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BREAKING NEWS - Top Islamic Iran Strategist Captured in Iraq Raid
AntiMullah ^ | Friday Jan 12 | Alan Peters

Posted on 01/12/2007 12:55:17 AM PST by FARS

Friday, January 12, 2007 BREAKING NEWS - !!!

Reports from Tehran state that Iran's top IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) strategist, Hassan Abbasi, was captured in the recent raid on the Islamic Iran's office in Erbil, Iraq.

Referred to inside Islamic Iran as the Regime's version of Kissinger, Abbasi works directly as special advisor for the dead or dying Supreme Ruler in Iran - Ali Khamenei.

His attitude to the main competitor for the Supreme Leadership position, Hashemi Rafsanjani, as the telephone report elaborated, is "like a knife and cheese", meaning he hates Rafsanjani.

Abbasi has in the past indicated he has already chosen and set up attack capability on a large number of targets inside the USA and said the Islamic regime would wipe out the Western culture - as a whole - and replace it with Islam.

He also runs the "Freedom Organizations" an umbrella group, coordinating and networking every "anti-imperialism" terror group around the globe. Be it the IRA in Ireland or Japanese cults or Puerto Rican gangs in the USA. Anyone who is ready to disrupt their country and governments through acts of terrorism.

As the Islamic Regime's top tactician and strategist, his being found and caught in Iraq comes as little or no surprise when reorganization of the jihadists in Iraq has to be done to meet President Bush's new initiative.

In the past Abbasi was closely linked to the Islamic Regime's former MInister of Defense, Shamkhani and authored much of the plans to block the Persian Gulf as well as plans to insert the Ghods Brigades (Special Forces for overseas operations)into Iraq via the Basra area and the Northern Kurdish borders.

He has long established ties to the Kurds, who cooperate with him as part of the Freedoms Organizations in their quest for a Kurdish homeland.

Was the attack on the US Embassy in Greece a retaliation for this capture? It fits the Freedom Organizations type of activity and no other recent event clearly warrants this attack.

Pure, unfounded speculation: it could be a diversion to cover up or distract from Khamenei's death or even the "nuclear trigger" version of the explosion in the desert near Kerman.


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1 posted on 01/12/2007 12:55:19 AM PST by FARS
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To: 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; AdmSmith; Alamo-Girl; alaskamomma; ...

Permalink to original article

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaking-news-top-islamic-regime.html


2 posted on 01/12/2007 12:58:38 AM PST by FARS
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To: FARS

How reliable is this source? I'm not familiar with it.


3 posted on 01/12/2007 12:58:45 AM PST by kinoxi
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To: FARS

BTTT


4 posted on 01/12/2007 1:00:01 AM PST by nopardons
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To: kinoxi

Usually right on target


5 posted on 01/12/2007 1:01:18 AM PST by FARS
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To: All

Was also first to break the nuclear type explosion in the Kavir desert of Iran.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaking-news-nuclear-event-in-iran.html


6 posted on 01/12/2007 1:03:42 AM PST by FARS
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To: FARS

BTTT


7 posted on 01/12/2007 1:05:20 AM PST by daybreakcoming
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To: FARS

"Reports from Tehran state that Iran's top IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) strategist, Hassan Abbasi, was captured in the recent raid on the Islamic Iran's office in Erbil, Iraq."

Come on. He was there on holiday.


8 posted on 01/12/2007 1:05:51 AM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: FARS

This sounds like excellent news. They better not make any deals to return him to Iran.


9 posted on 01/12/2007 1:06:22 AM PST by TigersEye (If you don't understand the 2nd Amendment then you don't understand America.)
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To: FARS

Interesting.
BUMP


10 posted on 01/12/2007 1:11:43 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: TigersEye

Abbasi has in the past indicated he has already chosen and set up attack capability on a large number of targets inside the USA and said the Islamic regime would wipe out the Western culture - as a whole - and replace it with Islam.

I hope they don't make any deal to send him back to Iran. If the Kurds do that then I would tend to wonder why we should help them as this Abbasi has plans for us and they don't sound too good. Replace western culture with Islam my arse.


11 posted on 01/12/2007 1:14:43 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: FARS

Absolutely zero on earthquake maps of the area.


12 posted on 01/12/2007 1:20:32 AM PST by DB
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To: pandoraou812

I'm not sure that the Kurds have him. The article doesn't really say. I was assuming at first that the U.S. got him but noticed that it wasn't specified so I considered it possible that the Iraqis might be in custody. Whoever has him better lock him up and bleed him for every bit of intel he can give up.


