Seizure of Iranians Failed to Validate Bush Line

[rodeodance]

Source: ipsnews



http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40104

Seizure of Iranians Failed to Validate Bush Line
by Gareth Porter*

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration's campaign to seize and detain Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials in Iraq, presented by Bush himself last January as a move to break up an alleged Iranian arms smuggling operation in Iraq, appears to have run its course without having been able to link a single Iranian to any such operation.

Despite administration rhetoric suggesting that the U.S. military had solid intelligence on which to base a campaign to break up Iranian-sponsored networks supplying armour-piercing weapons, what is now known about the kidnapping operations indicates that the actual purpose was to obtain some evidence from interrogations that would support the administration's line that the IRGC's elite Quds Force is involved in assisting Shiite forces militarily.

None of the six Iranians now held by the U.S. military, however, has provided any evidence for the administration's case despite many months of very tough interrogation usually employed on "high value" detainees.

Wayne White, former deputy director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia, told IPS he believes the administration badly wanted to get information from the Iranian detainees that they could use to make their case, but has been unable to do so.

"I'm convinced that they haven't gotten anything out of them," he said in an interview. "They haven't come up with anything they can shop around."


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[EFerrari]

1. It's cr@P! We're the ones sending people across the border into Iran.

Now we know whose president is the bigger winger and it isn't Iran.

[Lerkfish]

2. shocked! shocked am I!

I had no idea the administration was trying to falsify intelligence! They've never done that before!

[rodeodance]

4. grand healine!!--makes my day!!

[Spazito]

3. I have no doubt these Iranians were the recipients of ...

"enhanced interrogation techniques" that are "worth gold" if they result in any "intelligence" that can back up the bush cabal's lies on the road to another illegal act, this time against Iran.

It doesn't seemed to have worked, no gold to be found via torture.

Edited for clarity.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Those Iranian detainees aren't the only one's being tortured .. ahh.

ahem.. I mean "interrogated" harshly in a desperate attempt to find SOME shred of "evidence" linking Iran to the Iraq insurgency. Just last week one of the interrogators went public, saying that they were instructed to make Iran the focus of many interrogations of many detainees. It's just about as sick as it gets, as Bushco flails around abusing and torturing people to validate his demonization of Iran as "evil".

[mallard]

10. Re: interrogator goes public

Would you happen to have a link on that?

[99th_Monkey]

12. yep. ... here ya go ..

thank God/dess for the foreign press.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2208997,00.html

[rAVES]

6. Why not just beat them until they "admit" the "truth"

:sarcasm:

[truthisfreedom]

7. Torture for the sake of torture. bush gets off on it... cheney dreams about it...

And we pay for it.

[Cobalt-60]

8. the Republican Party officially stands for Torture and Murder

This makes arguing against it pretty easy.
I'm hoping that these two evil, primordial horrors will
spell the death of the Republican party.

[leftchick]

9. can they rescind the assinine K-L ammendment now?

But Clinton’s hawkishness was in full force a couple of weeks ago when Bush announced sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds division. The Senate went further. It declared the Guard a foreign terrorist organization (which is no different than declaring the U.S. Marines an American terrorist organization). And Clinton voted for that silly initiative, as did 74 other senators. None of the other Democratic candidates supported the resolution.


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/13/5185/

:grr:

[LynnTheDem]

11. And them damn Iranians use WOODCHIPPERS to abuse Iraqis with!

They stuff them Iraqis into the woodchipper feet first so they suffer longer!

Ya really gotta wonder how a nation supposedly "the best" ended up with so many citizens so deeply fucking stupid.