Monday - August 20, 2007

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard: Caught in Iraq 

Seems American forces caught a high ranking Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader in Iraq. Maybe the left can explain to me again why the U.S. should be engaging in talks with nations like Syria or Iran, who are actively helping to kill or troops.  The only negotiating that the U.S. needs to be conducting with these nations should be at the end of a barrel of a gun.  Madmen, authoritarians, and religious fanatics recognize might and they are encouraged by softness of our effeminate left.

The U.S. military has reported the capture of a senior officer of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps stationed in Baghdad.

U.S. forces, which are taking aim at key Iranian officers based in Iraq, conducted a raid that nabbed the officer of the IRGC's Quds Force and killed three of his aides.

"Coalition troops continue to target terrorists who bring weapons and explosives, especially explosively formed penetrators, and other aid into Iraq," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said. "Coalition forces will continue their focused operations against unhelpful Iranian influence interfering in Iraq."

A military statement said nine gunmen were killed in a series of raids in Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported. The statement said the detained IRGC officer facilitated the flow of weapons from Iran to Iraq and their distribution to Shi'ite and other militias.

Officials said IRGC has become a major U.S. target, particularly in the Baghdad area.

"The captured high-priority individual was responsible for smuggling explosively formed penetrators, Katyusha rockets and other weapons from Iran into Iraq," an official said. "The target was also responsible for distributing those weapons to special groups and extremist militants operating throughout Baghdad. The weapons smuggler had direct ties to senior militant leaders and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force."

Officials said five others were arrested during the raid. They said Iranian officers were transferring weapons and finances to a range of militias in an effort to force a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.

Author: The Machiavellian
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