Iranian Special-ops Unit Flees Iraq to Avoid Capture
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September 12, 2007
The Examiner
Rowan Scarborough
Fearing capture, a special-operations unit that reports directly to Iran's ruling mullahs has fled Iraq, U.S. defense officials say. Tehran's decision to recall the Qods Forces is being hailed inside the U.S. command in Baghdad because it rids Iraq, at least for now, of a particularly lethal group. Qods operatives, who might have numbered in the hundreds inside Iraq, armed and trained Shiite extremists who have killed American troops and Iraqis.
Qods is the covert section of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the enforcement arm of the Tehran regime. Qods is the only unit in the Corps that answers to the hard-line mullahs.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, disclosed the Qods Forces' return to Iran in congressional testimony Monday, but did not elaborate.
Defense sources told The Examiner on Wednesday that Tehran recalled the Qods Forces out of concern that more Iranian operatives would be captured and disclose valuable information about how Iran is funding, training and arming Iraqi Shiites.
U.S. Looks to Sanctions on Iran's Quds Force
Washington Post/Reuters ^ | September 12, 2007
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U.S. officials said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was furious over the leak, which one diplomat said was seen as a deliberate attempt by hawks in the administration to push the State Department to take firmer action against Iran.
Several senior U.S. officials said a decision had been made not to label the entire Guard Corps a terrorist group, partly because some of Washington's allies disagreed with the move and also because of the legalities involved.
The thinking was now to impose strong financial measures against the Quds without calling it a terrorist group.
Remove Mookie on the way into Iran. Bomb them for weeks before going in. Not just a bit....have the munitions factories prepare to make smart bombs and iron bombs on a 24 hour schedule for the next several months. Fly everything that a bomb can be strapped to over that rats nest and crater it worse than the moon. Cities and all.