Retired Col. Sam Gardiner: US in Iran right now!

[usregimechange]

Gardiner: We’re conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming. From both the Iranians, Americans, and from Congressional sources.

Gardiner: The plan has gone to the White House. That’s not normal planning. When the plan goes to the White House, that means we’ve gone to a different state.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/18/retired-col-sam-gardiner-says-were-in-iran-right-now/

[TomInTib]

1. I am not surprised at all.

Any time we are watching another country, we have SF teams on the ground.

SOP.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Raw Story:

Retired colonel claims U.S. military operations are already 'underway' in Iran

Ron Brynaert
Published: RAW STORY on Saturday April 15, 2006

During an interview on CNN Friday night, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner claimed that U.S. military operations are already 'underway' inside Iran, RAW STORY has found.

"I would say -- and this may shock some -- I think the decision has been made and military operations are under way," Col. Gardiner told CNN International anchor Jim Clancy (as noted by Digby at the blog Hullabaloo).

Gardiner, who designed a war game in November of 2004 for Atlantic Magazine ("Will Iran be next?") which simulated "preparations for a U.S. assault on Iran," also claimed that Aliasghar Soltaniyeh, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told him a few weeks ago that units who had attacked the Revolutionary Guard had been captured and confessed to working with Americans.

"The secretary point is, the Iranians have been saying American military troops are in there, have been saying it for almost a year," Gardiner said. "I was in Berlin two weeks ago, sat next to the ambassador, the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA. And I said, 'Hey, I hear you're accusing Americans of being in there operating with some of the units that have shot up revolution guard units.'"

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Retired_colonel_claims_U.S._Military_operations_0415.html