.... From the NOW WHAT DO WE DO? Dept:
Ex-Hostages: Iran's President Was Captor
(reference the Bad Guy on left .... versus Bad Guy on right ..... )
Thursday, June 30, 2005
WASHINGTON — Already saddled with resolving a looming nuclear showdown with Iran, the Bush administration now faces the possibility that that country's new leader helped take 52 Americans hostage in 1979.
"I think the news reports and statements from several former American hostages raise many questions about his past," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said of Iran's President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We take them very seriously and we are looking into them to better understand the facts."
Five Americans who were held for more than a year in the hostage crisis believe that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors.
"You don't forget, even years later," Chuck Scott told FOX News on Thursday. "Even if he dyed his hair blond and shaved his beard, I'd still recognize him." (emphasis mine)
Scott and fellow former hostages David Roeder, William J. Daugherty, Don A. Sharer and Kevin Hermening agreed that Ahmadinejad, 49, was one of the hostage-takers, The Associated Press first reported Wednesday.
..... for the entire story, click the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161163,00.html
Ex-Hostages: Iran's President Was Captor
(reference the Bad Guy on left .... versus Bad Guy on right ..... )
Thursday, June 30, 2005
WASHINGTON — Already saddled with resolving a looming nuclear showdown with Iran, the Bush administration now faces the possibility that that country's new leader helped take 52 Americans hostage in 1979.
"I think the news reports and statements from several former American hostages raise many questions about his past," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said of Iran's President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We take them very seriously and we are looking into them to better understand the facts."
Five Americans who were held for more than a year in the hostage crisis believe that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors.
"You don't forget, even years later," Chuck Scott told FOX News on Thursday. "Even if he dyed his hair blond and shaved his beard, I'd still recognize him." (emphasis mine)
Scott and fellow former hostages David Roeder, William J. Daugherty, Don A. Sharer and Kevin Hermening agreed that Ahmadinejad, 49, was one of the hostage-takers, The Associated Press first reported Wednesday.
..... for the entire story, click the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161163,00.html
... just in case.