Headline, Times of London, One Week Ago Today: “Iran To Hit Back At U.S. ‘Kidnaps’”
Highligthed Excerpt: “Despite the Iranian threat to retaliate in Europe, Iraq is seen by some analysts as a more likely place in which to attempt abductions.”
” ‘In Iraq, the (Iranian) Quds Force can easily get hold of American - and British - officers’ said a Jordanian Intelligence source.”
Excerpted From The Times, March 18, 2007
by Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv:
IRAN is threatening to retaliate in Europe for what it claims is a daring undercover operation by western intelligence services to kidnap senior officers in its Revolutionary Guard.
According to Iranian sources, several officers have been abducted in the past three months and the United States has drawn up a list of other targets to be seized with the aim of destabilising Tehran’s military command.
In an article in Subhi Sadek, the Revolutionary Guard’s weekly paper, Reza Faker, a writer believed to have close links to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, warned that Iran would strike back.
“We’ve got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks,” he said. “Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis.”
The first sign of a possible campaign against high-ranking Iranian officers emerged earlier this month with the discovery that Ali Reza Asgari, former commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force in Lebanon and deputy defence minister, had vanished, apparently during a trip to Istanbul.
Asgari’s disappearance shocked the Iranian regime as he is believed to possess some of its most closely guarded secrets. The Quds Force is responsible for operations outside Iran.
Last week it was revealed that Colonel Amir Muhammed Shirazi, another high-ranking Revolutionary Guard officer, had disappeared, probably in Iraq.
A third Iranian general is also understood to be missing — the head of the Revolutionary Guard in the Persian Gulf. Sources named him as Brigadier General Muhammed Soltani, but his identity could not be confirmed.
“This is no longer a coincidence, but rather an orchestrated operation to shake the higher echelons of the Revolutionary Guard,” said an Israeli source.
Other members of the Quds Force are said to have been seized in Irbil, in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq, by US special forces.
“The capture of Quds members in Irbil was essential for our understanding of Iranian activity in Iraq,” said an American official with knowledge of the operation.
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Hmmmmmm, I can just see it now. The left will of course insist that the Brits were in Iranian water, and spying.
Then Bush will catch hell from them for capturing Iranians in Iraq, and lay the blame for it on him. Naturally they will insist that we release all the Iranians that we have captured in Iraq, then pass an emergeny supplemental spending bill that would send 20 plus Billion to iran for damages.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am[…] Also recall the report from last week in The Times that Iran was going to retaliate to the “abduction” of top Iranian Generals from Turkey by grabbing some officers in the west. (hat tip: Pat Dollard) […]
March 25th, 2007 at 2:20 pm@Gramps
I don’t see what good it does our country to make speculative comments about the ‘lefts’. If you talk to most Americans, I think you will find that whether lefts or rights, they all support the troops, but 2/3 do not support the current governments decision on how the troops were deployed in Iraq. As you know, many top Generals asked for +250,000 troops to carry out operations in Iraq because they knew such a large force would be needed to encircle key insurgent strongholds. Then Rumsfeld fucked us all over by sending over much less. One wonders if Rumsfeld and his political team mates wanted a quick solution or a longer grind.
Godspeed to the troops.
March 27th, 2007 at 2:45 pmDam Ops blathers:
If you talk to most Americans, I think you will find that whether lefts or rights, they all support the troops, but 2/3 do not support the current governments decision on how the troops were deployed in Iraq.
I’m sick of hearing the left say they’re are against the war, but support the troops. That is just total BS! Tell me please, just how are YOU supporting the troops? Probably the same way that PEElosi & Reid are.
Do you visit the troops at military hospitals? VA hospitals? Do you go to the airport and welcome them home?
There are a couple of similarities between this war & Vietnam.
1. The G D anti war protesters.
2. The gutless politicians.
The last poll I recall had almost 70? NOT wanting a loss in Iraq. That’s one reason the the house has been so damn sneaky in their attempt to cut off the funds, and micro manage the war. The house is not the CIC.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pmDam Ops,
Here’s a video of the left supporting the troops….LOL
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/24/video-portland-protesters-serenade-troop-effigy-with-death-chants/
March 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pmDam Ops,
Here’s a couple more from this site. Yes sir, they really support the troops.
https://pat-dollard.com/index.php?s=anti+war+protest
March 27th, 2007 at 6:40 pm