Elite Iranian agent arrested in Iraq

[bemildred]

See, torture works.

An agent of Iran's prestigious Jerusalem Force was arrested in Iraq carrying money and planning attacks against U.S. troops, sources said.

U.S. Coalition forces arrested members of an underground armed group operating in Iraq's eastern Diyala province Thursday. Among them was a senior member of the Jerusalem Force carrying $150,000 in cash, said the sources.

The Iranian agent, along with an Iraqi insurgent, reportedly revealed during interrogation the location of a group of other Iranian agents working with them and admitted to having smuggled the group and their weapons through the Iran-Iraq border, avoiding security controls.

The Jerusalem Force is a specialized, elite unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that reportedly oversees Iran's military activities in other countries.

World Net Daily

[BattyDem]

1. Well, isn't that convenient?

:eyes:

[neebob]

19. Yeah, kinda like when OBL came out with that tape saying

Zarqawi is the bureau chief for Al Qaeda in Iraq, only that was after the fact and this is before.

[Redstone]

2. Bullshit

bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Furthermore: This isn't news. this is bullshit.

Redstone

[bemildred]

4. Yeah. that was my take too.

Incredible convenient timing, just happening to catch these fellows
now and get them to "confess" to all these transgressions.

I was surprised to find out the Iranians had any "prestigious" forces
or "specialized, elite units".

[Botany]

15. World Net Daily is a moonie funded right wing site

Do not believe anything from them. Is this poster a troll?

[interupt]

3. Wow and all links lead back to the bastion of impartiality WND

A week old and written by Aaron Klein.

The evidence is irrefutable...nuke Iran now

[rustydog]

5. Sounds like the Administrations claims of every single Iraqi

captured was a "High Ranking Iraqi official"or a "High ranking al qaeda leader.

But is is the first piece of "proof" the Administration can use to build a case of invasion. You are with us or you are against us.

[BeHereNow]

6. NO WAY!!!

The crap these people concoct to
support their crimes against humanity!
Do they REALLY think we can't figure
out that this is MORE PROPAGANDA
and that they will tell us anything to
get support for their next target???
E-GADS!
This is getting beyond ridiculous....
BHN

[pretzel4gore]

7. World Net Daily is a liar

sorta like condi, rumsvelt, bushwack, cheney, cnn, fox'news' rush limbah-humbug, hannazi, savage weiner, bush asshole (coulter) bush other asshole (peter jennings) bush's other asshole (imus) his biggest asshole (wimp russert) and so on.....
'lies make the world go round for the members of the flat earth society'

[DS1]

8. Jerusalem Force? Is that anything like the Hebrew Hammer?

:7

[bemildred]

10. Eh, they do seem to exist, quite a few of them too:

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/qods

They must have a lot of prestigious, specialized, elite troops.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. And why shouldn't they?

They are a nation of 70+ million that 15 years ago ended a ten year war with Iraq. That means they have millions of veterans and an experienced officer corp, even if their enlisted troops are rookies. Any conflict of that magnitude is going to generate some elite units. As for their intelligence work, they were able to draw on the experience of one of the most vicious secret police in the world when they wrested power from the Shah. And they know that they are a target to the west.

What have they seen in the last few years? Hostile armies establishing themselves on both their eastern and western borders. The US refusing to believe they are not developing nuclear weapons, despite their denials, and they saw how much effect Saddam's similar denials meant.

We (the general American public) may not be getting ready for an invasion. But they sure as shit are.

[bemildred]

20. The FAS site says 350,000 of these fellows.

That seems like a lot of "specialized, elite" troops to me.

[tx_dem41]

9. Although I trust nothing from WND, one has to be naive...

or just ignorant of the situation in Iraq, to think that Iranian agents haven't been flowing back and forth across the border for two years now.

[interupt]

12. Yeah like Chalabi :)

[tx_dem41]

16. Yes, definitely the most "noted" example.

There are thousands of others.

[BeHereNow]

11. Why was this topic moved?

I don't understand.
Isn't this LBN?
BHN

[tx_dem41]

17. WND-sourced stories are not allowed...

in LBN.

[bemildred]

22. Sorry, didn't know, should RTFM. Should go in the lounge, really. nt

[tx_dem41]

23. Don't worry about it.

Its a good topic. At the least, it should be right here in General Discussion.

[BeHereNow]

24. Ah-ha! Thanks, now I know! n/t bhn

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[54anickel]

13. Hey, is that US $ they're carrying around with them? Wasn't there

something posted yesterday about lot of US cash being "secretly" doled out by Iraqi officials, sort of on the sly. Nah, it's probably not related...then again a million bucks and 2 car loads of weapons...:shrug:

[two gun sid]

14. How the fuck do they find

a member of the elite Jerusalem Force but can't find Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? How much of this bullshit do they expect me to swallow? This guy is probably so low level he doesn't even know who he works for. I'll bet after a few days of water boarding he told them what they wanted to hear. Jesus, this administration is so full of shit.

[thebigidea]

21. all we need now is Richard Perle telling us Iran has Al-Qaeda links

... then Lester Holt can host a show called COUNTDOWN: IRAN