Posted on 01/15/2007 3:31:45 PM PST by nuconvert
US Hunts 'Rogue' Agents
January 15, 2007
Sky News
The US will "go after" Iranian and Syrian agents which it says are operating in Iraq. US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the networks of agents were helping support the Sunni insurgency and Shi'ite death squads. Mr Khalilzad said the police would "change the behaviour" of Iran and Syria in what he said was a "defining moment" in the history of Iraq.
"We're going after their networks in Iraq," he told a news conference.
"We will target these networks in the ... expectation of changing the behaviour of these states."
The move follows the arrest in a US operation last week of five Iranians in northern Iraq.
The US said the men were Republican Guards supplying weapons to Shi'ite militants.
Iran said they were diplomats operating from an Iranian government office in Arbril and are demanding their release.
Iraq's foreign minister has also endorsed Iranian calls for their release.
Mr Khalilzad and the US commander in Iraq, General George Casey, denied there was any disagreement between Washington and Iraqi Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki over the detentions.
The US has accused Iran of supplying weapons to the Shi'ite militias that are destabilising Iraq.
It also accuses Syria of not doing enough to stop Sunni insurgents travelling in and out of Iraq through the Syrian border.
Well, it's not like that kinda stuff never happened in the U.S...
Yeah, it sad to see this affair in Iraq being so badly handled. The guys in White House have been playing too much Monopoly and getting it mixed up with the Iraq war.
The OP sure would enjoy the shock and awe of watching their facilities go up in flames.
But the article itself does not. Good Reporting. Editor has an agenda. (Sky News is the Brit counterpart to Fox, both are owned by Murdock.)
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