Ahmadinejad Says U.S. Planned to Kidnap, Murder Him in Iraq

[karlos]

Ahmadinejad Says U.S. Planned to Kidnap, Murder Him

By Camilla Hall
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aRPXUfHAoapw&refer =us
June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused U.S. forces in Iraq of planning to kidnap and assassinate him when he visited the country in March, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said.

Ahmadinejad, 51, refused to reside in Baghdad's Green Zone, protected by U.S. forces, the news agency cited the president as saying during a seminar today. According to reliable information, they intended to detain and kill him, IRNA cited Ahmadinejad as saying.

The U.S. has repeatedly accused predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran of passing weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, a charge denied by the government in Tehran. The U.S. has also accused Iran of seeking to build an atomic bomb under cover of a nuclear energy program, an allegation also dismissed by Ahmadinejad's administration.

"Based on reliable intelligence, the enemies had planned to kidnap and kill the servant'' of the Iranian nation during the Iraq trip, Agence France-Presse cited Ahmadinejad as saying on state television today. "But with the change of one or two of our plans, their willpower was shaken.''

To contact the reporter on this story: Camilla Hall in London at chall24@bloomberg.net.

So it sounds like it was a good decision not to stay in the 'green' zone.

[fish5133]

Given the contents of the Northwoods document you can bet your last dollar that Ahmadinejads elimination was a consideration by the relevant powers. If he was such a threat as the US make him out to be I am rather surprised they didnt make it happen. Perhaps he is just another pawn in the Neocon agenda. Time not right to destabilise Iran. Like Bin Laden his time will come.