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Posted on 03/22/2007 3:22:48 PM PDT by ikez78
U.S. forces have arrested the two leaders of the network believed responsible for the brazen raid in Karbala by terrorists disguised as Americans, in which five U.S. soldiers were kidnapped and later killed in January, U.S. military officials said today.
In operations over the past several days in Basra and Hillah, coalition forces captured Qais Khazali, his brother Laith Khazali and several other members of the Khazali network, a splinter faction of the Mahdi army.
Senior U.S. military sources tell ABC News that hard evidence linking the Khazalis to the Karbala raid, including the ID cards of several of the dead American soldiers, was recovered at the scene.
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The coalition also found evidence linking the men to Iran and to an arms smuggling operation that included the high impact Explosively Formed Projectiles, or EFPs, according to U.S. officials.
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Get some, even if it is 27 1/2 years too late...
Assembling the fighting force to prevent a disaster would require a massive build-up in the region, something that the U.S. cannot do without tripping the caution light to the Iranians.
Put simply, a narrow attack on Iranian installations could result in a catastrophe without enough contengencies in place. Such contengencies would be obvious to the media hounds, thus tipping off the Iranians. Bottom line, we haven't seen such a build-up yet. Thus I don't see it happening.
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Death is calling sooner or later we will have to go after Iran and Syria what in the world are we waiting for.We are going to find out if Iran has nukes when they shove one up our A$$ , fight now and win or fight later and die.
I think the point was they WERE new and not leftovers from 1985.
Why in the world are we not blasting the heck out of these countries while they kill our soldiers?? This is pure war, we have jets sitting around, ships floating somewhere let's use all of our resources! This is crazy!
Give her one too..
The Shiite insurgent leaders who were arrested this week and believed to be behind the murder of 5 US soldiers trained in Iran and was once the chief spokesman for Al-Sadr.
The Military Times has more on the brothers and their followers:
Qais Al-Khaazli is a cleric in his early 30s. The tall and slender man was a close al-Sadr aide in 2003 and 2004. He was al-Sadr's chief spokesman for most of 2004 and made nearly daily appearances on Arabic satellite news channels. He has not been seen in public since late that year.
Outspoken and uncompromisingly anti-American, al-Khazaali was a savvy spokesman, who went out of his way to accommodate the scores of Western and Arab reporters that covered the fighting in the summer of 2004 in the holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad.
When al-Sadr stood to deliver the Friday sermon in a mosque in Kufa, Najaf's twin city, in the months leading up to the Najaf battles, a stern faced al-Khazaali stood motionless to the right of his leader. Both wore white shrouds over their clerical robes, suggesting their readiness for martyrdom.
In the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, al-Khazaali led groups of young clerics loyal to al-Sadr who protected his native Sadr City, the teeming Shiite district in eastern Baghdad, against looters and worked to restore basic services.
In Washington Wednesday, a Pentagon official who declined to be identified because of the information's sensitivity, confirmed that some gunmen had gone to Iran for training and that al-Khazaali has a following. However, the official could not confirm the number of his followers or whether Iran was financing them.
The two Mahdi Army commanders blamed several recent attacks on U.S. forces in eastern Baghdad on the splinter group they said was led by al-Khazaali. They also said they believed the breakaway force had organized the attempt last week to kill Rahim al-Darraji, Sadr City's mayor.
Al-Darraji, who is close to the Sadrist movement, was involved in talks with the U.S. military about extending the five-week-old Baghdad security sweep into Sadr City, the Mahdi Army stronghold in eastern Baghdad that was a no-go zone for American forces until about three weeks ago.
Al-Darraji was seriously wounded and two of his bodyguards were killed.
More from Gateway Pundit, at link below.
I would strap them down securely and set up a live video feed and do a complete blood transfer from a nice lovely live hog.
And then remove their penis and surgically graft one from a pig, a small one mind you.
Remove the nose and ears and likewise graft same from a pig.
Force feed them liquified pork and then sew close their anus.
And then leave them at Mecca.
"So what does this mean to Iran or Syria."
Spitballs.
I swear, it's like Kerry had won!
It means,
You're either with us, or...or, uh,...or, or we're going to talk about you in really...uh, in really unflattering ways, and, uh, and we might even raise our voices, too; you never know. So, THERE! THPTHPTHPTHPTHP!"
The quality of discourse on Free Republic has begun to deteriorate. Do you have anything to contribute on an adult level?
U.S. forces have arrested the two leaders of the network believed responsible for the brazen raid in Karbala by terrorists disguised as Americans
Public execution on Iraqi TV.
Every terrorist captured or killed should have their body immersed in liquid (but, not too hot...) bacon grease. Let the whole world know and the number of terrorists will decline greatly.
It's far worse than that. The deterioration here is reflective of the permeation into conservative ranks of a national-level deterioration of discourse that has been going on for about 35 years, now. The nature of this deterioration goes beyond the simple degradation in language skills; it impacts the very core of what people mean when they speak, up to and including the President of the United States. With whom is my beef.
On 9/12/2001, President Bush articulated a very strong foreign policy stance relating to international terror; asserting that the entire international community was under a new mandate to decide where to make a stand: either with or against terrorists. The explicitly stated response to those two positions was clear: side with us against terrorists, or we will regard you, yourselves, as terrorists and treat you as we would treat them.
As we have since discovered, this tough talk didn't exactly come backed up by the kind of tough action that is required to make the words stick. Oh, sure, we went and destroyed some terrorist groups in various quarters of the globe, but that's a far cry from actualizing the strong language of 9/12. There's an irreconcilable disparity between going head-to-head with select bands of well-funded islamofascist gangs out on the backside of some Third World sandhill and going hard-eyed, and nose to nose with bellicose leaders of terrorist-supporting nation states like Iran and Syria. The former action is a simple exercise of our military capabilities; the latter requires the actual existence of a resolute commitment to the stated doctrine. We've seen plenty of the first, but precious little -- almost none, to be exact -- of the second, despite there having been ample opportunity given for us to demonstrate that President Bush really DID mean exactly what he said.
Instead, repeated provocations -- discoveries of the complicity of Iran and Syria with insurgents in Iraq -- have been followed by nothing more that impotent finger-wagging, and milquetoast, mealy-mouthed, grade-school-playground "you'd better not" remonstrances from Washington. That's nothing like the response the world was told to expect on 9/12, and it does nothing so much as it communicates our dismal lack of either the spine or resolve to walk our talk.
Do you have anything to contribute on an adult level?
Done. Now ante up.
Yeah. Pretty much. See my more in-depth assessment, immediately above.
Outstanding post....
Very good.
I agree with you. I really thought finding the connection between Iran and the IEDs and the kidnapping of our soldiers would be the final trigger. On days when I am really pessimistic, I think that perhaps the penetration of sleeper cells in the US is so significant that it is constraining us.
Do any of our political elite speak clearly, honestly? It seems to be that it is electrifying and different when they do. Coincidently I just watched a very interesting presentation along the same lines. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev030507a.cfm. The speaker, a comedian (wearing airborne wings) discusses the destructiveness of modern liberalism resulting from thought processes described by Alan Bloom (Closing of the American Mind).
The hunger for clear analysis is why I come here to read.
EXCELLENT video! THANK YOU for the link.
"RAtional thought is an act of bigotry."
Woah! What a searingly incisive analysis of the Liberal slant on the world.
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