Posted on 12/06/2010 6:53:06 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
A brief paragraph in the mountain of Wikileaks documents shed a sliver of light on what officials claim is a viscious and coldly efficient Iranian campaign of revenge on Iraqi air force pilots who bombed Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Many former Iraqi fighter pilots who flew sorties against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war were now on Iran's hit list (NOTE: According to [Name removed], Iran had already assassinated 180 Iraqi pilots. END NOTE)," the Dec. 14, 2009 confidential U.S. cable stated.
The systematic elimination of Iraqi air force pilots by Iran was a little noticed vendetta amid the crossfire of ethnic fighting and urban combat that convulsed Iraq in the years after the U.S. invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime.
Iran used the chaos in the aftermath of the invasion to settle scores from the Iran-Iraq war, an eight-year slug fest from 1980 to 1988 in which an estimated 500,000 Iranians and Iraqis died. The war was largely a bloody standoff that resembled World War I at times with trench warfare, poison gas, human wave and bayonet attacks.
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and the reason for that war was ? it’s spelled with an “N” no it’s spelled with a “Q”?
But gee, Iran never took revenge against the US for the Vincennes downing its Airbus....did it?
(crickets)
The Iran-Iraq War was multifaceted and included religious schisms, border disputes, and political differences. Conflicts contributing to the outbreak of hostilities ranged from centuries-old Sunni-versus-Shia and Arab-versus-Persian religious and ethnic disputes, to a personal animosity between Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini.
You are forgetting Iraq firing on the USS Stark
The Iranian extremists are just like the KGB, long memories and long knives.
At least they know how to fight the shadow war. We don’t even know it exits.
Calling Mr. Holder. Calling Mr. Holder.
It’s amazing Iran and Iraq could engage in such a brutal war with so many millions of global antiwar protestors filling the streets To say no to war.
Oh wait.
That never happened.
No need for the leak on this story. IIRC it was posted in the MSM over a year ago.
Most folks didn’t give it much thought.
One of those assassinations was bungled and the wrong guy was killed. Israel received massive condemnation for their actions; much of which came from the United States.
I'm sure that in their 180 assassinations that the Iranian secret police probably made many mistakes and caused deaths of innocent bystanders.
Our State Department evidently knew of these assassinations for several years....and yet nothing was ever said to publicly excoriate Iran - we seem to beat up our friends and coddle our enemies.
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