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| Iran is getting caught red handed again. Sick Shi'a hordes have been transporting supplies and personnel into Iraq to support the insurgence for years now. They deny most of it. But how long can you go on telling lies? Not indefinately. You will get caught. The following comes from the headlines this weekend.
US troops seize gang 'smuggling bombs from Iran'
Apr 27 02:52 PM US/Eastern
US forces on Friday detained four members of a gang suspected of smuggling armour-piercing bombs from Iran to Iraq and sending back militants for "terrorist training", the military said.
A statement from US command in Iraq said the suspects were picked up in an early morning raid on the east Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, a known stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
"The individuals targeted during the raid are suspected members of a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq," it said.
The EFP is a form of roadside bomb in which the detonation of an explosive charge inside a steel tube causes a copper disk to deform into a fist-sized chunk of supersonic molten metal that can scythe through armoured vehicles.
American commanders say the design is exclusively Iranian and in January alleged that at least 170 US troops had been killed by EFPs since May 2004.
The statement also said that the gang had sent "militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training."
"Intelligence reports also indicate the secret cell has ties to a kidnapping network that conducts attacks within Iraq," it added.
The announcement came one day after the US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, accused Iranian Revolutionary Guards of supporting a Mahdi Army splinter group implicated in the kidnap and murder of five GIs.
Since January, US forces have been holding five alleged members of the Guards' covert Qods Force after seizing them in a raid on an Iranian government office in the northern Iraqi City of Arbil.
Tehran denies that its agents are involved in the Iraqi conflict. | | |
| Please continue to pray with me for the families of the victims of the horrible tragedy which occurred in Virginia. This was a sickening act of domestic terrorism.
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| 25 March 2007
IRAN: SWAP SAILORS FOR OUR JAILED SPIES
EXCLUSIVE Captured Britons in Tehran move Mullahs are holding them hostage
By Rupert Hamer Defence Correspondent Rupert.Hamer@Sundaymirror.Co.Uk
HARDLINERS who seized 15 British sailors and marines will demand a "prisoners swap" of Iranian agents to secure their release.
Up to 50 Iranian "spies" have been captured and imprisoned by British troops in secret operations in southern Iraq in the last four years.
Now Government officials are having to consider setting them free to save the eight sailors - one a woman - and seven Royal Marines held by Iranians.
The revelation came as the sailors were interrogated by the Iranian secret service after reportedly being moved to the capital, Tehran.
Meanwhile Foreign Office minister Lord Triesman spent an hour with Iran's ambassador in London demanding their safe return.
The ambassador, Rasoul Movahedian, responded by blaming Naval personnel for straying into "territorial waters".
The sailors, serving on frigate HMS Cornwall, had been on two inflatable speed boats searching for smugglers coming from Iraq.
But shortly after boarding a small boat on the Shatt al Arab waterway on the Iran-Iraq border to check for illegal goods, they were surrounded by Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats. Led away under armed guard, the sailors were taken to a nearby base.
Yesterday Iranian military official General Ali Reza Afshar said the sailors had all "confessed to illegal entry into Iran's waters".
He said: "They are being interrogated and have confessed to aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran's waters."
Afisherman on the Shatt al-Arab who witnessed the incident said the British had definitely been in Iraqi waters.
Last night a senior Whitehall source said: "The freeing of agents will almost certainly be one of Iran's demands - and there certainly will be demands.
"Some have been arrested, some have been repatriated, but many are still being questioned under lock and key.
"Their imprisonment has enraged Iranian leaders - most of whom do not even recognise Iran's borders with Iraq."
Tensions are already high between Iran and the West, as the UN voted last night for tougher sanctions against Iran's plans to go ahead with its programme to create a nuclear weapon.
Plans for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to address the UN in New York yesterday were cancelled amid claims that visas had been obstructed.
A SERIES of suicide bombs targeting Iraqi police ripped through Baghdad yesterday, killing more than 60 people.
In the worst attack, at least 20 died when a lorry full of explosives blew up by a police station in the Dora district. | | |
| 300 is probably the best movie I've seen in years. I also believe it lends to contemporary analogy. If you haven't seen it, watch it. It must be good. It's pissing the Iranians off. But, then again, I suppose it doesn't take much to do that. | | |
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