See, here's the thing
True or not, due to the way this war is being handled, a significant part of the world will find these allegations impossible to dismiss offhandedly. And in the Middle East, the part of the world whose opinions have the greatest impact on the outcome of this mess, will find it a most eminently speculation.
Iran Leader Says U.S., Israel Behind Iraq Kidnaps
Tue Jul 13, 2004 03:20 AM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader said on Tuesday he believed the United States and Israel, rather than Muslims, were behind the kidnapping and killing of foreign nationals in Iraq.
"We seriously suspect the agents Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist moves," the official IRNA news agency quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying in a meeting with visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
"(We) cannot believe that the people who kidnap Philippine nationals, for instance, or beheaded U.S. nationals are Muslims."
