The White House blasted Iran in its "National Strategy for Combating
Terrorism" released on Tuesday for allegedly sponsoring terrorism.

"Iran remains the most active state sponsor of international terrorism,"
the 23-page report said.

"Through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of
Intelligence and Security, the regime in Teheran plans terrorist
operations and supports groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas, and
Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)," the report said.

"Iran also remains unwilling to account for and bring to justice senior
Al-Qaida members it detained in 2003," it added.

Iran has been on the U.S. list of "state sponsors of terrorism" and the
United States has been trying to impose sanctions on Iran for its
defiance on its nuclear issue

from
http://www.crosswalk.com/books/1464872/

In 1785 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams encountered the jihad terrorist
ideology when they were sent to negotiate a treaty with a representative
of Tripoli, in modern day Libya, Oren says in his book.

American merchant ships in the Mediterranean at the time were under
constant threat of attack from Arabic-speaking pirates from Morocco,
Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers, who captured the merchants' goods and
enslaved the crews.

Jefferson and Adams met with the Tripoli representative Abd al-Rahman
al-Ajar and told him that America was "eager to avert bloodshed" and was
therefore willing "to offer a treaty of lasting friendship with
Tripoli."
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the states have been victem of mideast terrorism as long as
has been a country

just thought this was interesting

but i am sure it is the united states fault some how

And they we sent the Marines over there to kick some serious ass and
clean out the rat's nest. The Marine Hymn starts out "From the Halls of
Montazuma to the shores of Tripoli"

Was watching President Bush on television and he said something that I
thought was a contradiction. He said, "If Congress could just get past
the the politics and support our troups." I thought wow what a
contradiction in terms.