Posted on 06/08/2009 11:06:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The US military has released a senior member of a deadly terror group backed by Iran that has been directly implicated in the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in during a complex operating in early 2007.
Laith al Qazali was freed last weekend "as part of a reconciliation effort" as well as an attempt to secure the release of captive British hostages, according to a report in The New York Times.
Laith is the brother of Qais Qazali, the commander of the Qazali network which better known as the Asaib al Haq or the League of the Righteous. Qais Qazali was a spokesperson and senior aide to Mahdi Army leader Muqtada al Sadr. The terror group, which was part of the Mahdi Army until the spring of 2008, has received extensive financial and military support from Iran's Qods Force, the external division that backs Hezbollah and is tasked with supporting the Khomeinist Islamist revolution.
The League of the Righteous was directly implicated by General David Petraeus as being behind the January 2007 attack on the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala as well as other high-profile terror attacks in Iraq. Five US soldiers were killed during the Karbala attack and subsequent kidnapping attempt. The US soldiers were executed after US and Iraqi security forces closed in on the assault team.
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Perfect time to hit the news reel ...at...umm, let’s see, 1:15 in the morning.
Obama would do well to remember that when dealing with terrorists.
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American military officials say the group has been supported by Iran. The organization is also believed to hold five British hostages: a computer consultant and his four bodyguards. They were kidnapped from the Iraqi Finance Ministry.
Doesn't say when they were kidnapped....
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On May 29, 2007, about two months after the Americans’ capture of the Khazali brothers, the five British citizens were kidnapped. The attack at the Finance Ministry, like the Karbala attack, was meticulously planned, using men wearing Iraqi police uniforms.
It would be fitting that the person responsible for letting this terrorist go free be murdered by terrorists himself.
“It would be fitting that the person responsible for letting this terrorist go free be murdered by terrorists himself.”
From your mouth to God’s ears...
It seems everyday our troops are betrayed by their political “leaders.”
So this guys walks free and based on what I see here the British Soldier still is held captive. Sounds like the kind of negotiations one would expect from the zero team.
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