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July 15 (LPAC)--The Iranian news service IRNA reported today on an editorial in the daily Persian-language publication, Iran, by IRNA's Managing Director, saying that the U.S. is not really serious about arresting Osama Bin Laden, and will only announce his capture when his "time is up.'' According to IRNA, the editorial says that the 9/11/01 terrorist attack was made under suspicious circumstances, for which Bin Laden was held responsible, but "political observers were aware of the fact that Bin Laden had connections with the U.S. where he had undergone training by the Central Intelligence Agency.''

"The CIA,'' IRNA quotes the editorial, "had helped Ben Laden [sic] organize Taliban in Afghanistan and it was clear that Ben Laden's possible involvement in twin towers terrorist attack could not be successful in the absence of coordination with the neo-conservative war mongers in the White House.'' The editorial reviews the events following the 9/11 attack, which allowed the U.S. to advance its "hegemony'': a crusade against Islam, a propaganda campaign against Muslims, and the invasion of Afghanistan putting the U.S. on the forefront of a clash of civilizations. The editorial also pointedly notes the use made by U.S. media of broadcasts of Bin Laden's videotapes, including one used to divert U.S. public opinion on the eve of the presidential election, ensuring a second term for President Bush.

The editorial, as presented in the IRNA report, got the story at least part right--leaving out the puppet-master role of the British Empire, and its master intelligence agent, Dr. Bernard Lewis, who was deployed to the U.S. in 1973, after a lifelong role as a British intelligence agent, to implement the "clash of civilizations."