Posted on 07/27/2009 10:39:24 AM PDT by La Lydia
A senior Qods Force officer who led one of the three commands in Iraq assigned to attack US and Iraqi forces was one of five Iranians released by the US military on July 9. Mahmud Farhadi, the leader of the Zafr Command, one of three units subordinate to the Qods Force's Ramazan Corps, was among five Iranians turned over to the Iraqi government and then subsequently turned over to the Iranians...Reports initially indicated that five Iranians who were captured by the US in Irbil in northern Iraq in January 2007 were released from custody. But US military intelligence officials told The Long War Journal that Farhadi was disguised as one of the Irbil Five to soften the blow of the release. The US had previously released two members of the Irbil Five in November 2007, according to The Associated Press, but the report received little attention. This "left room for Farhadi to be pawned off as one of the Irbil Five and snuck out the back door," one official told The Long War Journal.
The US captured Farhadi during a raid in the northern Kurdish province of Sulimaniyah on Sept. 20, 2007...Farhadi is considered one of the three most dangerous Iranian operatives to have been captured in Iraqi since the US began targeting the Iranian-backed Shia terror networks. His role as one of the three theater commanders in the Ramazan Corps means he is directly responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing attacks against US forces.
The Ramazan Corps is responsible for the death of hundreds of US soldiers in Iraq, and the corps backed the various uprisings by Shia extremist groups. Ten percent of US deaths in Iraq are estimated to have been caused by the Iranian-supplied, armor-piercing explosively-formed projectiles, or EFPs.
The US military is slowly and quietly turning over some of the most dangerous Iranian operatives and officers as it draws down in Iraq....
I sure hope they didn’t do the “naked pyramid” thing with the guy.
That would have been simply awful.
Because they will like us better! /s
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Captured Iranian Qods Force officer a regional commander in Iraq
October 3, 2007
The September 20 capture of an Iranian Qods Force - Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander in the northern Kurdish province of Sulimaniyah created a stir inside both Iran and Iraq. The Iranians swiftly closed the northern border, claiming the man was an Iranian trade delegation representative named Agha Farhadi on a sanctioned business trip. Multinational forces Iraq later identified the Iranian as Mahmud Farhadi. Today, Major General Kevin Bergner, the spokesman for Multinational Forces Iraq, disclosed that Farhadi was in fact the commander of one of the three Iranian commands inside Iraq.
“Farhadi was the officer-in-charge of the Zafr Command, one of three units subordinate to the Ramazan Corps of the Qods Force,” said Bergner. “This Corps is responsible for most of the Qods Force operations in Iraq. As the Zafr Commander, he was responsible for all Qods Force operations in north-central Iraq that included cross-border transfers of weapons, people and money.”
Why? ...is a good question.
Congress needs to investigates this. Anyone with the ‘nads to take this on?
How about you, McCain?
I hope no one reveals the secret tracking device that was implanted in Farhadi’s brain.
2009/07/15
Foreign minister Iran to take legal action on abduction of 5 diplomats by US
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Iran would preserve the right to pursue the case of five released Iranian diplomats who had been taken hostage by US troops in Iraq in 2007 and will act accordingly.
The five, Baqer Ghabishavi, Mahmoud Farhadi, Majid Qaemi, Majid Daghari and Abbas Hatami-Kasavand, were abducted on January 11, 2007 after the US combat forces broke into the Iranian consulate in Iraq’s Kurdish city of Erbil, some 350 kilometers north of Baghdad.
The diplomats were released last Thursday and returned home this morning thanks to the efforts made by the Iranian Foreign Ministry and cooperation of the Iraqi government.
“The act of taking hostage of the Iranian diplomats by the US forces was “against all international laws and regulations,” Mottaki said, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to welcome the freed diplomats.
He added the Iranian diplomats were released by the Iraqi government after the pulling out of the US forces from the Iraqi cities which has started since June 30 based on a security agreement signed between the Iraqi government and the US officials.
Based on the agreement, the Iraqi forces would solely be in charge of providing security in the war-stricken country as a major stepping stone towards a complete withdrawal of American troops.
I have been thinking and saying for years that we should have allowed Iran and Iraq to destroy each other when they were at war, when Saddam was in power. Iran is a festering boil on the face of the Earth. Now Iraq is afraid of Iran, with very good cause.
Or that the Israelis will drop a few noisy things on strategic locations there.
And then Iran needs to get the hell out of Iraq.
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