What Bush won't mention -- These Iranian agents were found in Iraqi ally compounds

[sabra]

Both al-Hakim and the Kurds are our supposed allies in Iraq:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17103722/site/newsweek

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The officials zeroed in on the Qods Force as the "enabler of violence." " really report directly to the Supreme Leader," the senior defense analyst said at the briefing. This had led the U.S. military to conclude that the campaign was being orchestrated at "the highest levels of Iranian government." Recent U.S. military raids in Baghdad have nabbed top members of the IRGC. Disclosing some of the details of these raids, the briefers said that last Dec. 21, Mohsen Chizari, allegedly the No. 3 man in the IRGC, was pulled out of a compound linked to the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the top Shiite party in the government. Chizari was later freed when it was proven that he had a diplomatic passport. The defense analyst told the briefing that there were no dubious ties between the Qods Force and members of the Iraqi government, but the senior defense official seemed to contradict that assertion by noting that soldiers found a long list of weapon inventories at the SCIRI compound--including sniper rifles and mortars, items that he called "offensive-type armament."

Another five members of the IRGC were taken out of an Iranian diplomatic office in the Kurdish Iraqi city of Erbil in mid-January and are still being detained. When the U.S. military raided this office, which Iranian officials insist has consular status, they allegedly caught the group trying to flush documents down the toilet. At least one of the suspects was trying to alter his appearance by shaving his head. And one of the detained men, the officials claimed today, also had explosive residue on his hands. Additional exhibits at the briefing included two IDs from the suspects held in this raid. One was an official IRGC ID for a 43-year-old colonel named Baqer Qabshavi. The branch of his work was listed as "intelligence." The second card was a student ID from Iran’s Imam Hussein University for a bearded middle-aged man named Hamid Reza Askari-Shekooh. His area of study was listed as "strategic defense studies."

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Well of course - they are allied with shiite factions.

The whole propaganda campaign is a potemkin village in front of the hideous reality.

When is somebody from the complaint media going to ask "why would shiite Iran arm the sunni side of the civil war in Iraq"?

[leftchick]

2. no one has mentioned that

or the surrounding Sunni countries, our friends, who are arming Iraqi Sunnis. The WH press are worse than worthless.

[crikkett]

3. where'd your graphic come from?

wondering...

[sabra]

4. TPM, the orginal source is from DoD

http://talkingpointsmemo.com

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. My guess is that the entire story is bogus.

But the truth won't come out for months or years.