Posted on 01/19/2007 7:38:32 AM PST by Valin
If the Iraqi government insists that we let these people go and there is intelligence that they are arming both sides of the conflict then it will appear to the Iraqi population that the government is indirectly assisting in the murders of civilians.
A no confidence builder I would say.
IRANIAN ARRESTED IN ERBIL IS WANTED IN AUSTRIA
AKI ^ | 1/17/07
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768870/posts
Posted on 01/17/2007 8:19:37 AM CST by Valin
Tehran, 17 Jan. (AKI) - One of the five Iranians arrested last week by the US army in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil is wanted in Austria in connection with the assassination of Kurdish leader Andol Rahman Ghassemlu in 1989. Mahommad Jaafari Sharoudi was one of five Iranian officials detained last week in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.
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