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BREAKING NEWS - Top Islamic Iran Strategist Captured in Iraq Raid
AntiMullah ^ | Friday Jan 12 | Alan Peters

Posted on 01/12/2007 12:55:17 AM PST by FARS

Friday, January 12, 2007 BREAKING NEWS - !!!

Reports from Tehran state that Iran's top IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) strategist, Hassan Abbasi, was captured in the recent raid on the Islamic Iran's office in Erbil, Iraq.

Referred to inside Islamic Iran as the Regime's version of Kissinger, Abbasi works directly as special advisor for the dead or dying Supreme Ruler in Iran - Ali Khamenei.

His attitude to the main competitor for the Supreme Leadership position, Hashemi Rafsanjani, as the telephone report elaborated, is "like a knife and cheese", meaning he hates Rafsanjani.

Abbasi has in the past indicated he has already chosen and set up attack capability on a large number of targets inside the USA and said the Islamic regime would wipe out the Western culture - as a whole - and replace it with Islam.

He also runs the "Freedom Organizations" an umbrella group, coordinating and networking every "anti-imperialism" terror group around the globe. Be it the IRA in Ireland or Japanese cults or Puerto Rican gangs in the USA. Anyone who is ready to disrupt their country and governments through acts of terrorism.

As the Islamic Regime's top tactician and strategist, his being found and caught in Iraq comes as little or no surprise when reorganization of the jihadists in Iraq has to be done to meet President Bush's new initiative.

In the past Abbasi was closely linked to the Islamic Regime's former MInister of Defense, Shamkhani and authored much of the plans to block the Persian Gulf as well as plans to insert the Ghods Brigades (Special Forces for overseas operations)into Iraq via the Basra area and the Northern Kurdish borders.

He has long established ties to the Kurds, who cooperate with him as part of the Freedoms Organizations in their quest for a Kurdish homeland.

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.

Pure, unfounded speculation: it could be a diversion to cover up or distract from Khamenei's death or even the "nuclear trigger" version of the explosion in the desert near Kerman.


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To: TheRightGuy
LOL (slaps forehead) OK then! ;^)

"This salsa was made in Tehran? Git a rope!"

61 posted on 01/12/2007 12:15:27 PM PST by TigersEye (If you don't understand the 2nd Amendment then you don't understand America.)
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To: TigersEye

I heard that one was let go already. But I may be wrong I just got the tail end of the news.


62 posted on 01/12/2007 2:47:28 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: pandoraou812

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.


63 posted on 01/12/2007 3:09:46 PM PST by TigersEye (If you don't understand the 2nd Amendment then you don't understand America.)
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To: TigersEye

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.


64 posted on 01/12/2007 3:35:01 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: FARS

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.


65 posted on 01/12/2007 4:53:12 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect you loved ones.)
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To: FARS

I'll read the entire thread but has he been released yet ?


66 posted on 01/12/2007 5:04:45 PM PST by Dov in Houston (Don't try to confuse me with facts. It's my way or the highway)
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To: Dov in Houston; All

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.


67 posted on 01/12/2007 6:07:34 PM PST by FARS
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To: FARS

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


68 posted on 01/12/2007 6:25:29 PM PST by Dov in Houston (Don't try to confuse me with facts. It's my way or the highway)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sadr and his cronies will be wearing panties on their heads soon.

In Hell.


69 posted on 01/13/2007 12:02:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("I've learned to live with not knowing." -- Richard Feynman https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: FARS

Table for one at Saddamn's Necktie Party!

Pray for W and Our Troops


70 posted on 01/13/2007 8:07:19 AM PST by bray (Redeploy to Iran)
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To: Dov in Houston; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; AdmSmith; Alamo-Girl; ...

Hello "Granny",

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71 posted on 01/13/2007 2:01:20 PM PST by FARS
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To: FARS

The Carpet-Kisser will Claim Diplomatic Immunity,... just you wait.


72 posted on 01/13/2007 2:04:43 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: kinoxi

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


73 posted on 01/13/2007 2:06:54 PM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: Valin

Thanks. Good news.


74 posted on 01/13/2007 2:09:34 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi
HORRAY FOR ME!
No self esteem problems here.
75 posted on 01/13/2007 2:14:59 PM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: FARS

COOL rack ittt


76 posted on 01/13/2007 3:01:40 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping. bttt


77 posted on 01/13/2007 3:03:44 PM PST by TigersEye (If you don't understand the 2nd Amendment you don't understand America.)
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To: SandRat; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; AdmSmith; Alamo-Girl; alaskamomma; ...

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.


78 posted on 01/13/2007 3:56:02 PM PST by FARS
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To: Valin; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; AdmSmith; Alamo-Girl; alaskamomma; ...

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


79 posted on 01/13/2007 4:04:17 PM PST by FARS
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To: FARS; nuconvert
Iraqi minister defends Iranian nuclear program 'Every country has right' to nuclear technology, Zebari says

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.

80 posted on 01/13/2007 4:16:32 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
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