UK: Iranians 'up to no good' in Iraq (BBC)

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Thursday, 4 January 2007, 22:50 GMT

Iranians 'up to no good' in Iraq

Five Iranians arrested by US troops in Baghdad last month were on a covert
mission to influence Iraq's government, British officials have told the BBC.

The five men were senior intelligence officers "up to no good", an unnamed
official told the Newsnight programme.

The arrests caused a diplomatic row when it became clear that the Iranians,
who have since been released, had been invited by the Iraqi government.

-snip-

They said that the arrested men were in Iraq to hold high-level meeting with
representatives of several Iraqi Shia factions.

"There was discussion of whether the (Prime Minister Nouri) Maliki government
would succeed, who should be in which ministerial jobs," one official told the
programme.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6232735.stm

Whose puppet is the Iraqi government?

[acmavm]

1. That's funny. Like the UK (and the US) had the Iraqi's best

interests in mind when they decided to bomb the place back to the Middle Ages.

[htuttle]

2. Is there anyone actually "up to good" in Iraq nowadays?

[IndyOp]

3. This is PROPAGANDA - the drum beat for bombing Iran grows louder!

An article by Ledeen that makes clear why propaganda is appearing:

The Time May Have Come - The Iran We Cannot Avoid - Michael Ledeen
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3047465

[zanne]

4. Uh oh. Those damned "intelligence sources" again.

I wonder if this is how Bush et al. are planning to get us into Iran. Unnamed "intelligence" will whisper to Bush about Iran, just as it caused God to tell him to invade Iraq. And if the "intelligence" is "classified", how can we prove him wrong?

[aquart]

5. Okay, this is just funny.

Let's count our blessings that the Chinese aren't in it, yet.

[Amused Musings]

6. The Thing is

Iran has done more than any other country in the reason to legitimize the new government.