13 posted on 01/12/2007 1:21:06 AM PST by TigersEye (If you don't understand the 2nd Amendment then you don't understand America.)
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To: FARS
He was only giving spiritual guidance to the Iranians in the "representational" embassy...besides...it's racist to even mention this story..../s
14 posted on 01/12/2007 1:29:28 AM PST by Dallas59 (HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
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To: TigersEye
I'm not sure that the Kurds have him.

If we're fortunate, perhaps they only have "part" of him. Here's to hoping...

15 posted on 01/12/2007 1:39:26 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: TigersEye

I couldn't make that out either. I think we have him or at we should.....If the Iraq's or Kurds have him then they ought to let us get everything we can get out of him.


16 posted on 01/12/2007 1:40:51 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: FARS

If true, Tom Daschle is saddened. Deeply saddened.


17 posted on 01/12/2007 1:42:41 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: All
Hassan Abbasi, was captured in the recent raid on the Islamic Iran's office in Erbil, Iraq.

From the WoC news service: "Speaker Pelosi adjourns the House. Heads delegation to Erbil demanding Mr. Abbasi be freed. Blames Bush for escalation and attack on the US Embassy in Greece."

"Senator Kennedy to lead Senate delegation, demands suspension of bombings of liquor stores first."

18 posted on 01/12/2007 3:22:26 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping. Great news if true!


19 posted on 01/12/2007 3:22:47 AM PST by gotribe (There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)
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To: Dallas59
"...besides...it's racist to even mention this story..."

[snort]

Yah, it's racist to read it. It's racist to think about it. It's racist to even know it exists.
20 posted on 01/12/2007 4:09:00 AM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Hunter/Rumsfeld 2008!])
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To: FARS
His attitude to ... Hashemi Rafsanjani, as the telephone report elaborated, is "like a knife and cheese", meaning he hates Rafsanjani.

Well they couldn't really say "bacon and eggs".

21 posted on 01/12/2007 4:12:47 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: FARS

Let's hope they're waterboarding him right now.


22 posted on 01/12/2007 4:15:16 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: FARS
"Abbasi has in the past indicated he has already chosen and set up attack capability on a large number of targets inside the USA and said the Islamic regime would wipe out the Western culture - as a whole - and replace it with Islam."

Wipe out Western culture and replace it with Islam? I noticed he didn't say Southern culture. No one is going to come here and replace pork bar-b-que with Islam, though I'd love to see him try.

23 posted on 01/12/2007 4:17:10 AM PST by GBA (God Bless America!)
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To: DCPatriot
Waterboarding isn't permitted.(sarcasm)

I hope they give him a couple days of sleep deprivation, and then waterboard him!

24 posted on 01/12/2007 4:19:35 AM PST by airborne (What good is having air superiority if you don't use it?)
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To: FARS
"Reports from Tehran state that Iran's top IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) strategist, Hassan Abbasi, was captured in the recent raid on the Islamic Iran's office in Erbil, Iraq."

Welcome to GiTMO numbnuts. Your room is ready, and we hope we enjoy your stay. There are a lot of activities planned, and we have our ever popular waterboarding events for our particularly honored guests.

(Sometimes the rats have to come out of their holes, and sometimes they get their head stuck in the trap - this is an OUTSTANDING capture!!!!!)

25 posted on 01/12/2007 5:37:24 AM PST by Enterprise (Drop pork bombs on the Islamofascist wankers. Praise the Lord and pass the hammunition.)
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To: Enterprise
There are a lot of activities planned, and we have our ever popular waterboarding events for our particularly honored guests.

It's the Bell telephone hour.

26 posted on 01/12/2007 5:44:45 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Stentor

You know it's Bell when you get that shocking ting-a-ling on your little ding-a-ling.


27 posted on 01/12/2007 5:53:25 AM PST by Enterprise (Drop pork bombs on the Islamofascist wankers. Praise the Lord and pass the hammunition.)
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To: FARS

28 posted on 01/12/2007 6:46:25 AM PST by Gritty (Fretting about an exit strategy from Iraq is what American legislators do, not Iranian ones-Mk Steyn)
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To: FARS

Which was totally bogus.


29 posted on 01/12/2007 6:47:12 AM PST by COEXERJ145 (Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
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To: Blue Jays
Hi All-

Glad to hear it was a successful rdid.

