Posted on 07/01/2007 8:27:21 PM PDT by RDTF
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A top special operations officer from Lebanon's Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah has been captured in Iraq, where U.S. officials say he played a key role in a January attack that killed five Americans.
Ali Mussa Daqduq, an explosives expert, was captured in March in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where he was helping train and lead Shiite militias fighting coalition troops, U.S. intelligence officials told CNN.
Daqduq pretended to be deaf and mute when captured, and his identity was not known for weeks, the officials said.
Once uncovered, however, they said he began to talk, and they now believe he played a crucial role in the January 20 attack in Karbala.
Hezbollah fought Israeli troops in a month-long war in southern Lebanon in 2006, a conflict sparked by a cross-border raid in which Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and took two others captive. The conflict ended with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire, and the Israeli soldiers remained captive when the fighting ended.
Intelligence officials say Daqduq is one of Hezbollah's top special operations commanders, an expert in the use of roadside bombs. The Americans say he, along with the Iraqi militia commanders he worked with, has admitted working with Iran's elite Quds Force special operations unit.
U.S. commanders have said for months that Iraqi militants have been receiving weapons and training from members of the Quds Force, an element of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Washington has demanded the Iranian government stop the flow of arms and militants across its border -- which, along with the diplomatic standoff over Iran's nuclear fuel program, has raised fears of a wider war in the region.
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shocking.../s
So basically we are in an unofficial war with the Syrians and Iranians...and the powers that are backing them.
“Once uncovered, however, they said he began to talk, and they now believe he played a crucial role in the January 20 attack in Karbala.”
maybe he lost a few fingernails in that process
You can demand all you want from the enemy but until you are ready to kick their asses with overwhelming force, nothing will happen.
These guys talk when they snort a little water head down.
ping to Iran connection
And what has Bush done in response to this?
Nothing.
If this happened while Bill was President we’d be all over him.
When Bush wonders why his poll numbers are in the toilet and why his Presidency is basically finished it’s because he lets the Iranians and Hezbollah walk all over us with impunity.
The same guy who vowed to get Osama “dead or alive” is letting Khameini and Ahmadinejad kill our people with no repurcussions other than having Condi bend over backwards to make nice with the EU and let the Iranians string out their program until it’s too late.
Bush is fast becoming an embarrasment.
No one in the media or in the administration will say it, but it’s becoming more and more obvious: IT’S ALL THE SAME WAR.
I don’t care anymore.
Israel just kicked off their first season of the Israel Baseball League, I was fortunate to watch their opening day game. It was enjoyable and productive.
www.israelbaseballleague.com
Meanwhile, in Palestine...
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1183053066461&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
everything they touch decays.
I know this -- a number of Iranian clerics have started getting assassinated in the last few months.
Could you ever imagine your (or the MSM) aren't aware of everything that is going on....within this WOT?
Or else he got the full “comfy chair” treatment...
Roger that!
As though he'd advertise what he's doing.
Why let the Iranian gov't know thru CNN, Fox, CBS, etc?
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