will not tolerate a nuclear Iran at all. And with sanctions eatin away at Iran's economy, the revolutionary guard is looking for an excuse to strike.
Oh yeah Andy and the moon is made of green cheese. No one ever said Iran was going to wipe Israel off the map. Just who do you think the revolutionary guard is going to strike? What weapons would the Revolutionary Guard use? They have no nukes and no nuclear weapons program, no blue water navy, a small air force. Get your head our of your anus.
Kenyan security forces said Iran's actions fit a pattern. Pray tell, what would Kenyan security forces know about a pattern used by Iran. This is another bulls-t story, made up to demonize Iran. Iran has greater capability than sending a couple of yo yos to Kenya, where they are so stupid they are caught before doing anything. This story is right in line with the other alleged Iranian plots, where no one gets hurt and Iran is identified as the bad guy.
UM RALPH
u r very wrong
irans president stated israel needs to be wiped off the face of the planet
constantly, and im not to sure how anyone who watches the news wouldnt know this
maybe you need to watch the news once in a while
u start making rude statements and they fit you better
geeze
Ralph has been constantly reminded by many newsviner who suspect him of being an Iranian agent.He is a beliver of the nazi school of the BIG LIE.He continues to muck up Newsvine with his anti Israel and anti Jewish obsessive ranting.Don´t worry Keith !.Most people on Newsvine have his number!
RalphH you are not serious are you??
On more than one occasion this has been stated, if they do not even sell a newspaper where you are I am surprised to see you commenting on the internet. Do not defend what you most obviously have no idea on, get back on your camel and keep on riding.
If you think anyone is listening to your absolute, no intelligence garbage, get a grip on reality. The rest of the world is not as stupid as you seem to be.
well you dont need enrichment over 20% for ANYTHING other than Nuclear Weapons. You cant even use it for medical or any other BS... So yes they are building Nuclear weapons..
lol, I knew someone would bring up Israel as soon as Iranian agents were mentioned. You conspiracy guys are so predictable.
Do you mean those crazy conspiracy nuts that actually read the article ... and the headline.
No SHIIIT Anilof Who in the hell you think started all this ?? Mexico .... you know either you think people are dumb or you just do not give a dammm , Israel attack and kill Iranian's scientists and they admitted , But when Iran does it , its terrorist . But God forbid any body mention Israel , they are the Chosen ones . SORRY buddy but this BS getting little old .
It's not about who is chosen, it's about methods and motivations.
Those guys were headed to blow up hotels, that's rather different than targeting someone who is building a bomb.
Also, Iranians are the ones pushing the envelope here. Their leaders are going around screaming that "Israel is a cancer that should be removed". Excuse Israel if they are getting a little jumpy when they hear something like that.
Eli - Were they going to blow up hotels like the King David Hotel, blown up by the Israeli hero named Shamir?
Israel is a cancer that should be removed. Hell, they assassinated JFK, attacked the USS Liberty and were complicit in 9/11. Isn't that enough to slap them with the cancer tag? It wasn't Iran that rigged the WTCs to fall in a controlled demolition. It was the Mossad.
They assassinated JFK and rigged WTC? you sir, are demented.
Ralph has been spotted as a possible Iranian agent by several Newsviner and as a virulent nazi type BIG LIAR for his comments about Israel and the Jews.Yet he continues his hallucinations.BIG LIES and invented history and current affairs.Newsvine has banned hin several times but he keeps coming back.I guess its up to the rest of the Newsviners to keep him in check.His popularity is less than 1% on Newsvine ,so we have to keep him in quarantine .Everyday he improvises more and more ridiculous stories.Well Newviner..as boring and as tedious as he is, he must be watched and kept on his leash..No other choice for this anti Semitic fiend and teller of tall,tall tales!!
Ralph
You are a pathetic uneducated racist, and the only good racist is a dead one.
In the 1950's the US helped Iran start its nuclear program. Now we're afraid they'll be successful, so we're desperately trying to find some
reasonexcuse to go to war with them. It's no wonder the Iranians hate Americans, since we engineered the overthrow of their duly elected government to install the Shah as their ruler in order to have a base close enough to fight the Russians from. Just get out of the Middle East altogether, leave Iran and Syria alone.Mantuin you join Ralph H as card carrying member of the Invented history ,BIG LIE misinformation club.Complete nonnense is what you write. In a survey about 80% of young Iranains would leave Iran if they could.And many would go to the U.S .A large % would also hang they ayatollah, .if they could get their hands on them. But 33 years of a brutal police state with murderous secret service people everywhere makes it VERY difficult to overthrow this monstrous regime.Remeber what happened with the demonstrations after the last elections.Murder,torture and disappeared.And we only know the tip of the iceburg .Mathuin come up with more believable stories.As much as the Shah might have been hated .the hated for the ayatollahs and their perveretd Islamic revolution is MANY time more.!
bart, you are an idiot! It's not an invented history, it's a historical fact (see link below).
