Posted on 06/06/2008 10:26:56 AM PDT by pissant
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Iraq has captured the deputy military chief of the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah, coalition officials said.
Iraqi sources said the U.S. Army has arrested the No. 2 figure in Hizbullah's military wing. The sources said the unidentified Hizbullah commander was responsible for training the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army in the Baghdad area.
"The arrest is a major achievement and could provide an intelligence bonanza," an Iraqi source said.
The U.S.-led coalition has reported the capture of a senior Iranian operative south of Baghdad. In a coalition statement, the operative was described as a "primary weapons smuggler and financier for Iranian-backed enemy fighters."
The arrest was said to have taken place on Thursday in Mahawil, south of Baghdad. The coalition statement said the target was a leader of the Iranian-sponsored Special Groups.
"Acting on intelligence information, coalition forces conducted a raid on the home of the suspected Special Groups leader in Mahawil, south of Baghdad," the statement said on Thursday. "He surrendered without incident."
The U.S. military also reported the arrest of another senior Iranian operative. The unidentified operative, captured east of Kut, was identified as a Special Groups member and "the primary weapons smuggler and financier for Iranian-backed enemy elements in that area."
"The suspect and an associate surrendered when coalition forces stormed their location," the statement said.
The coalition has corrected claims made by the Iraq Army and security forces of the capture of leading insurgents. In May, the Interior Ministry reported the arrest of Al Qaida network chief Abu Ayyoub Al Masri. Hours later, the ministry retracted the report.
Still, Iraqi and U.S. officials agreed that the Lebanese-based Hizbullah has been a leading tool in the Iranian training and direction of Shi'ite militias, particularly the Mahdi Army and Special Groups. The officials said Hizbullah officers, favored by Teheran over Iranian nationals, conceal their identity even from the Shi'ite groups they train.
Oh yes, Iran is our friend. They have done more than the US in stabilizing the situation in Iraq. /s
maybe osamaobama wants to talk to him “without any preconditions”
Well, so much for that other headline that read “Hezbollah intends to attack US in Iraq”...Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of terrorists. Hope we blow a few up as well.
If you know what I mean.
Vice Grips.. Check.
Rubber hose.. Check.
Hillary Sings the Blues CD.. Check.
Send Barak Hussein Obama over there for a no-preconditions discussion with these clowns.
None of that easy stuff, go straight for the panties on the head!
"Acting on intelligence information, coalition forces conducted a raid on the home of the suspected Special Groups leader in Mahawil, south of Baghdad," the statement said on Thursday. "He surrendered without incident."
"He surrendered without incident." Of course he did: he's much too valuable to blow himself up. Plus that makes such a mess, and you can't watch television in prison afterwards...
He’d talk to them like he talked to his “church”.
“”The suspect and an associate surrendered when coalition forces stormed their location,””
I thought these guys all wanted to be martyrs? Yet they throw up their hands the second we bust down the door. Drain their brain and then..........
I hope they have his size GTMO T shirt
I guess that all that: "We love death more than you love life" and "I joyfully embrace martyrdom in the cause of Allah" fooferaw goes right out the window when an M16 is pointed at you.
Paging Speaker Pelosi. Speaker Pelosi, please put on your hijab and pick up the white courtesy phone...
}:-)4
Vice Grips? We should be better than that!
Instead of waterboarding, maybe we should try “enhanced baptisms” to help him see the light.
Nice!
Cut his head off.
We have concrete evidence of Iranian & Hezbollah operations againt US forces in Iraq.
WHY have we not gone after both of them? They’ve spilled American blood- let’s spill a sh*tload of theirs!
More evidence...of Iran meddling in Iraq.
Allah Fubar! That "martyr" crap is for dumb asses, scrubs, retards and losers.
Wonder if they’re going to try the diplomatic immunity ploy again...
Or cook some bacon right in front of him in an airtight room.
Load him up with Versed IV continuous drip and his iv narcotic of choice and turn him over to the Iraqis for questioning.
Tide's coming in too.
Excellent!
How many “top commanders” do these terror groups have, anyway? Must be a hell of a turnover.
Its not the surge that is working, according to Nancy, Iran is persuading towns such as Basra to stop fightin the US. I’m sure he was in town to continue the Iranian efforts to spread peace in the ME.
