oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) (01/26/86)
(All indented items are from Farzin Mokhtarian) > I don't know whether it is Israel's intention that those > arms be given to the terrorists or not but Israel *knows* > that some of them will be given to the terrorists. ------------------------------ Grant, for an instant, that Iran receives some supplies from Israel. Are they lethal? Offensive? Defensive? Usable by terrorists? Hand-held? Mobile? Useful for attacking civilian targets? Let's get specific, please. > All countries (such as Libya, Syria, Iran) which run > "terrorist camps" on their soil are just teaching certain > military skills to the people in those camps. Similar camps > exist in the U. S. But people who run them don't determine > what their graduates do with their skills. Only when they > use their skills to kill civilians, do they become > terrorists. ------------------------------ Agha-ye-Mokhtarian, once again the argument would be clearer if you gave out specifics. Military camps which teach control and training of military forces designed to fight similar forces in the open field are different from those teaching methodologies for small-force attack against soft civilian targets, no? (At this point in the discussion, I withdraw permission to "grant that Israeli supplies have been reaching Iran.") ------------------------------ WRT your claim that Kayhan on 02.01.86 made the claim that Israel supplied Iran with "weapons," and the resultant claims that Israel arms terrorists against herself: Who publishes Kayhan, and what is its alignment on various issues? To what extent is its political orientation allowed to influence its content? Is there an English edition? Does it get mailed here, so people near me would have some? If I mention a particular affair (for example, the fate of Baha'is in Iran) can you describe its coverage of it, so we can compare it with other sources? Was the Jan. 2, 1986 article the only one making that claim? What did IT say were its sources? Do you know of anyone (outside the Iraqi press, I guess) who will second that assertion? More importantly, WHY DID YOU TEASE US SO LONG if you had the reference available? "Measuring" your correspondents again? All of us? -- Oded Feingold MIT AI Lab. 545 Tech Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 OAF%OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA {harvard, ihnp4!mit-eddie}!mit-vax!oaf 617-253-8598