Jan 11 2007
Shots Across Iran’s Bow?
Courtesy of Debkafile:
Kurdish sources report five helicopters carried US forces to pre-dawn raid of Iranian consulate in N. Iraqi town of Irbil …Tehran has strongly protested this breach of its sovereign territory and summoned the Swiss ambassador who represents US interests in Iran and the Iraqi ambassador to demand the immediate release of the Iranian diplomats.
This is, most likely, one result of the late December apprehension of Iranian "Diplomats" in Iraq, and the treasure trove of intel gained from that operation. One can make the assumption that we now have details on what exactly the Iranians have been up to, and we are shutting their operations down…
The same piece notes:
Later Thursday, Jan. 11, Tehran reported three large explosions shaking the southern town of Khorramshahr north of the oil port of Abadan on the Shatt al-Arb waterway… Khorramshahr, which faces the Iraqi town of Basra, is one of the key towns from which Iran delivers smuggled fighters, weapons and explosives to its Shiite supporters in Iraq. Our sources also report that some hours before President George W. Bush’s policy speech, a series of explosions were heard in Iranian Balochistan. Tehran imposed a blackout on the incident.
Balochistan is a region at the conjunction of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Presumably, the Iranians could be using that are to support the Taliban and other Jihadis fighting to overturn the governments it neighbors.
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Could be this… Could be that… Or it could be just more flailing about. Our spooks can’t find their own asses with both hands and a Sherpa to lead the way…
Speaking of which… Remember the real battle against Al-Qaeda? The one the shrub abandoned so he could steal some more oil? FoxNews is carrying an account of a big fuck you from Afghanistan: “Afghan Warlord Says He Helped Bin Laden Escape Tora Bora.”
“Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a television interview broadcast Thursday that his fighters helped Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden escape intense U.S. bombing in the Tora Bora mountains in 2001”… But he insists “"We have no organizational link with Al Qaeda. We have no military operations outside of Afghanistan."” Just paying back an old friend, I suppose…
Meanwhile, the Democrat controlled House has done what the Republicans could have done long ago: “House Democrats approved legislation yesterday to implement many of the remaining recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission even as portions of the sprawling package faced immediate problems in the Senate.”
And who doesn’t like it? The shrubs boy Joe Lieberman…
Democrat my ass…
This will sound cynical and even downright ugly, but I’ll posit it anyway: The main difference between Democrats and Republicans on the so-called “war on terror” is Republicans want to fight it whereas Democrats want to win it – which is the last thing Republicans want. Republicans – especially the neocons who run the shrub – want this to go on forever, so they can continue to use it as a pretext to gut the Constitution and accumulate power.
Could be this… Could be that… Or it could be just more flailing about. Our spooks can’t find their own asses with both hands and a Sherpa to lead the way…
Speaking of which… Remember the real battle against Al-Qaeda? The one the shrub abandoned so he could steal some more oil? FoxNews is carrying an account of a big fuck you from Afghanistan: “Afghan Warlord Says He Helped Bin Laden Escape Tora Bora.”
“Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a television interview broadcast Thursday that his fighters helped Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden escape intense U.S. bombing in the Tora Bora mountains in 2001”… But he insists “"We have no organizational link with Al Qaeda. We have no military operations outside of Afghanistan."” Just paying back an old friend, I suppose…
Meanwhile, the Democrat controlled House has done what the Republicans could have done long ago: “House Democrats approved legislation yesterday to implement many of the remaining recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission even as portions of the sprawling package faced immediate problems in the Senate.”
And who doesn’t like it? The shrubs boy Joe Lieberman…
Democrat my ass…
This will sound cynical and even downright ugly, but I’ll posit it anyway: The main difference between Democrats and Republicans on the so-called “war on terror” is Republicans want to fight it whereas Democrats want to win it – which is the last thing Republicans want. Republicans – especially the neocons who run the shrub – want this to go on forever, so they can continue to use it as a pretext to gut the Constitution and accumulate power.
Could be this… Could be that… Or it could be just more flailing about. Our spooks can’t find their own asses with both hands and a Sherpa to lead the way…
Speaking of which… Remember the real battle against Al-Qaeda? The one the shrub abandoned so he could steal some more oil? FoxNews is carrying an account of a big screw you from Afghanistan: “Afghan Warlord Says He Helped Bin Laden Escape Tora Bora.”
“Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a television interview broadcast Thursday that his fighters helped Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden escape intense U.S. bombing in the Tora Bora mountains in 2001”… But he insists “"We have no organizational link with Al Qaeda. We have no military operations outside of Afghanistan."” Just paying back an old friend, I suppose…
Meanwhile, the Democrat controlled House has done what the Republicans could have done long ago: “House Democrats approved legislation yesterday to implement many of the remaining recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission even as portions of the sprawling package faced immediate problems in the Senate.”
And who doesn’t like it? The shrubs boy Joe Lieberman…
Democrat my ass…
This will sound cynical and even downright ugly, but I’ll posit it anyway: The main difference between Democrats and Republicans on the so-called “war on terror” is Republicans want to fight it whereas Democrats want to win it – which is the last thing Republicans want. Republicans – especially the neocons who run the shrub – want this to go on forever, so they can continue to use it as a pretext to gut the Constitution and accumulate power.
Baluchistan is also where one of the unapprehended perps involved in the 1st World trade center bombing was thought to have been from (he had multiplte aliases and passports from other countries).A US led multinational force made a raid on a building flying the Iranian flag in Irbil, Iraq today. (Was it a consular building, or not, we say no– they say yes). 6 men were taken into custody along with all the computers. <a href="http://dailywork.greatestjournal.com/#entry_68641">Info and link</a>.
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