Posted by
Brian Peters on Friday, May 15, 2009 4:01:24 PM
Somewhere in my blog, I was going through and trying to find it, that when Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen was taken prisoner by the Government of Iran, was that she was going to be used as a pawn against the USA. Here's what the Main Stream Media reported to you dear reader:
TEHRAN, Iran – "An American journalist imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran for four months was freed Monday and reunited with her smiling, tearful parents — a move that clears a major obstacle to President Barack Obama's attempts at dialogue with the top U.S. adversary in the Middle East."
"Her release came when an appeals court reduced her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. to a two-year suspended sentence, said Iranian judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi. He said Saberi was free to leave Iran. The court ordered the reduction as a gesture of "Islamic mercy" because she had cooperated with authorities and had expressed regret, he said."
There's more at the link of that story dear reader, but the R.D. version is that she was released as a gesture of Islamic mercy.....now here's the real reason she was released.
Iranian sources: Obama to free four Iranian "diplomats" in swap for US journalist
13 May: Those sources reveal that US journalist Roxana Saberi was released Tuesday, May 12, as part of an exchange deal for Washington to free four senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers captured in Irbil, northern Iraq in January 2007. Defined as "diplomats" by Tehran, they ran terror operations and covert arms supplies from Iran then to al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent networks.
The Obama administration is also considering releasing to Tehran information on the fate of the Iranian diplomat who disappeared in Pakistan four months ago. The four Iranian agents have not yet been freed, but senior Iranian and Iraqi sources say it will happen soon. The date depends on Tehran satisfying Washington's demand for information on the former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has never been heard of from the time he disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007.
Now you know...the rest of the story.
This was posting 897. I have 3 more to 900. At 900 I'm going to take a break and I"ll explain why. Just giving you a heads up dear reader. 898 is planned to be a very long entry on my thoughts about what's near n' dear to me, the U.S. Military. 899 will probably be a B.E.V. wrap up view on the news.
Sidebar: SOH Pelosi and the CIA. As Chris Wallace so accurately pointed out this morning on Fox & Friends this morning. SOH Pelosi is third in succession line to the U.S. Presidency. She has accused the Central Intelligence Agency of lying. The CIA is saying, Pelosi is mistaken in her recollection of events. The main point, someone is not telling the truth, and for the good of the Nation , the truth needs to be told. This Nation can not survive if the very people and Agencies that are charged with it's safety and security are bickering back and forth, and are not concentrating on their "job descriptions". This is when a 'President' be's a President and does what is best for the People and the Nation and directs this problem to the Justice Department.