Posted on 12/27/2010 11:38:34 PM PST by neverdem
From Afghanistan, some surprising news: U.S. and coalition forces have arrested a member of Iran's notorious Qods Force who was simultaneously serving as a Taliban commander. But sophisticated foreign policy observers have said for years that the Taliban and Iran were adversaries, even enemies – that they come from different strains of Islam and have cultural differences that would preclude cooperation? They would never work together, right?
For years we've known about the increasingly lethal support Iran has been providing the Taliban various insurgents in Afghanistan. (See here, here, here, here, and here.) And yet senior Obama administration officials have either downplayed the seriousness of Iran's support or ignored it altogether, despite a never-ending series of reports from the U.S. military that such coordination is happening.
Interestingly, ISAF officially confirmed the dual role of the captured operative, but later reversed itself. But Long War Journal's Bill Roggio has a source that stands by the original claim.
Let's hope we're not muzzling the military now, too.
ISAF rejected the claim because they intend to give him back. The way this war is conducted is a farce.
I wonder if he is an Iranian citizen - that would make a difference - or an Afghan who grew up in Iran - one of the refugee families.
When the government and the media are in cahoots against the will of the people you get the "If a tree falls in the forest ... " scenario.
put him in front of a wall and shoot him
Send back the body
Parachuted out of a U-2 over Tehran
And yet senior Obama administration officials have either downplayed the seriousness of Iran's support or ignored it altogether, despite a never-ending series of reports from the U.S. military that such coordination is happening.
0 and his buddies never heard of the old Arab adage: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
——Our religions and our histories are different, but our target is the same - we both want to kill Americans——
It is for this reason that on the other side of the Gulf, there is a coalition to war with Iran and thus Al Queda. The moment of precipitation is not yet at hand but it is in process. Until the Mullah’s in Iran are ousted, no one in the region is safe.
Amen! Or hang him from his balls from the Empire State Building....
The primary target of both factions is any non-Muslim. Their 2nd priority is each other.
Actually, the primary targets of both groups is control of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf.
better release him just to be on the safe side.
Iranian soldier captured in Afghanistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2646946/posts
NATO captures ‘Iranian arms smuggler’ in Afghanistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2647132/posts
Followed by establishing the world wide caliphate.
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