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Re: Walk Softly and...You Know the Rest -- Beachboy
Posted by savyvvvhat , Thu, Aug 02, 2012, 15:10:56 Top of ThreadReviews by savyvvvhatArchiveMain BigDoggie.net site
Was it just coincidental timing that the hostages were released 5 minutes after Reagan's inauguration?

"A top aide to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has dropped a new clue about the original 'October Surprise' mystery of 1980: the name of the Republican operative who sought the Palestine Liberation Organization’s help to block President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations to free 52 Americans then being held hostage in Iran. Longtime Arafat confidant Bassam Abu Sharif said that in mid-1980, he met in Paris with John Shaheen, a friend to both Ronald Reagan and Reagan’s campaign chief, William J. Casey. Abu Sharif told me that Shaheen, a former U.S. intelligence officer of Lebanese origin, extended a Republican offer of improved U.S. relations with the PLO if the Arafat-led organization would assist in persuading the Iranians to delay the hostage release until after the November 1980 elections."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110204.html


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