Posted by
The Crawfish on Sunday, September 23, 2007 9:27:13 AM
More news from this past week......
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — An Iranian officer accused of smuggling powerful roadside bombs into Iraq was arrested Thursday in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
The arrest could add to tensions between Washington and Tehran already strained by the detention of each other's citizens as well as U.S. accusations of Iranian involvement in Iraq's violence and Iran's disputed nuclear program.
The military said the suspect was a member of the Quds force — an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards — and was seized from a hotel in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.
The Iranian officer was allegedly involved in transporting roadside bombs, including armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, into Iraq, according to a military statement. It said intelligence reports also indicated he was involved in the infiltration and training of foreign fighters in Iraq.
Okay, so we have a member of the Iranian military actively assisting in attacks on American and Coalition forces is Iraq. I don't want to "add to tensions between Washington and Tehran." I want to make sure that the Iranians know to keep their people and their equipment inside their own country or they will get hammered. Some of their military bases should cease to exist, IMMEDIATELY!
Officials have said the Bush administration is expected to soon blacklist the Quds force as a terrorist organization, subjecting part of Iran's vast military operation to financial sanctions. Detentions of Iranians remain a sensitive issue following the brief August detention by U.S. troops of eight Iranian nationals in a central Baghdad hotel and the January arrest of five Iranians during a U.S. raid in the northern city of Irbil.
While the eight Iranians were promptly released in Baghdad after it was established they were on an official visit to Iraq, the other five remain in custody.
U.S. authorities have said the five included the operations chief and other members of the Quds force. Iran has consistently denied U.S. allegations it is arming and training fighters in Iraq, and insists the five were diplomats in Iraq with permission of the government.
I really hope that the Bush Administration is preparing to ignore the unConstitutional restriction on the taking out of foreign leaders. We should have CIA/Spec-Ops teams in Iran trying to locate the head Weird Beards that are the real leaders of the government. Find them, fix them, and let a J-DAM from a B-2 that they never saw on their radars send them to their 72 virgin camels.