Iran to deal al Qaeda captives?

NBC says the US and Iran are negotiating the turn over of al Qaeda opertives captured in Iran.

"...THE THREE OPERATIVES are among the most wanted members of al-Qaida:
Abu Mussab al Zarqawi, an alleged poison expert who got medical treatment in Iraq.
Sa’ad Bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s third-oldest son who is believed to be planning new al-Qaida operations.
Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the al-Qaida spokesman famous for introducing bin Laden in a widely seen videotape after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States."

The trade would be for some Iranians who had been waging war against from Iraq called the Mujahadeen al-Khalq, or MEK.

"Hawkish Republicans say under no circumstances should the United States negotiate with Iran while it’s pursuing nuclear weapons. “We shouldn’t do anything that makes it look as if we’re recognizing, legitimizing, and favoring the regime in Iran,” says foreign policy expert Michael Ledine of the American Enterprise Institute."

The problem with dealing with Iran is that the government lacks legitamacy and the Iran Contra mess would be dredged up again, where the Reagan admainsitration attempted to deal with so called moderates in Iran. There are no moderates with any power in Iran. Any deal should take that as a given. All in all I would rather have the al Qaeda fugitives than the Iranian/Iraqi operatives so the deal may be worth doing.

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