U.S. forces seize Iranian officer in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: AP

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - An Iranian officer accused of smuggling powerful roadside bombs into Iraq for the elite Quds force was arrested Thursday, the military said.

The suspect — a member of the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards — was detained in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, the military said.

He was allegedly involved in transporting roadside bombs, including armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, into Iraq, according to a statement. It said intelligence reports also indicated he was involved in the infiltration and training of foreign fighters in Iraq.

Officials have said the Bush administration is expected to soon blacklist the Quds force as a terrorist organization, subjecting part of the vast military operation to financial sanctions. The move would be in response to Iranian action in Iraq and elsewhere.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12370498/

[acmavm]

1. Oh? Did he have his Quds I.D. card on him? Was he in his uni?

[Megahurtz]

5. Probably A Set Up

by BushInc.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Here it comes, your 19th constitutional breakdown! nt

[ShortnFiery]

3. Oh yeah, like this is going to help diplomacy.

:thumbsdown:

[BadgerKid]

4. "Accused"

Another day, another inch.

[Hissyspit]

6. U.S. Says Iran Officer Seized in Iraq

Source: Agence France Presse

US says Iran officer seized in Iraq
by Herve Bar

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military said it seized an Iranian officer accused of smuggling bombs in northern Iraq on Thursday, as an American commander said Iraq is emerging from the most violent phase of the war.

The commander told reporters that violence across Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since early 2006.

US troops raided a hotel in the majority Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, a military statement said, and detained an Iranian it said was an officer of the Quds Force, the covert operations arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

He was the latest Iranian national to be detained in Iraq by the US military, which accuses Iran of helping fund and arm Shiite militia groups in the country's bloody sectarian conflict.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070920/ts_afp/iraq_070920161114

[acmavm]

7. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2998945

[feloneous cat]

8. Deja Vu All Over Again?

Dec 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/middleeast/25iraq.html?ei=5090&en=d7bbb4578e61b6da&ex=1324702800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

I'm sure if they look around they may find some MORE diplomats as well....

[shadowknows69]

9. Aw fuck

anybody still think we're not going to war with Iran?

[xchrom]

10. is this the same as a #2?

i know we're always catching #2s -- i just wondered if this was another #2?

[Scurrilous]

11. Kurds denounce U.S. detention of Iranian

<snip>

"U.S. troops arrested an Iranian man during an early morning raid on a hotel in this northern Iraqi city Thursday and accused him of helping to smuggle a deadly type of roadside bomb into Iraq.

But the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement called the arrest "illegitimate," said the man was a member of a trade delegation that had been invited to Sulaimaniyah by the local government and demanded that he be released.

"Actions like these serve no one," the statement said.

The United States has detained several Iranians in Iraq in the past year and accused them of training Iraqi insurgents and providing weapons to them. In January it took five Iranians into custody in Irbil , the Kurdish regional capital, and accused them of being members of the Iranian military. They're still being held. Eight other Iranians who were detained last month in Baghdad were quickly released, however."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20070920/wl_mcclatchy/20070920bcusiraq_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop_1

[bemildred]

12. I was wondering if the detained Iranian might have been a Kurd. nt

[bemildred]

13. Tehran condemns U.S. arrest of Iranian national in Iraq

TEHRAN, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Thursday condemned the arrest of an Iranian national by U.S. troops in Iraq, saying the man was the head of a commercial delegation.

"Such an action by U.S. forces is a violation of international conventions and aims to destroy the ties between Iran and Iraq," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement.

The arrested man, identified as Farhadi, was the head of "border commercial transactions" from the Kermanshah province in western Iran, according to the Iranian foreign ministry's statement.

He was "abducted" by U.S. forces on Thursday morning at the Hotel Palace in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, the statement said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/21/content_6762491.htm

[uppityperson]

14. k&r

[badgervan]

15. All Part of the Plan....

...which has been going on for several months now. It's no coincidence that these convenient Iranian "incidents" have been popping up all over the news shows on a weekly basis. Never forget: these people in OUR White House "make their own reality". This is how they do it, and the MSM has become tool nr. one by never challenging this stuff for accuracy. They frame the argument; the issue. After that, it is accepted as fact by our cheeto munching populace.
It works.