Iranian troops capture Iraqi officer, five soldiers

[bemildred]

BAGHDAD, Sept 8 (KUNA) -- Iranian border troops have arrested an Iraqi military officer and five soldiers after a gunfire clash in the border region of Diyala, a military source said on Friday.

The clash occurred on Thursday after the Iranian troops opened fire at a joint patrol of Iraqi and American regulars, the source said, adding that the US soldiers did not get involved in the firefight.

KUNA

[ECH1969]

1. Iraq will be ruled by Iran soon

The second the US cuts and runs which it will do the Iranian Army will flood the border and crush the Iraqi Army in a matter of days.

[ECH1969]

2. Iraqis blame Iran for border clash, captures

Iraqi border guards accused Iran on Friday of shelling their territory and taking six soldiers prisoner after a clash on the border northeast of Baghdad.

Iran's state news agency said on Thursday seven Iraqi security personnel were detained crossing into Iranian territory in Ilam province. An investigation was under way, IRNA said.

A senior officer in Iraq's U.S.-backed border guards service said Iranian artillery had fired on to Iraqi soil near the town of Mandali, 100 km (60 miles) from Baghdad, on Wednesday.

Clashes on Thursday following the discovery by an Iraqi patrol of an Iranian outpost inside Iraq led to the capture of Lieutenant Waleed Abdul Hussein and five of his men by Iranians, the senior officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "They took the officer and five soldiers, along with their Humvee at midday yesterday," the officer said, referring to a U.S.-built military vehicle used by the Iraqi forces.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08867826.htm

[Igel]

6. Probably newly discovered Iranian territory.

Maps dating back decades showing that it's Iranian territory will be made ... I'm sorry, I meant "discovered", and a mighty resistance against the occupation will be set up to justify augmenting Iran's military.

[teryang]

3. Stratfor spin- US problem in Iraq caused by Iran

Stratfor says in their "impartial and objective" strategic analysis that Iran "trapped" the US in Iraq.

[bemildred]

5. Oh, that is hilarious. nt

[teryang]

7. John Maudlin pushes Stratfor he emailed the article

He's a financial advisor of some kind. Stratfor is a a paid subscription so I don't have a link.

In any case, I responded to one of your old posts about the spread of military technology and the leveling of the playing field. Enjoyed the article because it was thought provoking.

[coalition_unwilling]

8. ROTFLMAO -- No Iran did not trap the US in Iraq. Rather, BFEE has

met its Stalingrad, shot its wad, and now the American public must pay the piper for the imperial delusions of the BFEE. The American public pretty much deserves it, so I don't feel too sorry for them. However, the front-line grunts are the ones I feel most sorry for, as they are (for the most part) working class stiffs who fell victim to the "poverty draft" and neo-jingoism.

[Javaman]

4. This apparently is nothing new. A few weeks ago...

I met a soldier who just got back from over there and was stationed in this same exact area.

He was telling me then that it was almost a daily occurrence to fight Iranians.

[BeautifulLoser]

9. So we are at war with Iran now?

Just great :(

[Javaman]

10. You know, I wondered about just that and I asked his opinion...

He really didn't know, he said, because for as long as he was stationed there, they were having these problems.

He served from the start till Feb of this year.

I think that these Iranian forces are agitators. Trying to stir things up in the south. They seem to have worked well with Sadr and his forces.

[ECH1969]

11. The Iranians didn't start getting real agressive trying to split up Iraq

until sometime around late 2005 when Ahmadinejad came into office.

[maddezmom]

12. kick

[Iceburg]

13. Iranian military captures 5 Iraqi soldiers after clash

By Amit Paley
The Washington Post
Published: Saturday, September 9, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iranian military seized five Iraqi soldiers after a cross-border skirmish between the two forces, Iraqi authorities said Friday.

The captured troops were part of a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol that trekked on Thursday afternoon to a border post near Mandali, a town of 13,000 located 90 miles southeast of Baghdad, to investigate reports that a large number of Iranians were crossing into Iraq there, according to Brig. Gen. Subhi Bairam, commander of the Mandali police.

Iranian forces opened fire when the patrol moved within about 50 yards of the border, Bairam said. The patrol returned fire and then retreated from the scene. Back at Mandali, they realized that five soldiers and their vehicle had been captured by the Iranians.

The Iranian military said it arrested the troops for ''infiltrating the Iranian soil,'' according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. Iran also said it had arrested seven soldiers, not five.
...
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/09/09/a2.int.iraq.0909.p1.php?section=nation_world

[Pharaoh]

14. Uh Oh!

lets hope they did'nt capture any merican troops,

or georgie boy could go apeshit.......

[AlamoDemoc]

16. my thought exactly...these skirmishes on the Iranian border makes me worry

[TomInTib]

15. Looks as if the Iranians are ready

Pretty provocative on our part.

[IndianaGreen]

18. Looks like US troops are leading Iraqi troops into provocations

I'll bet that the Americans are the only ones with maps, and they are ordering the gullible Iraqi recruits to go into an area that the Americans know is in Iranian territory.

[Zhade]

17. Is this report reliable?

If so - YIKES.

EDIT: checked more sources, I reiterate my YIKES!

[0007]

19. According to Israel's standards that would call for Iraq to shell

the living fuck out of Iran, 'eh?

What is the hell am I thinking, we know it doesn't work that way!!