U.S. Poised To Strike “Al Quds In Iraq” Base In Iran
Times Online:
The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country.
Despite a belligerent stance by Vice-President Dick Cheney, the administration has put plans for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on the back burner since Robert Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary in 2006, the sources said.
However, US commanders are increasingly concerned by Iranian interference in Iraq and are determined that recent successes by joint Iraqi and US forces in the southern port city of Basra should not be reversed by the Quds Force.
“If the situation in Basra goes back to what it was like before, America is likely to blame Iran and carry out a surgical strike on a militant training camp across the border in Khuzestan,” said one source, referring to a frontier province.
They acknowledged Iran was unlikely to cease involvement in Iraq and that, however limited a US attack might be, the fighting could escalate.
Although American defence chiefs are firmly opposed to any attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, they believe a raid on one of the camps training Shi’ite militiamen would deliver a powerful message to Tehran.
British officials believe the US military tends to overestimate the effect of the Iranian involvement in Iraq.
But they say there is little doubt that the Revolutionary Guard exercises significant influence over splinter groups of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, who were the main targets of recent operations in Basra.
The CBS television network reported last week that plans were being drawn up for an attack on Iran, citing an officer who blamed the “increasingly hostile role” Iran was playing in Iraq.
The American news reports were unclear about the precise target of such an action and referred to Iran’s nuclear facilities as the likely objective.
According to the intelligence sources there will not be an attack on Iran’s nuclear capacity. “The Pentagon is not keen on that at all. If an attack happens it will be on a training camp to send a clear message to Iran not to interfere.”
President George W Bush is known to be determined that he should not hand over what he sees as “the Iran problem” to his successor. A limited attack on a training camp may give an impression of tough action, while at the same time being something that both Gates and the US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, could accept.
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They should have started this article with “The Ouija board says…” or “after six shots of tequilla and couple of bowls we have decided…”
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:58 pmI’m thinkin’ they might be doing a bit of speculating here.
You think maybe the Iranians are reading this, Ya think?
Why don’t we give them a date so they can get all of there valuable shit out of the camp before we hit em’
The old saying in the Navy is When the crew stops bitching, watch out… Stop talking
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 pmI really want to see action. Iran needs to be bombed now! Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb IRAN.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pmIt is just sick to let these people kill our heroes and do nothing. It is pay back time.
Every day we do not bomb Iran the more of our soldiers will be killed and the closer they will get to obtaining a nuke.
Why put off till tomorrow what one can do today?
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm(Very old words of wisdom. So pay attention to this saying and use the saying.)
Time to kill 10 Persians Puffs for every one American death in Iraq.
When’s all the speculation going to end and the attacks begin? Where’s the beef?
Enough talk. Let’s see some action. Hit em high hit em low. No mercy. Time for some payback for the lives that they took and keep on taking.
Hitting Al Quds ain’t enough. These people are insane. We need to crush them.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 pmWhatever our military can do to hurt Iran, right on. However, what I really like is how much it would anger the US leftists. Ha ha ha. I love making them mad.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pmSOC
I was thinking the same thing. Sheesh.. just email them the whole damned plan.
May 4th, 2008 at 8:31 amEli said it best. If you’re going to talk, talk. If you’re going to shoot, shoot; don’t talk.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:51 amWhen their nuclear facilities get close enough to their goal that they become an imminent threat, Israel will do what they did to the Syrians
They will not talk too much about it. One day we’ll see the news and know. Then we’ll talk about it afterwards. I always enjoy those conversations better than the ifs.
I’d like to see their training camps bombed during prayer time so they can all be together in one spot. It would help
May 4th, 2008 at 11:35 amPull the Iran plug and 50% of the poison in the ME drains away.
Pull the Saudi plug and another 20% goes.
And then there’s Pakistan and its FATA.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pmEhud Barak is already planing it
and making sure the US and UK are going to back Israel up. According to this article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3867880.ece
I just liked this at the end:
May 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pm“We’re doing a lot of things about Iran,” Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, said last week. “We say we shouldn’t rule out any option. Not ruling out options means action, but the worst thing to do at the moment is to talk [about it].”
Dan “The Infidel” You remind me of Curtis LeMay and I mean that as a big compliment. I agree, if we do nothing then we will have innocent blood on our hands. Something the “peace” protestors will never understand.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:39 am