Pakistan 'Holds Elite Iran Force'

[tekisui]

Source: BBC News

Eleven members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards force have been arrested in Pakistan after illegally entering the country, police there say.

They were detained in Mashkel near the Pakistan-Iran border, they added.

It comes eight days after a suicide bomb killed 42 people, among them six Revolutionary Guard commanders, in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province.

Iran said a Sunni militant group had launched the attack from Pakistan. Islamabad denied any involvement.

Pakistani officials said the 11 Revolutionary Guards arrested on Monday were being questioned. Two vehicles were also reportedly seized.

Last week, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Pakistan to arrest the attackers, believed to belong to a group called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God.

more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8326517.stm

[kenny blankenship]

1. Cross border counter terrorism "operations" - good for us, but evil when "they" do it.

[Igel]

2. Well, the same is true for the Iranians' POV, n'est-ce pas?

Bad when we do it, good when they do it.

Since it's the Iranians being held by the Pakistanis and not by the Americans, it seems that it's the Iranians' hypocrisy that is a bit more salient. (Except for those to whom anything the US does is automatically more salient--their own sort of American exceptionalism.)

[spanone]

3. eventually all nations will get da bomb and we can probably kiss mankind goodbye

we will war our way into oblivion