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12 Iranian Intelligence Agents Arrested in Baghdad (whoops!)
Geostrategy Direct Backgrounder and Baghdad 'New Era' Newspaper ^
| Week of Sept. 9, 2003
| Bill Gertz
Posted on 09/03/2003 6:38:33 AM PDT by prarie earth
Iraqi security personnel have arrested 12 Iranian Intelligence agents in Iraq. The Iranians were preparing to conduct bombing attacks in Baghdad, the Arabic newspaper Al-Ahd al-Jadid, or 'The New Era,' reported.
The Baghdad newspaper calls itself a 'democratic, liberal independent' newsweekly whose editor is Abd-al-Basit al-Naqqash.
The director of security patrols in the Al-Sulihiyah district of Baghdad arrested the Iranians at the offices of the Al Mashriq Money Exchange Company, the newspaper reported.
The Iranians were carrying counterfeit dollars and hotel bankcards. They also had visitor cards identifying them as with the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Vehicle Trading Company.
While Al Qaeda terrorists and pro-Saddam Iraqis are key suspects,United States Intelligence officials have not ruled out the possibility that Iranian Intelligence was behind the August 29th bombing of a mosque in Najaf that killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, a leading moderate Shiite who headed the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arrest; axisofevil; baghdad; geostrategy; intelservice; iran; iraq
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The Axis of Evil is uncovered again..
To: prarie earth
Let the public executions begin!
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:40:07 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: prarie earth
Hope were setting up moves into Iran and Syria.
To: DoctorZIn
PING.
To: Blood of Tyrants
To: prarie earth
Smite the jihadists wherever they are to be found..
To: prarie earth
12 Iranian Intelligence Agents Arrested in Baghdad (whoops!)
"Silly us...we were looking for ALBURQUERQUE not Al-Sulihiyah...Please to forgive our mistake"
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:47:34 AM PDT
by
jaz.357
(The beatings will continue until morale improves!)
To: prarie earth
Well, well,
well! Looks like we got ourselves some evidence here. I don't even want to imagine what the interrogations for these guys are going to be like.
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:50:42 AM PDT
by
Imal
(The World According to Imal: http://imal.blogspot.com)
To: jaz.357
Those are not fake bankcards and counterfit US currency..we were saving them after they had been given to us by brother Ahmed!
To: prarie earth
Excellent! Let the torturing, um, I mean questioning, begin.
10
posted on
09/03/2003 6:53:02 AM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: prarie earth
Anything to keep Saudi Intelligenc 'out' of the total picture!!
Radar off!
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posted on
09/03/2003 6:56:33 AM PDT
by
maestro
To: prarie earth
This needs to be publicized enormously in Iraq. If Iraqis know Iranians are the ones doing the bombing and trying to destabilize their country, they will leap out of their skins to help the US rebuild their country.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:00:02 AM PDT
by
rintense
To: Peach
Sodium pentathol for everyone!
To: maestro
Interesting article in the newsweeklies over the weekend about the Saudi Royal who owned 'Empire Maker' the Belmont Stakes winner..
To: prarie earth
The axis of evil indeed.
15
posted on
09/03/2003 7:05:24 AM PDT
by
finnman69
( !)
To: prarie earth
Lies! All lies I told by the evil occupying oppressors of the peace loving people of Iraq.
There are no Iranians agents in Baghdad!
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:07:01 AM PDT
by
WestPacSailor
(Sorry folks, this tagline's closed. The moose out front should of told you.)
To: prarie earth
"New Era Newspaper?" I read somewhere that there are 6,000 daily newspapers on the streets of Baghdad. Most are just xerox copies.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:08:18 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Dog; Miss Marple
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Vehicle Trading Company.LOL! Like their ancestors traded camels??
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:11:37 AM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(Is Reality Optional?)
To: Semper Paratus
If the Iranians and Syrians have to go home to protect their homes, the Iraqis will be free to rebuild theirs.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:11:38 AM PDT
by
AMNZ
To: prarie earth
Sodium pentathol for everyone! Can I have some? I really like sodium pentathol. And that's the honest truth.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:11:54 AM PDT
by
WestPacSailor
(Sorry folks, this tagline's closed. The moose out front should of told you.)
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