brief - Iran 911 Case

INTERPOL, Edgar A. Adamson attests, in a 33-paragraph affidavit (Ex. 10), to hisknowledge of Iran‘s unprecedented campaign to prevent INTERPOL Red Notices (see pp.61-62, infra) from being issued naming three high-ranking Iranian government officials,which would have implicated Iran as a nation-state in the terrorist bombings of the AMIAJewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1994.i. Kenneth R. Timmerman. Investigative journalist, author, and noted Iranexpert Kenneth Timmerman provides an expert affidavit (his ―Second Affidavit‖) inaddition to a fact affidavit (―First Affidavit‖ which is sealed) described infra. See n.11, p.13, infra. Timmerman‘s second affidavit (Ex. 2, redacted; Ex. S-11, unredacted),comprising 219 paragraphs, lays out his expert analysis of the early connections betweenAyatollah Khomeini and Yasser Arafat, Iran‘s creation of Hizballah in Lebanon, theemergence of Imad Mughniyah and his long terrorist history, connections between Iran,Hizballah, al Qaeda, and the Taliban, Iran as a travel facilitator for terrorists, and otherdetails from the Havlish investigation. Timmerman reveals information he received froma 9/11 Commission staff member identifying by name the ―senior operative ofHezbollah‖ who, as well as the operative‘s associate, accompanied some of the 9/11muscle hijackers on air flights into and out of Iran and Beirut, Lebanon in the fall of2000. That ―senior Hezbollah operative,‖ referenced cryptically, though not identified byname, in pages 240-241 of the 9/11 REPORT, was the master terrorist Imad Mughniyah –a known agent of Iran. Mughniyah, too, was the ―senior operative of Hezbollah‖ who, inOctober 2000, ―visited Saudi Arabia to coordinate activities there . . . [and who] alsoplanned to assist individuals in Saudi Arabia in traveling to Iran during November.‖Timmerman also relates information he received from two additional Iranian sources30