U.S. seizes 'Iran agent' in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S.-led coalition forces say they have captured a "highly sought" individual in Iraq with alleged ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force.

The raid took place early Wednesday south of Baghdad in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala, a U.S. military statement said.

According to the military, the detainee was suspected of coordinating with high-level Quds force officers, whose goal it was to transport Iraqis into Iran for terrorist training.

Although the coalition is still assessing the individual's connection with the Quds force, Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver described the arrest as an "integral part of dismantling terror networks that seek to kill innocent Iraqis and security forces."

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.iran/

[bahrbearian]

1. What did they do , pull him out of the Freezer.

[olddad56]

14. or dragged him across the border.

[yava]

17. Geography

Contrary to most on this page, I have no problem accepting that some Irakis work for the Iranian regime which we may (do) not like. After all we have lobbies for all countries. In addition, they may be there legally as the two countries share a 1000 mile border and lots of history and culture.
Question: is it to a western superpower to go there and arrest the guy?

[bahrbearian]

18. Exactly. we use these things for Propaganda,,

to rationalize why we are there. We do not belong there , we have meddled in the region much to much.

[Javaman]

2. isn't it odd that they can find these "agents" but can't find OBL?

just sayin.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. IRAN! TERROR! IRAN! TERROR!

Do they have a color coded list for security threats in Iraq. too? 'Cuz ours sure doesn't change no matter how many unknown packages and other terror threats are trotted out daily by this misadministration and its complicit media outlets.

[classof56]

16. Thanks for posting!

Really needed this good chuckle. Would be even funnier if it weren't so damned...oh, well, you get the picture!

Tired Old Cynic

[Jim__]

4. Interesting that CNN doesn't mention that the "Iranian agent" is an Iraqi.

From MSNBC:

In a pre-dawn raid in Karbala on Wednesday, U.S. forces captured an Iraqi believed to be working as the local contact to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’s elite Quds Force to supply Shiite militias with Iranian-made weapons, said Maj. Winfield Danielson III.

[tired]

5. Thats strange...

Didn't we just hear that "they" would be raising the Iran/Terror flag after Labor Day?

[tanyev]

6. Sell the product. Work it, work it.

[tom_paine]

9. Bingo. You cannot sell tyranny to a nation of formerly free people unless you WORK IT!

:puke:

[MnFats]

7. I'll bet he set the Reichstag on fire too.

a little extraordinary rendition and we'll know who set the Chicago Fire, too!

[paparush]

8. Was he driving one of Colin Powell's mobile chem lab trucks?

[Bonobo]

10. Another diplomat.

[DemBones DemBones]

11. And they found three "Islamic terrorists" in Germany today;

these are to get us ready for the launch of the campaign to bomb Iran, scheduled to start September 11.

[AzDar]

12. He was weraing his super-secret Iranian Agent Decoder Ring and Tee Shirt.

Also rumored to have X-ray specs on his person that can see through clothing.:eyes:

[HuffleClaw]

13. i expect more of this crap and lots of it

and i expect them to add a NUCLEAR angle real soon

[IsItJustMe]

15. YEAH, HUHU