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[Nowhere Man]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a90DLQrWr.YY&refer=us

[Junior]

[Corky]

I pulled this off Debka, an Israeli intelligence website.

DEBKAfile: Kurdish sources report five helicopters carried US forces to pre-dawn raid of Iranian consulate in N. Iraqi town of Irbil

January 11, 2007, 5:21 PM (GMT+02:00)

They were dropped on the roof while armored vehicles encircled the building. The troops used loudspeakers to call out in Farsi and Arabic to the consulate staff not to resist �or else they would be killed.� Five Iranian diplomatic staff members were detained and documents and computers impounded.

Tehran has strongly protested this breach of its sovereign territory and summoned the Swiss ambassador who represents US interests in Iran and the Iraqi ambassador to demand the immediate release of the Iranian diplomats.

Later Thursday, Jan. 11, Tehran reported three large explosions shaking the southern town of Khorramshahr north of the oil port of Abadan on the Shatt al-Arb waterway.

DEBKAfile: Khorramshahr, which faces the Iraqi town of Basra, is one of the key towns from which Iran delivers smuggled fighters, weapons and explosives to its Shiite supporters in Iraq. Our sources also report that some hours before President George W. Bush�s policy speech, a series of explosions were heard in Iranian Balochistan. Tehran imposed a blackout on the incident.

These statements and events tie in closely with the new Iraq strategy announced by the US president of confronting Iran and Syria for �allowing networks to use their territory to attack US forces.�

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[Junior]

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[cbclark4]

"U.S. Links 5 Iranians to Iraq Insurgency

By LAUREN FRAYER

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Five Iranians arrested in northern Iraq last week were connected to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard faction that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday.

The statement provided the first details from the military on the five people detained by U.S.-led forces Thursday in a raid on what the Iraqis and Tehran said was an Iranian liaison office in Irbil, a city in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq about 220 miles north of Baghdad.

The military said the Qods Force faction of the Revolutionary Guard, the military pillar of Iran's Islamic Revolution, is "known for providing funds, weapons, improvised explosive device technology and training to extremist groups attempting to destabilize the Government of Iraq and attack Coalition forces."

"Qods" is the Arabic name for Jerusalem, and a frequent name for political or military factions across the Muslim world."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070114/D8ML5JUO1.html

"U.S. military: Arrested Iranians linked to arming insurgents in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) � Five Iranians arrested in northern Iraq last week were connected to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard faction that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday.

The statement provided the first details from the military on the five people detained by U.S.-led forces Thursday in a raid on what the Iraqis and Tehran said was an Iranian liaison office in Irbil, a city in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq about 220 miles north of Baghdad.

The military said the Quds Force faction of the Revolutionary Guard, the military pillar of Iran's Islamic Revolution, is "known for providing funds, weapons, improvised explosive device technology and training to extremist groups attempting to destabilize the Government of Iraq and attack Coalition forces.""

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-01-14-iranian-detainees_x.htm


"Iran demands US releases captives (al Jazeera)

Iran has demanded the immediate release of five Iranians held by US forces in Iraq, saying that they are diplomats.

Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a foreign ministry spokesman, rejected on Sunday US accusations that its five nationals were agents of the Revolutionary Guards seeking to destabilise Iraq.

The United States military said in a statement earlier on Sunday that the detainees were connected to an Iranian group that provides weapons to Iraqi fighters."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/17997E88-2361-4C6A-9813-CA905F6FA831.htm

cbc

[cbclark4]

RE: my last post of news articles.

There are hints that plans are underway to hit sites in Iran that are being used to manufacture IEDs. It is rumored that the captured Iranian "Diplomats" are spilling their guts, having been caught red handed in possession of said IEDs.

Sit back and watch.

cbc

[Gopher]

Interesting title, Nowhere Man. A raid characterized as "an invasion."

But what do you think about the Iranians' storming and then seizing the American embassy in Tehran in 1979? The Iranians' holding American foreign service officers and other personnel hostage, at gunpoint, for a year?

Did Iran invade the United States?

[Nowhere Man]

The title was a reference to both the article and follow-up question as to whether this and the troop surge is the lead-up to an attack on Iran.

I suppose if you want to be technical, then both cases constitute a kind of invasion given that embassies and such are considered "sovereign soil", or whatever the proper term is for it.

So, yes.

[Gopher]

Thanks for your response.

I agree that this...

[Junior]

Why not pull the troops out of Iraq and send them to Tehran? Iraq isn't developing Nukes, Iran is.

[madcap]

There we go! A solution for everybody! We make all the people that want us to leave Iraq happy by sending them over the boarder and all those gung-ho terrorist fighters out there can be happy when we level Tehran. Really, what are our troops doing in Iraq anyway? Hmm...isn't there a war going on or something? Might be a question of availability as I think they are booked solid until 2008.

[Junior]