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A U.S. Commando Team Is Getting Close to the Iran Border
Atlantice Wire ^

Posted on 01/20/2012 10:16:07 AM PST by nuconvert

An Army officer speaking on behalf of special forces confirmed on Thursday that a team of "highly trained personnel that excel in uncertain environments" are operating near Iran. Spencer Ackerman just published the scoop on Wired's Danger Room blog:

The primary, day-to-day mission of the team, known as Joint Special Operations Task Force-Gulf Coordinating Council, is to mentor military units belonging to the U.S.' oil-rich Arab allies, who collectively are known as the Gulf Coordinating Council. Those Arab states consider Iran to be their primary foreign threat.

The task force provides "highly trained personnel that excel in uncertain environments," Maj. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for special-operations forces in the Mideast, tells Danger Room, and "seeks to confront irregular threats."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; looselips; nationalsecurity; threats
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To: SgtHooper; ASA Vet; Travis McGee

False Flags have they’re uses........


41 posted on 01/20/2012 12:11:15 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Venturer

Venturer,
I was in the U.S. Army during late Viet Nam.
Went to Fort Gordon for communications.
At that time there were a couple thousand troops from the mid east going to the same schools. I looked in to it at the time and found out there are literally tens of thousands of foreign troops here ALL the time learning how to better fight using our tactics, equipment and structures.
Hell, just yesterday I was at the Saint Lucie County airport with my wife having breakfast at the Tiki and there were two mid east guys there going to pilot schooling there.\
Happens all the time still.


42 posted on 01/20/2012 12:15:38 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: DuncanWaring

Ultimately, The Won is not particularly concerned about his re-election.

His primary goal is to destroy this country and Western Civilization with it.

If it gets him killed in the process, he'll die happy because he knows that a billion babarians around the globe will sing his praises for generations as “The one who destroyed the Great Satan”.

I couldn't agree with you more....the facts of zer0, that all, even his Republican competitors are afraid to verbalize

43 posted on 01/20/2012 12:21:34 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: nuconvert

I’d be disappointed if we didn’t already have people in Iran.

You can bet your ass that they are here.


44 posted on 01/20/2012 12:27:34 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's War on Prosperity is killing me)
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To: nuconvert
Maj. Rob Bockholt? Wasn't he one of Sgt. Fury's Howlin’ Commandos in the Marvel Comic series?
45 posted on 01/20/2012 12:44:24 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: SgtHooper

Yeah right. And they have telepathic powers and shoot fire from their arse.


46 posted on 01/20/2012 12:52:23 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: nuconvert

Iran’s borders with Iraq and Afghanistan are not easily defined.
Nephew served one tour in Iraq and another in Afghanistan.
He claims that excursions across the border were commonplace.


47 posted on 01/20/2012 1:13:49 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: SgtHooper
Someone please drive their boot up his ass, ram his weapon down his throat, and tell him to shut up!

If somebody is publicly and officially making statements like that, then they have a reason to be doing so. If they didn't have permission, their careers would be over and they'd be in hot water.

Somebody is sending a signal to Iran or to allies in the region.
48 posted on 01/20/2012 1:31:05 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Jim Robinson; nuconvert; Lancey Howard; jazusamo

This website is either insane or traitorous. We should never reveal clandestine activities, and especially of special operators. We could get them killed. Granted their is information warfare, misinformation/disinformation, but for the most part “loose lips sink ships”.


49 posted on 01/20/2012 1:31:52 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: Jim Robinson; nuconvert; Lancey Howard; jazusamo

This website is either insane or traitorous. We should never reveal clandestine activities, and especially of special operators. We could get them killed. Granted there is information warfare, misinformation/disinformation, but for the most part “loose lips sink ships”.


50 posted on 01/20/2012 1:32:34 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins

Shoot, if I were 40 years younger, I’d lead these special ops guys right up Takht-i-Jamshid in Teheran. We could retake the old embassy compound, then I could lead them to a couple of swell restaurants in the area.


51 posted on 01/20/2012 2:29:28 PM PST by Ax
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To: af_vet_rr

“Somebody is sending a signal to Iran or to allies in the region”

Maybe so, but non-public leaks are just as effective.


52 posted on 01/20/2012 2:39:58 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: nuconvert

Is Obama trying to get them captured?


53 posted on 01/20/2012 2:41:03 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: nuconvert

BS


54 posted on 01/20/2012 3:12:32 PM PST by Sarajevo (Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental)
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To: freedomson

I agree, whole heartedly, with your experience of Christian Arabs. Your vision is clear on the islamic scourge affecting the Arab world. I would, however, caution against indicting all Muslims.
I have operated in the middle east and Afghanistan and have worked with Sunni and Shia Muslims. I have broke bread with them in villages. They were good folks, who had dreams to prosper and raise their families, as we do. They were not Jihadis, but respectful and prayerful people.


55 posted on 01/20/2012 3:12:43 PM PST by roughman ( roughmen stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm (orwell))
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To: SgtHooper
Maybe so, but non-public leaks are just as effective.

Publicly stating something carries a lot more authority with it. This is not a new thing, the Pentagon has done this for decades.
56 posted on 01/20/2012 3:16:45 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: nuconvert

Spencer Ackerman is the prick who did the expose’ about the FBI training material which led to all the changes by barry’s Dept of Jihad.


57 posted on 01/20/2012 3:25:02 PM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: ASA Vet

Good - can you play Geraldo Revera and give us the coordinates...we wouldn’t want anyone surprised!


58 posted on 01/20/2012 4:10:31 PM PST by LiteKeeper ("Who is John Galt?")
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To: All

A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

#

Is the article true?
I don’t know.

If it is true why is it public?

Summing it up; Americans with loose lips (a/k/a m.f.’s] should be charged with treason.


59 posted on 01/20/2012 4:17:52 PM PST by Cindy
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To: nuconvert; All

“Special Forces” are not “commandos.” That is if they mean U.S. Army Special Forces (AKA Green Berets). It the Army Rangers or “Delta” that are more akin to “commandos.”


60 posted on 01/20/2012 6:08:39 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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