Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 6:56 p.m. EDT (22:56 GMT)
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, left, and his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshya Zebari
from a link by nuconvert.
More twists and turns than a nest of snakes.
Posted on 01/12/2007 12:55:17 AM PST by FARS
"This salsa was made in Tehran? Git a rope!"
I heard that one was let go already. But I may be wrong I just got the tail end of the news.
Sifting the truth out of news reports is a tricky and time consuming job as has been demonstrated with the many different reports we've seen on this today. Hopefully if anyone was released they were honestly not a threat. The big fish in Irbil was this Abbasi guy. Given his creds as reported in this article he should never see the light of day again.
I hope he never sees the light of day too. Planning attacks on this country and pushing Islam on the west....I don't EVER see me in a burka. I wouldn't mind seeing him with a noose around his neck though.
Was the attack on the US Embassy in Greece a retaliation for this capture? It fits the Freedom Organizations type of activity and no other recent event clearly warrants this attack. <<<
That was my first thoughts, also.
I'll read the entire thread but has he been released yet ?
One of the six who were captured HAS been released but my efforts to identify which one has so far been fruitless. I have some contacts working on this but may not be able to get an answer.
I hope I am wrong but my bet is. The State Department will be Politically Correct, and the POS is already back in Iran. I hope not, but I think it will happen
Sadr and his cronies will be wearing panties on their heads soon.
In Hell.
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The Carpet-Kisser will Claim Diplomatic Immunity,... just you wait.
American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/01/the_irbil_raid.html
January 12, 2007
The Irbil raid
Thomas Lifson
Yesterday, we cited a BBC report of a raid on an Iranian "consulate" in Irbil, Iraq. According to this subsequent AP report,
At the Pentagon, a senior U.S. military official said the building was not a consulate and did not have any diplomatic status. The six Iranians were taken in a "cordon-and-knock" operation, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Regime Change Iran cites Iran Press News reporting that an important "strategic guru" of President Ahmadinejad may have been captured in the Irbil raid.
Iran Press News reported that based on unconfirmed received reports from reliable sources in Iraq, Hassan Abbasi was among those who was arrested in the Thursday, January 11th early-morning raid in the Iraqi town of Erbil. An excerpt:
Abbasi has been among the highest ranking members of the Islamic regime's terror operations for many years, acting as Khamenei's foreign policy and defense advisor. Abbasi has had an active voice under not only Khamenei but also Rafsanjani and Khatami as well. The Martyrdom Brigades of the Global Islamic Awakening is controlled by Abbasi.
If true, this could be an intelligence breakthrough, with implications for the undeclared war underway with Iran since it seized our Tehran embassy.
Dafydd at Big Lizards points out the ludicrous position taken by Iran on the raid:
the Iranians are showing a great deal of restraint... the kind one shows when one has been caught with his hand in the milk bottle:
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told state-run radio the raid was "against a diplomatic mission" since the "presence of Iranian staffers in Irbil was legal." Hosseini claimed the action by coalition forces reflected a "continuation of pressure" on Iran, aiming to "create tension" between Iraq and its neighbors.
Note the tortured logic to imply what they seem wary of saying out loud, lest they be called up on to prove it: they do not actually claim that those in the building have "diplomatic immunity," but boy do they try to imply it! Evidently, any Iranian in Iraq legally is, therefore, on a "diplomatic mission." What does that say about those Iranians in Iraq illegally... such as those four we caught in December? We're still holding two of them; the other two actually did have diplomatic immunity -- which shows the Iranians are not shy about asserting it when they can prove their case.
And what about this minor incident? Do the Iranians think we've forgotten that we seized from Iraqi Shiite militia members a batch of Iranian-made weapons and munitions -- with a manufacturer's date of 2006?
Don't you love it that the people who seized our embassy, held our diplomats and others hostage and still have our former embassy under their control, now huff and puff about non-existent diplomatic status for their secret agents in Iraq?
Hat tip: Sally Vee
Thanks. Good news.
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Thanks for the ping. bttt
Hello Sandrat,
Right now there's a whole tiff in progress since the Kurds (quite illegally as they are not a sovereign nation and the decision rests with Baghdad) designated the raided location as a "diplomatic" site and now have egg all over their faces.
Specially as they continue to receive huge payments from Iran to allow contraband - from drugs to weapons - to pass through their border with Iran to Turkey, Syria and wherever else it needs to go. Like Hezbollah in Lebanon. Or drug rings in Europe.
Developing.
Since you are quoting attributions, RegimeChange also mentioned AntiMullah from which this post originated.
Take a look at:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2007/01/defense-foreign-affairs-special.html
That's a serious attribution using AntiMullah as a source.
good-on-ya and please pass to SallyV
Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 6:56 p.m. EDT (22:56 GMT)
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, left, and his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshya Zebari
from a link by nuconvert.
More twists and turns than a nest of snakes.
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