Posted on 01/27/2007 7:27:15 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top Iranian lawmaker denounced the United States on Saturday for allowing its troops to kill or capture Iranians in Iraq whom U.S. forces believe pose a threat.
"This is support for terrorism. It is against all recognized international treaties to order the death of nationals of another country in a foreign land," Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of Parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, said on state television.
On Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said U.S. forces "are authorized to go after those who are trying to kill them."
The more aggressive policy - evolving over a period of months - was described as the result of mounting evidence that Iran is supporting terrorists inside Iraq and is a major supplier of bombs and other weapons used to target U.S. forces.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told journalists Saturday that "bullying and threatening" were part of the U.S. strategy in Iraq and said Iran was a "part of resolving Iraq's problems, not a part of the problem itself."
At least eight Iranians have been detained in Iraq recently, including two diplomats in a Dec. 21 roundup. They were interrogated and released to Iranian officials eight days later.
The six others were captured Jan. 11 at an Iranian liaison office in the northern city of Irbil. One was released and five are still believed in U.S. custody.
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said last week that one of the detained Iranians was the director of operations for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Quds faction, the organization responsible for funding and arming Iraqi militants.
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Just unreal....
aw dats toooo bad
Hey, Iran, tell your boys to take refuge in an embassy. We have a favor to repay you.
Yep. Some accounts need squaring, and they’d better learn to deal with it.
P*ss Be Unto The As*lifting Filth..
Life's a bitch, then you die
Too F'n bad. Iran
Siniora accuses Iran of waging proxy war on U.S. in Lebanon
Sunday, 28 January, 2007 @ 5:26 AM
Beirut- Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has told the German weekly magazine "Focus" he believes Iran is using Lebanese soil to fight the United States.
He also said that Iran and Syria are conducting a "coup" against his government, since they have provided arms to Lebanon's Hezbollah party.
Siniora told "Focus" that the "Iranians say they want to defeat the U.S." and demanded that Lebanon not be used as the battlefield.
Deadly violence in Lebanon, following a call by the Shi'ite Hezbollah for a general strike on January 23 to pressure the government, has renewed fears that the country could slide into civil war like the conflict that devastated it in 1975-90.
A Hezbollah -organized sit-in outside Siniora's downtown offices is nearing the start of its third month.
Hezbollah is demanding that Siniora give it one-third of the seats in his cabinet ( Plus 1 for veto power ) and call early elections.
Picture: Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora (left) with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad at a meeting in December 2005
Sources: Radio Free Europe
http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/01/siniora_accuses.php
I think Bush is trying to have Iran do something major first (which is nothing wrong imho), then we can bomb then...
What about Khomeini's fatwa against Salmon Rushdie (Indian) in a foreign land (UK)? What about the bombing, by Revolutionary Guard agents, of the Jewish Cultural Affairs Center in Argentina (for which an international arrest warrant has been issued that cites, among others, former Iranian President Rafsanjani)?
Our of our diplomats should ask about the points you raise.....yeah that's the ticket.
Then pull your nasties out of Iraq........
Some more - what about the 1983 bombing, in Lebanon, by Iranian agents, of the American embassy? The French embassy? 240+ U.S. Marines? The hijacking of a TWA airliner during which a U.S. Navy man was brutally tortured and murdered? The kidnapping, in Beirut, of CIA station chief William Buckley, after which he was tortured and murdered in the most brutal way possible? Or Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins who was kidnapped in Beirut and suffered a similar fate?
Too bad our diplomats are too mealy-mouthed to bring this up.
It's about time. But remember that even if we are going to seriously start killing Iranian agents in Iraq, that only puts us as far along as the situation during much of the Vietnam War, where we'd kill NVA and Communists in South Vietnam, but give them a free pass in North Vietnam and other countries bordering South Vietnam, until they crossed the border. No more safe havens. Iran has been at war with us since 1979, and it's time we started to behave as if we knew it, especially as it's war now, or nuclear war later.
I knew the Washington Nationals werehaving a caravan, but what are they doing in Iraq?
Iran Condemns US “Kidnapping” of Its “Diplomats”
Iran has accused US troops of kidnapping five of its diplomats who were arrested in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. The US has denied the men were diplomats -- it says the men were members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and were in Iraq illegally supplying weapons to Shia insurgents.
Hassan Kazimi Qomi, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, called the arrests “a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and an insult to the Iraqi people.” He said the “kidnapped” men were engaged in legitimate tasks. “These men are part of the armed, plain-clothes section of the Iranian diplomatic corps,” Qomi asserted. “Our diplomats are not fops who sit around drinking tea with the pompous prigs other nations send to represent them. They roll up their sleeves and get down to work, people-to-people, helping them get what they need.”
Qomi defended the diplomats’ distribution of weapons. “As anyone can see, Iraq is a violent place,” Qomi observed. “When our Muslim brothers beg for our help, would you have us turn them down?”
Qomi demanded the men’s release and the return of the weapons seized. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) concurred, calling the incident “another chapter in the big book of American war crimes in the so-called war on terror.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
He seems to overlaid his little slice of the disk with new stuff...
JOHN SEMMENS: Semi-News
Dems Vow a 'U-Turn' for America
July 28, 2006
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July 28, 2006
Democrats plan to use a “u-turn” theme in their final push to wrest power from the Republicans in the November elections. “It’s perfect,” said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. “Polls show a majority of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Our ‘u-turn’ message can be anything the voter wants it to be. It’s every direction other than the one we’re going now.”
Reid’s counterpart in the House, Nancy Pelosi of California, said Democrats offer change. “Americans know the country is going in the wrong direction,” she said. “Our promise of unspecified ‘change’ can’t be topped by anything the Republicans have to offer.”
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean crowed over his party’s ingenious ploy. “The Republican appeal is limited to hard-working people willing to bear the burden of supporting themselves and fighting the war on terror,” said Dean. “Our message is one of relief from these oppressive responsibilities. Whatever the voters think is bad about their lives, our ‘u-turn’ slogan says a vote for Democrats will fix it.”
In related news, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the Mexican race for president to conservative rival Felipe Calderon, has proclaimed himself emperor of the world. “It is the will of the people of Earth that I become their emperor,” Lopez Obrador told Univision’s “Here and Now” television show.
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