If the the General says so, it is about time.
"So let it be written; so let it be done."
Posted on 10/05/2007 6:25:08 PM PDT by nuconvert
US General: Five Iranians Detained in Iraq Should Not be Released
October 05, 2007
AFP
Yahoo News!
WASHINGTON -- General Raymond Odierno, the number two leader of US forces in Iraq, said in an interview published Friday that he will recommend that the five Iranians that US forces detained in Iraq in January should not be released.
Their case will be reviewed this month, and according to The Washington Post it is so sensitive that it is being reviewed by the White House.
"Militarily, we should hold on to them," Odierno told the Post.
US forces detained the five in the Kurdish city of Irbil, and say they were helping insurgents fighting US-led forces in Iraq.
Iran insists the captives are diplomats working at Tehran's consulate in Irbil.
Iranian officials continue to demand their release, arguing that the five did nothing illegal.
Separately, Iraq is calling for the release of Mahmudi Farhadi, another Iranian US forces detained September 20 in Sulaimaniyah, also in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region.
In Baghdad, Major General Kevin Bergner told reporters Wednesday that "multiple sources" implicated Farhadi in providing weapons to "Iraqi criminal elements in the service of Iran."
Iran condemned what it called the "unwarranted" arrest of Farhani, described as a businessman in Iraq at the invitation of the Kurdish regional government.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has slammed the arrest as illegal and demanded Farhadi's release.
And on September 24, Iran shut its frontiers with Iraq in protest, causing mayhem at the border and major economic losses to traders in the Kurdish region.
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Send them to Getmo.and forget them.
From now on kill them in the “heat of the battle”.
So Iran is admitting to an act of war. If their diplomats are running guns to terrorists, that should be understood as an act of war. Either the "diplomats" are free-lancing, and subject to arrest, or they are running guns in their official capacity as Iranian diplomats, which means they have diplomatic immunity, but it also means Iran has committed an act of war against Iraq (and by extension, the US).
Iran, by backing these guys, is admitting to an act of war. That should have consequences that will make them sit up and take notice. From this day forward Iranian leaders should go to bed at night wondering if they will live to see morning.
If the the General says so, it is about time.
"So let it be written; so let it be done."
We could go Templar on them and fire their heads back to Iran from a cannon.
KEEP THEM, USA. Otherwise, they'll be back to kill our troops.
They should be tried as spies.
What good reason could an Iranian have for even being in Iraq? Iranians have no business being in Iraq.
In Baghdad, Major General Kevin Bergner told reporters Wednesday that "multiple sources" implicated Farhadi in providing weapons to "Iraqi criminal elements in the service of Iran."
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has slammed the arrest as illegal and demanded Farhadi's release.
When I read crap like this from IRAQI leaders I wonder why we're there.
“When I read crap like this from IRAQI leaders I wonder why we’re there.”
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Consider the source of this article; it’s the Commie AFP out of Paris. They seek to cast our experiences in Iraq in the worst possible light, specifically because they want you to ask “why are we there?”
Those are not mutually exclusive statements. They very well could be "diplomats" and also helping, or directing, the insurgents.
Iranian officials continue to demand their release, arguing that the five did nothing illegal.
I'm sure under Iranian Sharia law, they didn't.
And if the Mad Mullahs and Angry Ayatollahs want them, they can (try to) come to Gitmo and get them.
A likely successor to Petraeus running the whole show.
When I read crap like this from IRAQI leaders I wonder why we're there. Talabani is a Kurd. He is getting lots of pressure from home to release this guy so the Iranians will open the borders for trade again. It is short sighted, to be sure, but it may be that he is saying this in public but saying something else in private.
Perhaps we can work out a compromise. Let's drop them off in Tehran...out of a plane at 10000 ft with no parachute.
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