Posted on 03/14/2007 5:41:11 AM PDT by edpc
The London-based Arabic language newspaper A-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday that the Iranian army has lost contact with one of its high-ranking officers based in Iraq.
The report states that the officer, Mohammed Muhsayin Shiradi, from a unit in the Jerusalem Brigade, has not been in touch with his commanders for three weeks.
A senior source in the Iranian military told the newspaper that it is possible that Shiradi has been arrested by American forces.
Iran is already concerned by the disappearance last month of its former deputy defense minister, who vanished in Istabul. Tehran claims that Ali Reza Asghari has been abducted, and accused the United States and Israel of orchestrating his kidnap.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post last week cited a senior U.S. official as saying that Asghari had left his country and was willingly giving with Western intelligence agencies information on Hezbollah and Iranian ties to the group.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Iran's efforts to foment chaos in Iraq are primarily carried out by the Iranian intelligence service and the Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds (Jerusalem) Brigade, the foreign operations arm of the Iranian military, which also supports Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories.
I wonder if Shiradi's family is missing as well. They could be planning a reunion in Turkey, I hear it's all the rage these days.
Another intel victory for the good guys?
Cool, perhaps our intel folks can redeem themselves yet!
Anything is possible. He might be drunk in a brothel or abducted by aliens in a flying saucer.
Maybe this is the warning we need. If an Iranian bigshot sets foot outside Iran, he'll be snatched and waterboarded until he tells us what we need to know. Hajjis HATE the waterboard! It can turn a clam into a canary so fast Harry Potter would be jealous.
What is tempting these high-profiel Iranians away? Are we shelling out some well-spent millions here?
Sounds like we're finally beginning to put the screws to the Iranians. Good.
GRRRRRRREAT News!
Another satisfied customer of the Mossad Taxi Service!
More good news from the front.
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