“An Operative Sent Here To Fuel The Violence”
What’s particulary interesting about all this, is that the Iraqi Government agrees with the Iranians. From Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, Multi-National Force - Iraq spokesman’s official statement today:
Qods Force Capture
We are also continuing to learn a significant amount about the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force officer who was detained here on
September 20th.
• As you know, the detainee was posing as a businessman with an
Iranian trade delegation using the name Agha Farhadi. In reality, he
is an officer in the Qods Force, and his name is Mahmud Farhadi.
• Farhadi was the officer-in-charge of the Zafr Command, one of three
units subordinate to the Ramazan Corps of the Qods Force. This
Corps is responsible for most of the Qods Force operations in Iraq.
• As the Zafr Commander, he was responsible for all Qods Force
operations in north-central Iraq that included cross-border transfers of
weapons, people and money.
• Multiple sources implicate Farhadi in providing weapons to Iraqi
criminal elements and surrogates of Iran.
• We also know that for more than a decade, he was involved in Iranian
intelligence operations in Iraq.
Iran
As we have said before, we would prefer to be able to report on Iran’s
excellence in fulfilling their public commitments to the Government of Iraq –
commitments to help secure their common border, eliminate the smuggling
of weapons, and to cease the movement of trained terrorists into Iraq.
Such an effort could do much to improve the security for the Iraqi people
and would be welcomed by everyone in Iraq.
Instead, we see Iran imposing economic hardship on the people of Iraq
during Ramadan by closing their border in protest over the detention of a
Quds Force Officer, an operative sent here to fuel the violence and who
they continue to maintain is a businessman.
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“…. they continue to maintain is a businessman.”
well he is a “businessman”… a merchant of death.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:20 pmLie just like the left wing nuts. You can’t them apart from their actions.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:01 pmIraqis don’t like Persians. Remember what Saddam used to say about them. Hell, no wonder al-Maliki is not well liked by many Iraqis…the man’s a fucking empty suit.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:21 pm