When Iranians took U.S. officials hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Americans were mystified and angry, not being able to comprehend how Iranians could be so hateful toward U.S. officials, especially since the U.S. government had been so supportive of the shah of Iran for some 25 years. What the American people failed to realize is that the deep anger and hatred that the Iranian people had in 1979 against the U.S. government was rooted in a horrible, anti-democratic act that the U.S. government committed in 1953. That was the year the CIA secretly and surreptitiously ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, a man named Mohammad Mossadegh, from power, followed by the U.S. government's ardent support of the shah of Iran's dictatorship for the next 25 years.
Read the rest of it here:
Here is the link: www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp
And they would just love to have an even more powerful explosive! A nuclear suicide bomb would affect the whole world; a radioactive atmosphere will not respect national borders. Iran can not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.
our government is always telling us how bad the other guy is.... odd that it is our government doing all the talking isn't it? 33 pounds of rdx lol you can make a explosive out of baking soda and bleach and vinergar.... household products but that doesn't mean your going to make a bomb does it? I clean with my cleaning supplies...getting alittle tired of the scare tatics.....
I don't think it would matter if Iranian "agents" were plotting to - or even SUCCEEDED - in destroying a target here in the United States...Americans aren't falling for it this time. We're not going into Iran. Actually we can't go into Iran. This wouldnt' be like invading Kabul - war with Iran would require a draft. No way on earth anyone would tolerate a draft after the last decade of ridiculous wars we've been fighting.
critical times hard to deal with, will be here.
Sounds like Curveball all over again. You can't trust ANYTHING the AP reports, they are bought & paid for. These are the same jack booted thugs who lied us into the Iraq war. Foo me once, shame on you, foo me twice, can't be food again.
You have no idea. Do some independent research on chemical, biological, and nuclear weapon development, production, usage in Iraq.
There were thousands of Iranians and Kurds killed by Sadams regime who utilized chemical weapons. Last time I checked chemical weapons were classified as WMD's and are forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Not to mention that he attacked during his reign: Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran. Chemical weapons were used in many of these attacks.
Yes, the AP does lie. Somehow every living human bought the lie that there were no chemical weapons in Iraq. Polish U.N. troops found some. Sadam had 8 years of Clinton administration to hide them though.
Saying there were no WMD's in Iraq does not make it true. The evidence is out there everywhere on the internet.
I am reading some of the post and wonder... Where are these nuts conspiracy morons are coming from? Is it because they hate Jews so much? Or is it because they are just THAT stupid? They must be either or to write the nonsense they do. People, wake up. You can spew your poison as much as you'd like, but without facts it is what it is - a psychobabble of deranged. Sure, blame it on Jews. Iran is just an innocent victim of Jewish conspiracy. And those hundreds of hostages in American Embassy in Tehran were taken by Jews too. Who else? Those peaceful Iranians would never do such a thing. And blowing up Jewish Center in Buenos Aires where hundreds had perished? Sure, Jews did it to incriminate Iranians. Ayatollahs? They always wanted peace. Violence? God no. Hanging gays, stoning women to death, getting rid of political opposition? Well, Jews did it. Keep believing in your deranged phantasies. But realize that you can't be taken seriously.
Zionist
warmongers like Ken Adelman and the Zionist Washington Post pushed the war in
an editorial titled, “Cakewalk in Iraq.” Jewish supremacists Richard Perle and
Paul Wolfowitz told you that Iraq would “Welcome us as liberators.” Iraq became
the longest war in American history. Here is a report from USA Today: “Pentagon
officials estimated for the first time Wednesday that up to 360,000 Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans may have suffered traumatic brain injuries.” Now that’s
not counting tens of thousands who have suffered maiming, amputations, or death
in this war based on lies.
Gregory - Are those people being quoted by USA Today and mentioned in the Washington Post Zionists? Were they not part of the media frenzy designed to get the US into a war with Iraq? Was the "cakewalk" scenario part of the sales pitch to our politicians and the populace to get us into a war? It is Paul Wolfowitz who is considered the architect of the Iraq war, is it not?
There is no proof Iran had anything to do with a bombing in Buenos Aires. That is just an accusation made some Jewish officials, long after the event and a botched investigation of another group which had been deemed responsible. In summary: The proof is a couple of South American Jews named Iran as the culprit and the media ran with it, just as they ran with WMD. Look it up in Wikipedia. Here are some great videos on 9/11. There is far more proof it was an inside job with Mossad involvment than the ridiculous findings of the 9/11 Commision, led by the Jew, Zelacow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3dW_gUwOg
Molten Heat -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaFGSPErKU&feature=related
British Newman -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgABDdU7yD8&feature=related
Jim Marrs -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TLwK4_0g4&feature=related
2012--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazdG3-ZETM&feature=related
Yeh right.! That´s why Interpol has an arrest and detain order for the current minister of Iran for his role in the 2 bombings in Buenas Aires ,He had to be hustled out of Bolivia before he was arrested.Argentina is no great friend of either the U.S or Israel.yet every year the president makes a speech at the General Assembly demanding that Iran turn over the Iranians who have been charged in Argentina.They know the culprits were Iranians and hezbollah and most of the world knows as well!.Iranians have been charged and even detained in many countries in the world for their involvement in terrorism.And the countries that detain them are hardly in the pro Israel or U.S camp.You continue writing lies and ridiculous stories Ralph..
