Iran wants US to apologise for helping Osama in the past
Agence France-Presse
Tehran, June 2

Iran on Monday hit back at US allegations that it has failed to crack down =
on fugitive Al-Qaeda members, calling on Washington to apologise to the wor=
ld for its own past support of the network.
"The Americans should present a full apology to the international community=
for the support they gave to Al-Qaeda," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid R=
eza Asefi told reporters.

The official was referring to a period in the 1980s when millions of dollar=
s of covert US aid was channelled – through the Pakistani secret service -=
- to Islamist groups battling the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

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