~ Blue Jays ~

30 posted on 01/12/2007 6:48:50 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: FARS

Interesting report, especially if true. It certainly fits in with the Special Ops aspects of the raids.


31 posted on 01/12/2007 6:52:13 AM PST by r9etb
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To: TigersEye
They better not make any deals to return him to Iran.

Right ... they should definitely let him hang around for a while.

32 posted on 01/12/2007 6:52:22 AM PST by TheRightGuy (ERROR CODE 018974523: Random Tagline Compiler Failure)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael; All

"Hassan Abbasi, was captured in the recent raid on the Islamic Iran's office in Erbil, Iraq."

I heard a radio news broadcast yesterday that said we tryed to raid another embasy, but were prevented from doing so by the Kurdish forces. Anybody else hear anything about that?


33 posted on 01/12/2007 7:08:29 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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This analysis looks accurate to me.


34 posted on 01/12/2007 7:51:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("I've learned to live with not knowing." -- Richard Feynman https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: FARS
time to get out the waterboard and battery cables... perhaps the torture tools from the last scenes in Braveheart are available?
35 posted on 01/12/2007 7:55:02 AM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: antisocial; Dog; NormsRevenge; blam; Marine_Uncle; Coop; Cap Huff; TexKat; Allegra
It was the airport...there is a thread on it....

U.S. Troops Stage Second Secret Raid at Iraq Airport

Although it appears it was not DOD folks....unsure anyway...

36 posted on 01/12/2007 8:29:13 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: FARS
Thanks for the ping. Keeping my eye on this........


37 posted on 01/12/2007 8:37:44 AM PST by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: DCPatriot

Waterboarding? Hush your mouth. What they are going to do is give him an all expense paid vacation in the tropical paradise of Guantanamo where he'll be able to enjoy such resort sports as underwater surfboarding.

Hassan Abassi, come on down!


38 posted on 01/12/2007 8:40:49 AM PST by wildbill
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To: FARS
Just posted this:

Iraq backs Iranians seized by US ~ in Irbil Raid...

39 posted on 01/12/2007 8:41:09 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping.


40 posted on 01/12/2007 8:43:18 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: SunkenCiv; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Dog; Marine_Uncle; TexKat

Thanks for the ping...se post #39....big time stuff is gonna hit the fan if what FARS has posted here turns out to be true....


41 posted on 01/12/2007 8:43:50 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: FARS

Embassy in Greece getting mortar attacked, Courts in SoFla (big surprise) getting shut down with suspicious packages, Russia raising hell. Yeah I'd say we got someone important.


42 posted on 01/12/2007 8:55:10 AM PST by kinghorse
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To: antisocial; FARS; TexKat
AP Report:

AP: Detained Iranians Had Iraq Approval ~ Irbil raid...

43 posted on 01/12/2007 9:03:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; TexKat; Marine_Uncle; Captain Ed; Dog; Cap Huff

pingaroo


44 posted on 01/12/2007 9:05:30 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: TigersEye
More details and commentary from the Blogosphere:

Payback From Wayback

*************************AN EXCERPT *******************************8

January 12, 2007
Payback From Wayback

So I presume that the Bush administration meant what they said when they rejected the Iraq Study Group's recommendation for diplomacy with Iran. Or perhaps they decided to apply the kind of armed diplomacy that would get Iran's attention yesterday when they raided an Iranian consular office in Irbil and detained six of its employees in a cordon-and-knock operation:

45 posted on 01/12/2007 9:10:54 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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More:

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The raid was the second surprise seizure of Iranians by the American military in Iraq in recent weeks and came a day after President Bush bluntly warned Iran to quit meddling in Iraqi affairs.

46 posted on 01/12/2007 9:12:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: kinghorse; FARS; SunkenCiv
And we have this:

US troops will leave Iraq “in coffins”: Sadr aide

47 posted on 01/12/2007 9:28:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

yah, and its "profiling" too


48 posted on 01/12/2007 9:47:37 AM PST by pmac
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To: FARS; Dog Gone; Dog; DoctorZIn; Marine_Uncle; Cap Huff
See this:

Was Revolutionary Guard guru, Hassan Abbassi one of those arrested in Erbil?

49 posted on 01/12/2007 10:29:59 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: kinoxi

See link at post #49...


50 posted on 01/12/2007 10:31:07 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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