Syria rebels say hostages are Iranian Guards

AFP ^ | 08/04/12

[TigerLikesRooster]

Syria rebels say hostages are Iranian Guards

AFP – Sat, Aug 4, 2012.

Syrian rebels posted Sunday an online video of Iranians kidnapped in Damascus, charging they were elite Revolutionary Guards, and warning Tehran of further abductions over its support for Damascus.

Fighters of the Al-Baraa Brigade of the rebel Free Syrian Army have "captured 48 of the shabiha (militiamen) of Iran who were on a reconnaissance mission in Damascus," said a man dressed in FSA officer's uniform in the video posted on YouTube.

"During the investigation, we found that some of them were officers in the Revolutionary Guards," he said, showing documents taken from one of the men, who appeared in the background

[Kenton]

What goes around comes around.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It seems that Iran won't watch idly as Syrian regime is gradually breaking apart. How far does Iran prepare to go in order to prop up the friendly Syrian regime? Outright military intervention? Could we see multinational Sunni-Shia war fought in Syria?

[rawhide]

One thing that would make it difficult for Iran to intervene is they do not share a land border with Syria.

[Steven Tyler]

....unless they enter Syria via Iraq

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[FreeAtlanta]

The main reason Iraq was so critical. I argued this with my leftist associates for hours and hours.

Iraq was the linchpin or hub that needed to be controlled to control Middle Eastern terrorism, but they wouldn't hear anything of the sort. They just hated Bush and it was a tool to bash him.

[Alexander James]

What a weird war this could be... Allawites, Christians, the IRGC and Syrian Shi’a on Bashar’s side. The remnants of Al Qaeda in in Iraq, Liwaa al Ummah, the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria, the Free Syrian Army and the Kurds on the other.

The only people I feel sorry for are the masses of non-armed civilians in the middle... But it is funny to see Iran and AQ fight... Just sayin.