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Report: Iran army loses touch with senior officer based in Iraq
Haaretz.com ^ | March 14, 2007 | Haaretz Service

Posted on 03/14/2007 5:41:11 AM PDT by edpc

The London-based Arabic language newspaper A-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday that the Iranian army has lost contact with one of its high-ranking officers based in Iraq.

The report states that the officer, Mohammed Muhsayin Shiradi, from a unit in the Jerusalem Brigade, has not been in touch with his commanders for three weeks.

A senior source in the Iranian military told the newspaper that it is possible that Shiradi has been arrested by American forces.

Iran is already concerned by the disappearance last month of its former deputy defense minister, who vanished in Istabul. Tehran claims that Ali Reza Asghari has been abducted, and accused the United States and Israel of orchestrating his kidnap.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post last week cited a senior U.S. official as saying that Asghari had left his country and was willingly giving with Western intelligence agencies information on Hezbollah and Iranian ties to the group.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; jerusalembrigade; qudsforce
Hard to say if a story from a story can be reliable, but it looks like someone got caught up in the surge. An excerpt from a January 2007 US News and World Report article below.....

Iran's efforts to foment chaos in Iraq are primarily carried out by the Iranian intelligence service and the Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds (Jerusalem) Brigade, the foreign operations arm of the Iranian military, which also supports Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories.

1 posted on 03/14/2007 5:41:19 AM PDT by edpc
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I wonder if Shiradi's family is missing as well. They could be planning a reunion in Turkey, I hear it's all the rage these days.


2 posted on 03/14/2007 5:46:05 AM PDT by Quilla
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Another intel victory for the good guys?

Cool, perhaps our intel folks can redeem themselves yet!


3 posted on 03/14/2007 5:46:36 AM PDT by padre35 (I am from the "let's stop eating our own" wing of the Republican Party)
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A senior source in the Iranian military told the newspaper that it is possible that Shiradi has been arrested by American forces.

Anything is possible. He might be drunk in a brothel or abducted by aliens in a flying saucer.

4 posted on 03/14/2007 5:48:04 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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Maybe this is the warning we need. If an Iranian bigshot sets foot outside Iran, he'll be snatched and waterboarded until he tells us what we need to know. Hajjis HATE the waterboard! It can turn a clam into a canary so fast Harry Potter would be jealous.


5 posted on 03/14/2007 5:51:55 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord shall be born as the seventh month dies.")
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What is tempting these high-profiel Iranians away? Are we shelling out some well-spent millions here?


6 posted on 03/14/2007 6:12:15 AM PDT by Teacher317 (Are you familiar with the writings of Shan Yu?)
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To: edpc

Sounds like we're finally beginning to put the screws to the Iranians. Good.


7 posted on 03/14/2007 6:12:52 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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GRRRRRRREAT News!


8 posted on 03/14/2007 6:46:47 AM PDT by PGalt
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I'll be the first to say it...

Another satisfied customer of the Mossad Taxi Service!

9 posted on 03/14/2007 7:04:19 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: edpc

More good news from the front.


10 posted on 03/14/2007 8:13:43 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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