4 Tweets 4 reads Mar 24, 2021
In 1996 Paul Bremer (who would go on to lead the CPA) gave a talk on terrorism in the Middle East. He singled out just 2 countries for terrorist links, #Iran and #Syria.
Yet 7 years later #Iraq was invaded in part on the (baseless) premise of Iraq's links to terrorist groups...
The same regimes continue to rule (and #oppress) and still have links to #terrorist groups. It is interesting to see how little terrorism impacts regime change despite being used to justify it...
#failedstate
Some noticeable attendees; Joe #Biden, John #Kerry and President at the time Bill #Clinton...
From 1996 it is clear to see the #US were completely aware of #Iran's links to #terrorist attacks on Westerners, and also Iran using proxies to 'minimise its direct role in terrorism', yet the same MO has been used across the region esp. in #Iraq since 2003 US #invasion...

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