“IRANIAN PRISONERS”
The captain and other Interior Ministry sources said the commander of the quick reaction force, Colonel Sami Hussein, and two of his men were killed by a sniper.
No other casualties were reported from the clashes and police said it was not clear how many civilians had been killed or wounded in the initial shooting at the convoy. The wounded were taken to a hospital in Baquba.
“We captured a number of militants and were surprised to see that some of them were Iranian fighters,” the police intelligence captain said.
An Interior Ministry official, who did not want to be named, also said Iranian gunmen had been captured. Baquba lies 90 km (60 miles) from the Iranian border.
The United States and Britain have accused Shi’ite Iran of meddling in Iraq’s affairs and providing military assistance to Iraq’s pro-government Shi’ite militias. However, there have been few instances of Iranians actually being captured inside Iraq.
Iranian SF captued in Iraq? Let’s put this on page one, editors! Better yet, let’s hold them hostage and make outrageous demands!
But, are they military members, or just bozos who crossed the border to join the terrorists?
The distinction is important I think. I’m not sure how you can tell. Likely if they ARE military members they would not have any markings or identification with them.
The Italians identified known members of the Iranian Secret Service in their TAOR prior to the attack which killed their soldiers a few months back.
The Washington Times reported on the Iranian connection to these killings in Nassiryah:
Iranian agents were accused yesterday of masterminding a bomb attack that killed three Italian soldiers in Iraq last week and intensified political pressure for the incoming government to speed up its withdrawal of troops from that country. Thousands of politicians, soldiers and police solemnly filed past the coffins of the three soldiers at a chapel at Rome’s Celio military hospital yesterday. An honor guard from Italy’s Corrazieri cavalry regiment stood stiffly by the coffins, each draped with the Italian tricolor flag and the swords and berets of the dead.
The soldiers, whose deaths are being treated as a national tragedy, were killed on Thursday by a remotely detonated roadside bomb that exploded next to their armored vehicle near Nasariyah in southern Dhi Qar province. Pathologists said temperatures in the vehicle exceeded 5,000 degrees. The newspaper la Repubblica yesterday quoted officials of the Military Intelligence and Security Service, known by its Italian acronym SISMI, saying the attack was organized by Iranian agents, who were first spotted in the province in early April. The SISMI sources were quoted as saying the Iranians met with radical Shi’ite leaders to plot that attack and another roadside bomb that exploded near three Carabinieri paramilitary police armored vehicles close to a bridge over the Euphrates River on April 22.
A spy in a local police station evidently provided the Iranians with the route to be taken by the soldiers’ convoy. Iraqi officers at the Nasariyah police station were trained by the Italian contingent, but many are considered unreliable.
That’s extremely unsettling and could be considered an act of war if true.
If not, it’s very aggressive and requires a serious response.
“The soldiers, whose deaths are being treated as a national tragedy…”
How long, oh Lord, how long?
Not a “tragedy”.
An atrocity.
As Col. Cooper has already informed us after 9/11, the proper response to a tragedy is grief.
The proper response to an atrocity is rage.
“Datsa not nice…”
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IF THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE IRANIAN. LETS KEEP THEM HOSTAGE, SAY FOR MORE THAN 300 DAYS.
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Let’s not be hypocrites and keep hostages. Let’s not try and incite more hatred for us among people who already don’t like us much. Let’s show them how much they can trust us. After all, they helped us a crapton in Afghanistan. We would be friends with Iran right now if we hadn’t called them the Axis of Evil and ignored them after that, when they were clearly reaching out their hands to help us after 9/11.
Maybe we should have declared war on China for helping the vietnamese out during the vietname war? Or perhaps the soviets should have declared war on us for helping Afghanistan in the 80′s.
Let’s stop being hypocrites, stop acting solely in our own interest, and act based on the principle of things. If it is deep down right or wrong.
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