Water board, vacuum clean his “brain”, try him as a spy, convict him as a spy — shoot him.
Shouldn’t take more than a week or two..
When THAT becomes the drill — I’ll start believing we’re serious about fighting these &^%(*&^%(*&^%
I prefer something a little less civilized Yoko Ono singing Show tunes.
It may even be against the Geneva convention, but what the Hey Hizbullah is not a signatory.
remove the ability to reproduce, while yer at it.
And yet, they're getting their butts royally kicked. Mostly by the Iraqi Army. What does that tell you, Iran?
Get the H-E-double-hockeysticks out of Iraq. They're going to be free whether you nasty mullahs like it or not.
“Hillary Sings the Blues CD.. Check.”
Now thats just wrong!
I say let him sit and listen to 3 hours of obamas “Hope and Change” CRAP!
lets talk him like you would talk to your old slightly deranged uncle
Board? Check.
Tanker truck full of water? Check.
Let the games begin......
If we would just talk to them...
We just need some diplomacy. They really are good people, we just haven't tried to understand them. < /s>
water board him
Indicators from all over, including remote sectors in places like India are coming in, including inferences inside Iran, that we are about to hit Iran. The only question still pending is how hard. Camps or targets just near the fairly long Iraq Iran border or deeper in. Such as the recent Kurdish foray all the way into Tehran, where they attacked the Islamic Air Force Command Center killing three officers and wounding eight or so.
Total news blackout there on this after the first burst.
Israel’s recent open warning that it would attack if Iran continues to follow nuclear development adds to this assessment. Lots of other indicators but it’s been a long hard week and we are too tired.
If someone compiles it, or starts it and others contribute, AntiMullah will definitely post it, too. To share it with a very different audience than FR. No secrets please.
At worst it will make the Mullahs squirm more than they already are.
Their anxiety can be seen when Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei’s plan to annoint and “appoint” the father of his new daughter in law - Haddad Adel - as the next President of Iran next year and dump the Turd there now, has been amended to possibly get “reformist” former President Khatami back into that position as a stalking horse to show Iran is becoming more flexible.
The only ones who might be fooled or accept this “change” and thus be free to make lucrative deals with Iran is the West.
The Iranian people are so disappointed by how Khatami let them down and implemented none of his reformist promises, that this “change” would not get any support inside Islamic Iran.
Simply become a useless profile like Obama’s calls for changes he does not have the hope of a snowflake in hell of implementing but makes terrific rhetorical oratory to the idiot Dems and their ignorant/ naive supporters (for the most part). No other excuse for accepting the impossible promises Obama makes - other than wishful thinking.
Which is exactly how Khomeini handled his Iran take over. Are we really ready to follow in Iran’s (much regreted by almost everyone there) footsteps?
“When THAT becomes the drill — I’ll start believing we’re serious about fighting these &^%(*&^%(*&^%”
Amen.
Semper Fi
Stop everything! Sen McCain forbids anything harsher than the Comfy Chair.
“Captured”? I don’t want no “captured”....
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks Ernest and FARS. This is pretty big news.
I find in Robert Spencer's The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam that no less than Ayatollah Khamenei said that while some fools claim jihad is a perversion of Islam it is not--it is ordered by the Quran.Let those verses be written on the back of our new Hizbollah brother--I have a selection of soldering irons.
It isn't torture if I can't hear it.
What? What?
Try some ordnance.
...the U.S. Army has arrested the No. 2 figure in Hizbullah's military wing... responsible for training the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army in the Baghdad area... The U.S. military also reported the arrest of another senior Iranian operative... captured east of Kut, was identified as a Special Groups member and "the primary weapons smuggler and financier for Iranian-backed enemy elements in that area. The suspect and an associate surrendered when coalition forces stormed their location," the statement said... Iraqi and U.S. officials agreed that the Lebanese-based Hizbullah has been a leading tool in the Iranian training and direction of Shi'ite militias, particularly the Mahdi Army and Special Groups. The officials said Hizbullah officers, favored by Teheran over Iranian nationals, conceal their identity even from the Shi'ite groups they train.
Thanks for the ping.
Bookmarked
Destroy islam in iran and you bring Iran back to the present, leave islam alive and Iran will just become a more powerful moslem enemy....
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