Iran called `central banker of terror'

[phoenix80]

U.S. Treasury official says Tehran has terrorism as a line item in its budget

WASHINGTON - Terrorism has become a major industry around the world and its central banker is Iran, according to a top U.S. official.

Iran has been bankrolling Hezbollah, Hamas and other groups, giving them an important source of financial firepower to carry out terrorist activities, the official said.

"Iran is like the elephant in the room, if you will. ... They are the central banker of terror. It is a country that has terrorism as a line item in its budget," Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14560064/

 

[Chief Bones]

Golllleeeeeee!

Duhhhhhh - I wonder where Mr Levey has been for the last ten years or so ... he must have been communing with space aliens, he sure wasn't visiting Planet Earth.

This charge has gone the talk show rounds so many times, it has a permanent number tag that is used by every producer to identify the topic with the hosts. I don't know if there is another person on Planet Earth where this would be 'new' news - maybe a Bushman from Australia's outback would consider it news ... but ... then again maybe he wouldn't.

The Elephant in the room was wearing tights, and the people that were also in the room ignored the Elephant as being part of 'yesterday's' news. The ONLY real 'new' news, is the fact that Mr Levey has just demonstrated that he finally 'gets' it.