Told You So
On March 25, in my story “Leverage”, I gave you all something that no other news agency on the planet gave you: the name of the specific individual that Iran had most likely kidnapped the hostages for. In fact, I told you that I had almost reported the guy’s story two whole months earlier on Fox News, but ran out of time in the segment. I told you the incredible tale of this terrorist/diplomat’s mysterious broad-daylight kidnapping by 30 armed men. I let you know that the Iraqi and American governments were still denying his capture. I let you know that he was perhaps the top Iranian terror-master in Iraq, and that he was likely spilling the beans on the entire structure of Iran’s war machine in Iraq…down to names, addresses, and phone numbers. He was a lynchpin in our new gameplan for victory. I even gave you something that few people in the world knew. His real name.
Lo, and behold, it was reported in the press yesterday that suddenly the U.S. and Iraq had not only reversed course and acknowledged his detainment, but were immediately and mysteriously returning him to Iran. Today, the hostages were released.
On stories linked by the Drudge Report and elsewhere, he was identified as Jalal Sharafi. I identified him in my story by that name as well. I also let you know that that was his nom de guerre, his real name being Mohammed Javad Sharaf-Zadeh.
I also let you know that his links to terror were revealed in documents found during a succesful raid on an Iranian facility in Irbil. Yesterday, the Drudge Report linked a story in the British paper The Indpendent with the headline, “Botched U.S. Raid Leads To Iran Hostage Crisis”. The Drudge Report did a good job with both headline and story. Unfortunately, the Independent did not, because both the story and headline were untrue. They claimed the raid was a failure, and that two other men, who went uncaptured, were the only meaningful targets. As I flatly stated in my story, the raid was succesful and Mr. Sharafi, who became a prime target, was indeed captured. Although, the Iraqis and U.S. were still denying his detainment.
Yesterday, I was borne out. And a week ago, my prediction of one of the main motives for the hostage crisis, down to the specific man that the Iranians wanted back, was entirely correct.
Yet nowhere else in the mainstream media or blogosphere were you given much of a clue as to all of this.
If you want the facts, just keep coming back.
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