Yes, there has been a good deal of talk about Iranian agents in Iraq stirring up trouble, mostly in connection with earlier Shiite troubles, but this is the most detailed report I have seen.
It looks as if US News & World Report has decided to lend itself to the war effort, at least with this article. It provides a pretty good basis for regime change, despite what Colin Powell said today.
Solution?
If anyone bothers to read Yossef Bodansky's book, "Bin Laden", which was published in 1999 -- BEFORE the Sept 11 attacks -- they would realize that Iran is the MAIN ENEMY behind all this Islamist terrorism. And it is quite clear from that book that only thru regime change in Tehran can we change (temporarily win) the medium term situation. Bin Laden, Iraq, Sudan, PLO, Pakistan and Syria are subordinate intermediaries in the Islamist campaign. Complete victory will require the West to CONQUER the countries from India to the Mediterranean to the Atlantic (north Africa). But even here this is only the medium term solution (30 - 60 years) because the Iranian regime is a communist controlled front. Anatoliy Golitsyn's book, "The Perestroika Deception," explains the change in communist strategy from frontal assault to a flanking assault under cover of Islamist nationalism.
I thought Bush understood this and that the invasion of Iraq was just the first step in the right direction. But now it is clear to me that the Bushies didn't and don't understand the TRUE strategic threat -- the new distributed-network structure of the COMINTERN successor communist party (read Wallace H. Spaulding's book, "Is the COMINTERN Coming Back?").
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If there are funding the terrorists to kill our troops we should do some paybacks.
Bush said all terrorists and the regimes which support them.
My concern is with this bit:
Some of the most important information on Iran has been provided by an Iranian exile group, the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq. The MEK fled Iran after the 1979 revolution and later relocated with Saddam's support to Iraq, where it continued to advocate the overthrow of the Iranian clerical regime. U.S. forces now are guarding its 3,800 members at Camp Ashraf, the MEK's sprawling compound northeast of Baghdad. Designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, the MEK nevertheless has provided American officials with significant intelligence on Iran's nuclear weapons programs. The MEK, wrote one Army analyst, is "quite proficient at intelligence collection."
The MEK is a sort of terrorist cult group, and is quite proficient at lying. If they are a source of intelligence about Iran, then they will mess everything up. They are even more unreliable than the Iraqi exiles, with their wild talk.
Big bump.