Ahmadinejad stormtroopers in Iraq ...("surge" started in December ..Excellent Article)

American Thinker ^ | January 25, 2007 | James Lewis

[IrishMike]

While the MSM and Democrats are too busy gazing at their navels to figure out the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, things are moving very fast in Iraq. The famous "surge" started in December, a month before it was announced in public, and it is having concrete results. A battle has taken place in Baghdad's infamous Haifa Street, which used to be bandit territory. The challenge is to hold that territory.

El Sadr's Mahdi Army is offering a cease fire and negotiations for fear of an American-Iraq Army assault. The challenge is how to tie Muqtada el Sadr's hands by a combination of political/economic incentives and the threat of total destruction if he goes back to the armed option. Al Qaida is said to have retreated from Baghdad tactically, and is reported reported to be fighting in isolation from Sunni and Shiite death squads. All this is good news; but the challenge is to hold, hold, hold. That is up to the Iraq Army, stiffened by American soldiers and political resolve.

The most significant new development is the arrest in Iraq of the operational director of Ahmadinejad's storm trooper (Al Quds) brigade.

If the MSM were doing its job, this would be big headline news. First, the Al Quds brigade is Ahmadinejad's own unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which he helped grow in order to conduct terrorist operations abroad, in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and even Mecca.

They are the SS stormtroopers of the Islamic revolution.

The idea that a top officer of the Quds brigade would be caught with his pants down in Iraq is simply astonishing. It tears the veil from all the Iranian denials of direct involvement in arming and funding Iraqi death squads.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend - for now.

[IrishMike]

American firmness of purpose will make all the difference. It's do or die.

[EternalHope]

From the article:
The challenge is how to tie Muqtada el Sadr's hands by a combination of political/economic incentives and the threat of total destruction if he goes back to the armed option.

Uh... NO.

The challenge is to kill Sadr, utterly destroy his Mahdi Army, and send a message to the others that the same fate awaits them if they follow Sadr's path.

We should have done this a long time ago.

[tcrlaf]

"If the MSM were doing its job, this would be big headline news"

The MSM IS doing thier job, they are ignoring it...

This might be percieved as "Helping Bush", and no media wonk worth thier salt is willing to incur the wrath of Hillary....

[IrishMike]

MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.
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My tag line.

[vin-one]

Amen brother....

[TXnMA]

"The challenge is to kill Sadr, utterly destroy his Mahdi Army, and send a message to the others that the same fate awaits them if they follow Sadr's path."

"We should have done this a long time ago."

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I couldn't agree more!

[FixitGuy]

"American firmness of purpose will make all the difference. It's do or die."

Yep! We're missing a golden opportunity if we don't say,"Anyone in Iraq who commits a disruptive act, (IED, Murder, bomb of any kind) be he Sunni, Shiite, Christian, Jew, Jehovah's Witness, Scientologist or WHATEVER will be shot on sight!"

Anyone who hides or funds or trains such a perp will suffer the same fate.

No more politically correct war!

[Psalm 73]

Could have been done from a mile+ away - one minute he would be standing there with his peeps, the next minute his head would explode, and during the hub-hub aftermath they would not hear the round go off.
Hmm, could have been anybody - no reason to suspect a Marine sniper........

[MARTIAL MONK]

Instead of killing him before, we (according to at least one article posted here) paid him $14 million to stand down. He just didn't stay bought.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The press is the propaganda arm of the American left and they have an agenda...see this:

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

[iopscusa]

Anyone know where are the IRANIAN captives from Irbil???

[Thombo2]

Great book-highly reccomend:)

[nuconvert]

I read a report just today that the Iranians are still demanding they be returned, so I guess they aren't in Iran.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The idea that a top officer of the Quds brigade would be caught with his pants down in Iraq is simply astonishing. It tears the veil from all the Iranian denials of direct involvement in arming and funding Iraqi death squads.

But the US Senate wants to believe those denials so badly.

It's just not fair. ;)

[WashingtonSource]

No wonder Bush was smiling so much at the State of the Union address. He was confident that surge was already working and that the pantywaists in Congress would soon have the legs cut off at the knees for their anti-Administration poses and votes.

[woofie]

bump for later

[traderrob6]

Some are reporting it....

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-envoy-says-quds-force-operations.html

[ANGGAPO]

The challenge is how to tie Muqtada el Sadr's hands by a combination of political/economic incentives and the threat of total destruction if he goes back to the armed option.

Considering that this guy can lie through his teeth, why can't we just kill him and move on?

[ANGGAPO]

The challenge is how to tie Muqtada el Sadr's hands by a combination of political/economic incentives and the threat of total destruction if he goes back to the armed option.

Considering that this guy can lie through his teeth, why can't we just kill him and move on?

[isthisnickcool]

Let our people loose do do what is necessary.