Scott Horton

And he bragged about it himself to Abdel Bari Atwan, the reporter from Al-Quds Al-Arabi in London, and spent days with him and bragged all about it and blessed the martyrs and the rest of that.

And is widely discredited the claim that it was Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah that did the Khobar Towers attack.

That was what the Saudi government told the U.S.

In fact, there's a great documentary about John O'Neill, who was the head of FBI counterterrorism, who told Louis Freeh.

boss, the Saudis are blowing smoke up your ass about this Hezbollah thing.

It was Al-Qaeda that did it.

And then Louis Freeh got all upset because he used the A word.

He's a very conservative Catholic guy, Louis Freeh, and then refused to listen to another word from John O'Neill about it.

I cited Michael Schor, the chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit.

So make it clear here.

The Iranian is trusting Hezbollah.

Did you get that?

How come you're not saying him?

Isn't that weird that you just said he trusts Hezbollah, even though he didn't say anything about trusting Hezbollah?

Yeah.

Okay.

So a few things there.

First of all, on Ahmad, the pre-2003 nuclear weapons research, the CIA estimate in 2007 concluded that all research had stopped in 2003.

And Seymour Hersh reported that the reasoning behind that was mainly that America had gotten rid of Saddam Hussein for them.

Now, in Gareth Porter's book, Manufactured Crisis, he shows that the major conclusion that the DIA had made, that the Iranians were researching nuclear weapons, was based on some invoices that they had intercepted for some dual-use materials, some specialty magnets and things that they thought, boy, this looks like this could be part of a weaponization program, a secret program here.