Gregory,
You were asking if it's because they hate jews or because they are just stupid. In Ralph's case it's clearly both.
His 9/11 conspircay theories are long dead, yet he insists on not noticing:
Yes, Eli, and Ralph H has also informed us that the Jews killed Jesus. Talk about your basic Jew baiting.
Another "Jewmedia" propaganda report. This one is just about as credible as the Bin Laden listening device found in Rumsfeld's sock drawer spinner. The little "Piglets" never give up trying to cause trouble for everyone else in the world.
"Jewmedia"? Give me a break.! The overwhelming media is controlled by WASPS and Christians in general.And you know it! Yes you know it! So you are lying!.And you know that too!
Christian Evans are Zionists, they will vote for Romney [a man w/no military or diplomatic creds] who has promised them a war with Iran. Im sorry but right now we are in no shape or pos to do so. The media is owned by zionists. Jew, Christian, all the same to me. Everyone who's not going cries out for war.
got caught! and told! Akmed back in Iran must be downing the asprin. too bad he can't have a drink!
They are upset because we didn't invite them to a barbecue this year.
Big deal! The US and Israel have already been attacking Iran...through cyber attacks and the assassination of Iranian scientists. What's more, the US invaded two countries on Iran's borders ten years ago and has been occupying them and killing civilians there ever since. How could anyone be surprised that Iran might plan some sort of retaliation? Who could blame them?
From BBC today - excerpt:
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Adan Wachu, head of the Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims, told the BBC the attacks were acts of terrorism.
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Adan Wachu Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims
"There are people out there who are determined to make Kenya another Nigeria," Mr Wachu, who also chairs the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya, told the BBC Network Africa programme.
"It's not going to be allowed to have a sectarian division in this country - whoever wants to do that will of course fail."
'United front'
Mr Wachu said that at a meeting the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya on Tuesday it was unanimously agreed the church attacks were acts of "terrorists and terrorism".
"Therefore we all resolved to stand together as one united front," he said.
"We decided as solidarity that the Muslim youth will provide a vigilante service to the churches not only in Garissa but in any other places that the Christians may deem fit."
He said that it was now up to the Muslim leaders in Garissa to organise out how the estimated 30 churches in the town would be protected.
"Muslims felt that because those Christians are a minority in their domain they must be protected at all cost."
Most of the people living in and around Garissa are ethnic Somalis and Muslims.
Last October, Kenyan troops entered Somalia in pursuit of al-Shabab militants accused of being behind various kidnappings on Kenyan soil and of destabilising the border region."
Thats true islam at work here. Lets see how long it lasts.
I don't believe a word of this story. It's another plant story meant to fuel the fire of hate against Iran. Just watch as stories like this keep popping up as the West looks for the right moment to launch an attack. You'll know when it's about to happen after some Western agents detonate a bomb in a public location killing civilians. They will then amazingly come up with evidence which points directly at Iran. When this event happens you know the invasion is imminent.
Ahmed, please meet Mr. Waterboard! What's that Mr. Ahmed, I can't understand a word your screaming after I flip the switch to the cables hooked up to your balls! Wait a minute, perhaps if we throw some water on it you won't feel so bad. How is that now, oh damn, I think Mr. Ahmed is sunnyside up; send in the next one! Shiek ab dula meet Mr. Waterboard! What's that Mr Sheik ab dula, I can't understand..............................
Kenya recently has some bombings attacked the churches; are these bombings coincident? Or the bombings are really attacking the Christian churches.
Please follow-up.
go ahead but it will be like pissing gasoline of fire, they will get burn. the only thing that is keeping Israel from kicking there ass now is the USA. Israel would love to test some of there new hardware we gave they on the dogs next door. the wind off that cloud would blow that towell of there heads for sure
in the middle east do you wonder why Mohammad had to go to heaven using the same Rock as Jesus did. looks like both of These big boys would have known that would cause a fight. it would have been so easy for one of them to go down the road a few hundreds miles to catch the ride up
Ol Mo never laid eyes on Jerusalem. Its a lie.
Iran's hate Americans because we don't wear our bath towels on our head. and we like pig.
Irans day is coming very soon.
I see it as two soldiers not under orders or maybe they just trying to play terrorist that hate some people, trying to stir stuff up. I dont think Iran had anything to do with it. Also to the people that say Iran isnt a threat i would say wake up some of those people are pretty unstable, and they may not be able to stand toe to toe with the US but they will play dirty.