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US General: Five Iranians Detained in Iraq Should Not be Released
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| October 05, 2007
Posted on 10/05/2007 6:25:08 PM PDT by nuconvert
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posted on
10/05/2007 6:25:16 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: Dog; AdmSmith; jeffers
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posted on
10/05/2007 6:25:43 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
To: All
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posted on
10/05/2007 6:27:35 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Cindy
Send them to Getmo.and forget them.
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posted on
10/05/2007 6:32:56 PM PDT
by
jocko12
To: nuconvert
From now on kill them in the “heat of the battle”.
To: nuconvert
Iran insists the captives are diplomats working at Tehran's consulate in Irbil. 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.
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posted on
10/05/2007 6:42:49 PM PDT
by
marron
To: nuconvert
recommend? should? WTF
If the the General says so, it is about time.
"So let it be written; so let it be done."
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posted on
10/05/2007 6:55:29 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: nuconvert
We could go Templar on them and fire their heads back to Iran from a cannon.
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posted on
10/05/2007 7:18:15 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
To: nuconvert
They've probably gotten lots of great intel out of 'em. Too late Iran...
KEEP THEM, USA. Otherwise, they'll be back to kill our troops.
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posted on
10/05/2007 7:19:35 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: nuconvert
They should be tried as spies.
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posted on
10/05/2007 7:25:57 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Get Reid and Harkin out of the Senate.)
To: nuconvert
I certainly hope that they are getting a lot of time on the waterboard.
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posted on
10/05/2007 7:26:34 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: marron
Yes, it is an act of war.
What good reason could an Iranian have for even being in Iraq? Iranians have no business being in Iraq.
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posted on
10/05/2007 7:34:55 PM PDT
by
tear gas
To: Parley Baer
I kinda prefer the Kill all but one, and send him back maimed...
To: nuconvert
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."
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.
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posted on
10/05/2007 8:26:23 PM PDT
by
Maynerd
(Hilary = amnesty and socialized medicine)
To: Maynerd
“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?”
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posted on
10/05/2007 8:47:56 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: nuconvert
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. 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.
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posted on
10/05/2007 8:54:45 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: nuconvert
"Militarily, we should hold on to them," And if the Mad Mullahs and Angry Ayatollahs want them, they can (try to) come to Gitmo and get them.
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posted on
10/05/2007 8:59:05 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: nuconvert
Gotta like Odieiino - he lead the group that tracked down and caught Saddam....the guy is tough and good.
A likely successor to Petraeus running the whole show.
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posted on
10/05/2007 9:25:31 PM PDT
by
HardStarboard
(Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
To: Maynerd
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. 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.
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posted on
10/06/2007 6:28:27 AM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: El Gato
And if the Mad Mullahs and Angry Ayatollahs want them, they can (try to) come to Gitmo and get them. 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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posted on
10/06/2007 6:30:43 AM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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