Who mastered explosives and fireworks ages ago? 
Posted on 10/01/2007 10:48:15 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Multinational Forces Iraq and the Iraqi military continue to attack the Iranian-backed Special Groups while interdicting weapons flowing from the neighboring country. Fifteen members of the Special Groups were captured in Baghdad on Sunday. The US military has disclosed the identity of the Qods Force officer captured in the northern Kurdish province of Sulimaniyah on September 20, and has stated Iran is sending portable surface-to-air missiles to Shia insurgents.
During a Sunday press briefing in Baghdad, Rear Admiral Mark Fox identified Mahmudi Farhadi as the Iranian Qods Force officer captured in Sulimaniyah. Farhadi is the sixth Qods Force officer that the US has announced is in custody. Five senior Qods Force officers were captured in Irbil in January 2007.
Iran closed the northern border immediately after Farhadi was captured, claiming he was a businessman. "I find it hard to believe that they would close the border for a businessman," Fox said.
Fox also stated Iran has supplied the Special Groups with Misagh-1 man-portable surface-to-air missiles. The Special Groups is a terrorist organization trained, funded, and supplied by Iran and is set up on the lines of Lebanese Hezbollah by the Qods Force.
"We've said that we've found these things [the Misagh 1 missiles], we've seen them employed," Fox said. The Misagh-1 design is based on the Chinese made QW-1, which "caught the attention of foreign media and research institutions when it was first introduced to the public [at an air show in 1994] because it was claimed to surpass the US Stinger in maximum effective range, target seeker tracking capability, warhead power and other indicators," according to Global Security.
It is unclear if the Misagh-1s have been successful in downing US or allied aircraft. The investigation into the downing of a British Lynx helicopter in Basra in May 2006 found that a "lucky shot" with an RPG was the cause of the crash.
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Farhadi was captured, claiming he was a businessman.
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just importing a little terror is all.
So we’ve sent the bombers in right? Right.....
The Chinese made ones.. ? hmmmm.
Just shows what Business Iran is in!
My mistake, the made like a Chinese model , not the same as Made in China.. I reckun,, but close.. ;-)
Who mastered explosives and fireworks ages ago?
This won’t mean anything to the nation’s talking heads and Democrats but I am confident that the military and Pentagon are adjusting and planning accordingly.
This supplies indisputable evidence that Iranians are killing American and Coalition forces and something must be done about it.
I would suggest that something is being done about this, but we don’t need to know anything about it-if you know what I mean! All is fair in love and war.....
Excellent news....the hits just keep on comin’
But the West advanced the technology...
Fear and Loathing in Iran [Iran and Syria snookered in buying air defense systems from Russia]
Thanks for sharing. Just came from perusing the mnf site, http://www.mnf-iraq.com/ and there appears to be much good news there lately... several articles about bad guys and AQI being captured.
God Bless our Military
When Amadinnerjacket arrived in NYC and checked into his hotel, the first thing he should have found in his room was Mr. Farhadi sitting in a chair by the window....with a small round hole between his eyes.
Outstanding work!
Execute him.
“We caught them and shot them under Rule 303!” - Breaker Morant
That's the thing I picked up on as well. Yesterday we had the Seymore Hersh piece quoting former inspecter Magoo, David Kay, saying there is nothing new about Iranians being in Iraq, the kind of ordnance we are finding could have come from anywhere, and oh, by the way, they weren't finding any SAMs.
I see David Kay is just as smart know as he was 4 years ago.
I doubt it. If anything ever slipped out (and there are plenty of people in the CIA and other bureaucracies just dying to let things slip out) to the media that we are waging war beyond Iraq and Afghanistan then it would put the administration on the defense about all this and it is totally unnecessary. If Bush decides to do something about Iran, it needs to be overt and not covert. And, it needs to clear the sinuses of the Syrians, North Koreans, and anybody else who would contemplate waging a proxy war with us ever again. The American people will rally behind him on this if he can prove that Iran has been doing this.
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