IRAN TERROR BIN LADEN IRAN AL-QAEDA

You'll have to look long and hard to find any media mention of Sulaiman Abu Graith before he showed up on the front page of every American newspaper a week ago.

Since then he's morphed into a Senior Bin Laden Adviser, Terror Mastermind, Al Qaeda Mastermind... but mostly, he's become the most useful device ever for putting Al-Qaeda and Iran in the same story.

After all, it's nice to have some terrorists to pin on the Iranian terrorism sponsors, and evidence for that is notably lacking.

That's useful because the Bomb Iran crowd needs to keep alive the fiction that Al-Qaeda is a creation of the Iranian terror apparatus. It helps if you can produce headlines that make that link, even if the content of the story fails to substantiate it.

Hence, in the past week, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and innumerable others have all provided their eager readers with fanciful speculation about the links between the Saudi-sponsored Al Qaeda, and Saudi Arabia's number one enemy, Iran.

Here's a Reuters story from a year ago that describes the Al Qaeda-Iran relationship as "fractious at best and antagonistic at worst." They even have a reference to Abu Graith in the third and forth paragraphs from the bottom. He was such a non-entity he wasn't even mentioned by name, simply referred to as "the husband of one of Bin Laden's daughters."

He is a non-entity no more. He has since become a useful pawn in the anti-Iran propaganda campaign. He gives the media big boys an excuse to print headlines that imply linkages that don't exist.

You can be sure we'll be seeing lots of those in the months to come.

The Towellers have allies? Who knew?

Check out this scoop from the Jerusalem Post.

All along I've been led to believe that the Iranians were the scourge of the world stage, that the Nations of Virtue stood arrayed in solidarity against them, and that their only allies were Hamas and Hezbollah and Syria.

Now I find out they're hosting the Non-aligned summit, and it looks to me like they've got more allies than America!

After years of stirring the sanctions pot it seems our efforts have been in vain. At least 100 countries have sent official delegations to Tehran, including 27 who sent their presidents, quite of few of whom I must confess I thought were our allies.

Somebody's been lying!

Hezbollah terror attack imminent in Europe

That's according to Daniel Benjamin, counter-terrorism cooridinator at the US State Department.

Coincidentaly, Mr. Benjamin's warning comes a mere two weeks after the EU declined an invitation from Israel to identify Hezbollah as an official terror group.

Benjamin has done the assessments and is deeply concerned that Hezbollah are stepping up their terror activities around the world. This is an interesting assessment indeed, because there is no documented evidence of any Hezbollah terror anywhere in the world except in Lebanon.

What there is an abundance of is unsubstantiated allegations and baseless innuendo. For example, Israeli PM Netanyahu had "concrete evidence" within minutes that the Bulgaria bus bombing was a Hezbollah attack, and of course we must never forget who is behind Hezbollah.

Iran!

A point that Mr. Benjamin made over and over in his remarks today.

One need only make a brief perusal of the State Department's history of threat assessments to conclude that they are based on nothing more than fear-mongering and wishful thinking. Back in the build-up to the Iraq war we got ever-scarier threat assessments virtually on a daily basis.

In hindsight, what were they? Fear-mongering and wishful thinking. Propaganda.

So this latest warning should be considered nothing more than another salvo in the propaganda war that the Nations of Virtue are waging on Iran.

Shooting war to follow.