Tehran's Blood-soaked Hands

Washington Times ^ | July 11, 2007

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Tehran's Blood-soaked Hands

July 11, 2007

The Washington Times

As American and Iraqi casualties mount, U.S. military commanders have become increasingly willing to criticize Tehran's role in fueling the violence in Iraq — something senators would do well to bear in mind this week while going on about the need to withdraw or "redeploy" American troops there. According to Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, Tehran had a direct role in a Jan. 20 attack on the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center in which five American soldiers were killed — four of them murdered after being abducted by Iranian-backed radicals who wore American-style uniforms and carried forged identity cards.

Gen. Bergner revealed at a July 2 press conference that Tehran's terrorist proxy, the Lebanese group Hezbollah, is involved in organizing and training Iraqi jihadists called Special Groups who attack American soldiers in Iraq. He added that the Quds Force, a special unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that specializes in financing and arming terrorist movements, is spending up to $3 million per month to bring groups of up to 60 Iraqi insurgents at a time to three training facilities near Tehran. At those camps, jointly operated by the Quds Force and Hezbollah, they are taught how to carry out bombings and kidnappings and use rockets, mortars and improvised explosive devices to kill and maim American troops.

In March, coalition forces in Iraq captured Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Hezbollah explosives specialist, near Basra. Initially Mr. Daqduq pretended to be a deaf mute, but he began to talk when he realized that his captors had learned his identity: A 24-year veteran of Hezbollah, he had commanded a special operations unit and headed Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah's security detail. In May 2006, he traveled to Tehran to meet with senior Quds Force officials

[SkyPilot]

I watched a videotape of the torture and murder of people in Iran by stoning.

Witnessing the barbarity and the brutality, and seeing the delight of the crowd by the carnage, I became convinced that Lucifer roams that land with abandon.

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pong

[Valin]

We know where the camps are, we know where the factories are that are building the bombs...might be time for my friend Mr. B-2.
How do you deal with a bully? You smack him in the nose.

I don’t blame the government of Iran for doing this. It’s not like they’re paying a price, so why shouldn’t they continue.

[Obadiah]

...I became convinced that Lucifer roams that land with abandon.

Indeed.

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“I don’t blame the government of Iran for doing this. It’s not like they’re paying a price, so why shouldn’t they continue.”

Exactly.
I was talking with someone earlier who asked why Iran doesn’t lay low and stop making waves and pretend to be cooperating more. My response was: why should they? They’re enjoying doing it this way and getting away with it. They can do it the other way when they feel they’re forced to. That’s the way they’ve always handled things.