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Terrorism Summit

Didn’t Dr. Evil do this?

Ahmadinejad is gathering terrorist leaders who were snubbed by the United States at Annapolis … not that they’d want to be caught dead shaking hands with filthy Zionists … for a big counter-peace summit in Tehran. AFP:  

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran said on Tuesday that it had invited Palestinian militant factions to a meeting in Tehran aimed at countering a US-hosted Middle East peace conference seeking to kickstart the peace process.

“These groups are planning to come to Tehran within the next week or two and they are all the Palestinian groups that are struggling for the freedom of their land,” government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.

Iran is one of the most vocal backers of Palestinian militant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad and pledged millions of dollars in 2006 to the then Hamas government crippled by a Western aid cut.

The Islamic republic does not recognise Israel and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has provoked outrage by calling for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.

Elham indicated the Tehran meeting would be a riposte to the conference bringing together Israeli and Palestinian leaders which started in Annapolis outside Washington on Tuesday.

“It means that the Annapolis conference is not representing the Palestinians and not talking on their behalf, but on the contrary is moving against their rights,” he said.

More than a dozen Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran’s top regional ally Syria, have sent representatives, leaving Tehran conspicuously isolated.

Osama’s going to be bummed if he can’t go. So many terrorist masterminds, all together! So much evil! Hey, I can think of one way, with A’jad, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, maybe the top Hezbos all in one place, to advance the cause of peace at that meeting. But I’m guessing cruise missiles will not be on the agenda.

Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad is ticked off at Syria like Dr. Evil got annoyed with Number Two for going soft. AP:

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria on Tuesday defended its decision to attend the Mideast peace conference and said it was choosing the path to peace after its close ally Iran expressed surprise at the decision.

In Iran, several officials and media condemned the U.S.-hosted conference and urged Arab countries not to compromise with the Israelis.

Syrian state-run media said the country hoped the conference could bring real peace to the region.

Syria is attending the Annapolis, Md., conference “because peace is its choice and because it has made strides in previous negotiations to achieve it,” the daily Tishrin said in an editorial.

“Though we are hopeful that the region would move toward a real peace, yet this doesn’t mean that the conference would achieve this goal,” the editorial said.

It added that “Syria, which has a full desire to make peace, is ready to go to the ends of the earth to achieve this objective.”

Well, kumbayah.  That and the Golan.

Iran’s criticism and Syria’s statement seemed to indicate at least some tension between the two allies over the issue, although it was unclear how serious it was.

Hossein Shariatmadari, an adviser to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told a pan-Arab daily based in London, Asharq Al-Awsat, that Iran was surprised by Syria’s decision to take part in the conference, which is trying to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

“We were surprised by the Syrian position, and we said that we do not support the conference. We expressed our opinion clearly and openly,” Shariatmadari told the paper, adding that the conference was a “a plot against the Palestinians.”

Topics: Iran, Palestinians, Syria

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:34 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2007

10 Responses to “Terrorism Summit”

1. Dave Surls Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

   “These groups are planning to come to Tehran within the next week or two and they are all the Palestinian groups that are struggling for the freedom of their land,”

   Wake-up call to the Muslim oppressor from 21st Century Crusaders:

   It’s not their land it’s ours. And, so is Turkey, Egypt, the rest of North Africa, Syria, the Balkans, and a few other places still held by the Muslim imperialist, colonialist, invaders.

   Enjoy your stay while it lasts, because it ain’t gonna last forever. The West will reclaim ALL the lands stolen by the Muslim aggressor sooner or later.

   Yesterday Spain, today Israel, tomorrow it’ll be Damascus, or Constantinople, or Cairo or whatever.

   The best thing you infidels can hope for is is that we don’t charge you back rent for the centuries you’ve been occupying our lands without our permission.

2. Vanguard of the Commentariat Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

   “Syria, which has a full desire to make peace, is ready to go to the ends of the earth to achieve this objective.”

   Would that we were ready to send them there!

3. Vanguard of the Commentariat Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

   “These groups are planning to come to Tehran within the next week or two…”

   Sounds like a targeteer’s delight!

4. RebeccaH Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

   We expressed our opinion clearly and openly,” Shariatmadari told the paper, adding that the conference was a “a plot against the Palestinians.”

   Who needs to plot against the Palestinians, when they do such a bang up job of it themselves?

5. theospark Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 4:06 am

   Oh airstrike time!!

6. GW Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 4:15 am

   I hear that, unlike Annapolis, the groups represented at Iran’s summit expect to be able to reach unanimous agreement on a final solution.

7. El Cid Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 6:19 am

   Theo Spark

   Wonderful thought, on the airstrike. We probably have the coordinates of where this cabal meets, dialed in. Just won’t happen. Damn shame.

8. tanstaafl Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 11:05 am

   More than a dozen Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran’s top regional ally Syria, have sent representatives, leaving Tehran conspicuously isolated.

   I think the biggest shifts in dynamics “Annapolis” might have going for it (as opposed to the plethora of former ME conferences) is the recognition that any nuclear antics A’jad indulges in will necessarily have huge repercussions beyond the target, the tiny state of Israel.

   Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt et al. and etc. could not exactly desire to have one of these things detonated in their midst.

9. The Thunder Run Says:
   November 28th, 2007 at 11:10 am

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10. mojo Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Be a shame if the hall exploded mysteriously, huh?

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