From CQ Politics/Spytalk:Iran supplied U.S. diplomats with the location of Taliban military units in Afghanistan after the initial bombing campaign in the fall of 2001 failed to rout them, according to former officials in the George W. Bush administration.
The Islamic regime also gave the Bush administration "really substantive cooperation" on al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, at one point providing Washington with a list of 220 suspects and their whereabouts, said one official, former White House National Security Council Iran expert Hillary Mann Leverett.
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My Comment: A fascinating story .... if true. I am personally skeptical. Iran has never looked at the U.S. in any favorable light, the idea that they would decide to give assistance all of a sudden because of 9/11 is dubious when one looks at the history of the relationship.
But if Iran did give help, it was for the purpose of wiping out Al Qaeda and the extremist Sunni sect of Islam that it represents (Iran is primarily Shiite).
But did they really help us? Hmmmmm .... I guess we will learn the truth when much of this information is declassified decades from now.
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