Posted on 08/17/2007 3:11:34 PM PDT by lowbridge
U.S. captures 'high-priority' Iran officer in Baghdad
BAGHDAD The U.S. military has reported the capture of a senior officer of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps stationed in Baghdad.
U.S. forces, which are taking aim at key Iranian officers based in Iraq, conducted a raid that nabbed the officer of the IRGC's Quds Force and killed three of his aides.
"Coalition troops continue to target terrorists who bring weapons and explosives, especially explosively formed penetrators, and other aid into Iraq," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said. "Coalition forces will continue their focused operations against unhelpful Iranian influence interfering in Iraq."
Officials said IRGC has become a major U.S. target, particularly in the Baghdad area.
"The captured high-priority individual was responsible for smuggling explosively formed penetrators, Katyusha rockets and other weapons from Iran into Iraq," an official said. "The target was also responsible for distributing those weapons to special groups and extremist militants operating throughout Baghdad. The weapons smuggler had direct ties to senior militant leaders and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force."
A military statement said nine gunmen were killed in a series of raids in Iraq. The statement said the detained IRGC officer facilitated the flow of weapons from Iran to Iraq and their distribution to Shi'ite and other militias.
Officials said five others were arrested during the raid. They said Iranian officers were transferring weapons and finances to a range of militias in an effort to force a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.
U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said insurgents have received Iranian 240 mm rockets for attacks against the U.S.-led coalition. Bergner said U.S. forces recovered some of the 240 mm rockets in the Ninveh province on Aug. 14.
"The 240 mm rocket is a large-caliber projectile that has been provided to militia extremists groups in the past along with a range of other weapons from Iranian sources," Bergner said.
The Bush administration plans to designate IRGC a terrorist group. The Quds Force was said to be responsible for liasion with and assistance to a range of Middle East insurgency groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah.
The army also reported the killing of six Al Qaida insurgents and the detention of another 26 fighters in operations east of Balad. U.S. and Iraqi combat units also found a cache of weapons and bombs in an Al Qaida stronghold.
"Terrorists cannot conceal themselves in small villages, disrupting the lives of Iraqi citizens," Garver said. "There was no safe havens for terrorists here, as operations will continue to seek them wherever they hide."
Caught the little buzzard red handed! Ha!
“”All after the capture of a so-called terrorist.””
You blooming idiot ! Can you not make the connection with an Iranian Officer captured in IRAQ and what that implies??
Get on over to the DU board, you’ll find like minds there.
Not even Dil bert?
Dilbert is ok....engineers stick together
let’s torture him by putting panties on his head.
(usually you have to pay extra for that)
Yeah, you'll still have the al Qaeda punks to find and we'd have to pick them off...that jerk in Syria may still have to dealt with, but he really is small potatoes. You'd see a lot of the $$ dry up for Hezbollah and Hamas...I doubt the Saudis would fund a lot of that terrorist crap if they see Iran fall.
He’ll have a diplomatic passport so even though he’s dirty up to the top of his head he’ll have to be let go and returned to Iran.
Troll
Then he can go to GITMO, and he'll appreciate it Fur Shur.
Interrogate this subhuman with ALL available resources, get everything he has, and EXTERMINATE him.
Here we have the very essence of what the WOT is actually about. It is for this that Bush cast aside his personal reputation (such as it was) with the international institutions to which he is not necessarily otherwise estranged. It is for this that we invaded Iraq.
This man (and for the ACLU lurkers, please insert "alleged" in the appropriate locations. Thanks) is a member of a formal state organ who is actively participating in the proliferation of weapons and violence in another country under the auspices of a putative "resistance" movement. In fact, this is state-sponsored terror through proxy armies who are carrying on a stipulated national policy. Furthermore, he has done so under the protection of international law in the form of the sanctuary of his own border and its ability to protect the origins of the terror that he has been caught introducing into Iraq.
He is not, obviously, unique; in fact, he represents an entire method of warfare that has formed around the structure of internationalist systems - the UN, the ICC, etc, etc - who regard this activity as an entirely permissible control over the United States. Not formally, of course. A certain amount of winking and pretense is involved, naturally, but in fact this man typifies precisely the form of illegitimate warfare the acceptance of which is the price the West is expected to pay in return for the highly dubious benefits of participation in the system. Bush's great crime to them was that he opted out.
Were it up to me the man would be stood up in front of a wall and shot. He is an enemy combatant who (presumably) has eschewed a uniform and hence the protection that offers under the Geneva convention. And those who sent him are absolutely subject to retaliation in kind. Were it up to me Ahmadinejad's next motorcade might run into some serious mechanical difficulties courtesy of the same EFP's he has directed be used on our troops. That is the only thing short of open war that might be convincing enough. We've been at covert war for some time.
DAMN RIGHT!!!
At times like this, we need to have a Hollywood-style sound stage/studio that simulates the roaring fires of Hell itself, with a satanic version of Saddam’s industrial shredding machine, and of course a Saddam look-alike, and after knocking out the Iranian with some dope, let the scumbag wake up to blazing flames, smoke, sparks, horrifying demonic laughter, and ‘Saddam’ preparing for the SOB’s eternal shredding...
I believe that is what we are seeing here.
I believe that you are making a very good point.
Waiting for Iraq to reach a certain level of stability would completely explain why we haven’t addressed Iran (yet).
Though I agree completely,
I feel that Russia and China are gonna attack Iran without joining the conflict.
Any Iranian-supplied weapons captured in Iraq should be returned to the muzzie bastards live and inbound, and if they don’t have the range to make it back, we could afford to air mail them randomly in the vicinity of Tehran.
Thanks again for the ping.
Yes.
They still do.
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