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| Iran Gov't: Assassination of Clerics work of White House Agents |
| 2007-10-09 |
| 2007.10.07- Reports public in Iran indicate that economic and social pressures are the main goals of the terrorist activities and social disturbances in recent weeks. A young cleric who was sent to the town of Khash for the Ramezan ceremonies was killed by the staffing bullets of automatic weapon while climbing the pulpit of a mosque in the town. A week earlier, another young cleric was shot at in a similar manner in the city of Ahvaz, and survived. According to the semi-official Fars news agency two men on motorbikes entered the mosque and killed cleric Mehdi Tavakoli who had been sent from the town of Zahedan in south east Iran. The Islamic Republic News Agency immediately attributed the shooting to “agents supported by the White House.” After last week’s assassination too it was officially announced that the bullets that took the life of sheikh Samir Doorakvandi had come from “Israel and the United States and other invaders of Iraq.” Last year too, after a number of explosions and assassinations shook the city of Ahvaz, intelligence officials arrested a number of suspects on charges of engaging in espionage for foreigners, and executed them. In this latest assassination, the statement that was published on news sites had raised questions such as why must the people of Khuzestan province which has a sea of expensive oil underneath it be not paid as much attention as a single village. Other acts that demonstrate the public discontent occasionally appear on Internet news site, despite the government attempts to suppress them. Just last month a series of kidnappings took place in a school in East of Tehran. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #16 Word, Bh6. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 23:49 |
| #15 wetworx -- good to go. Harder/faster mesays. Also repeal the assassination of foreign leaders law. See how many islamic leaders get their pucker factor up if that happened. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-10-09 22:07 |
| #14 Ptah, you know how I love it when you think aloud, as you do so rarely here these days. Angleton9, you could make an entire best-selling series of novels out of that post, and fuel an adorable conspiracy theory cult as well. May I suggest you get together with our own rjschwarz to write a couple of scripts? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-09 19:09 |
| #13 Iran Gov't: Assassination of Clerics work of White House Agents We only wish. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2007-10-09 15:50 |
| #12 The 1st Squirrel Commando Brigade strikes again! |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-10-09 15:31 |
| #11 the bullets that took the life of sheikh Samir Doorakvandi had come from “Israel and the United States and other invaders of Iraq Must be for Iranian population consumption. Wish that it were only true that we were targeting sources of many of our terrorist problems--the mosques. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-10-09 15:29 |
| #10 [golf clap] Outstanding post, Ptah. Simply outstanding. Not that yours wasn't extreeeemely interesting as well, Angleton9. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 14:02 |
| #9 We can only hope. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-10-09 09:15 |
| #8 Over two years ago, about a year after the successful invasion of Iraq, some 8,000 men who had prior backround in languages and "experience" in the Middle East were culled from files available to the US govt. A large number were older men who had retired from military work in the region, some few were notorious individuals who had spook or worse capabilities. Some were not nice people. Some were people you didnt want to hire for any reason unless you wanted to break several laws. CIA did not get these people, DoD got these people. CIA was not told. Gates knows, but Gates doesnt want any paper to cover any of it. Certainly nothing with his name on it. Rumsfeld gives parties at his home and puts ice in your drink. He is a "private individual" now and he smiles and puts ice in your drink. As it should be in spook work. Let Gambone handle it and then fugedaboutit. These men were invited to come to Washington at govt. expense where they were interviewed. Then about half of these were sent to Eglin, again at govt expense to be interviewed again and given "orientation". They would be hired after that IF they agreed to the conditions. If they signed then they would be run through a training course at Bragg. There would be no allowances for age at Bragg. The only concession is that the older men would be checked by a doctor every day while they went through the same training as the younger men. The attrition rate here was another 60%. Out of 8,000, cut to 4,000 at Eglin the numbers now were down below a thousand. Bragg was harsh in critical appraisal by the instructors, as well, all the men were appraised for leadership skills and character. The appraisals were sometimes frank, loud and very personal. There were two review levels at phases through the training. About a third of the men were rejected due to deficiencys in "interpersonal skills". Sometimes the instructors referred to some of the men being put through this special program as the "Dirty Dozen". Upon graduation from Bragg some were sent to Explosives, some were sent to armory school, and some were sent to Fort Lewis ( not Huachuca) for Intell course work. Most of them didnt need the "refreshers" but it made it all official. Khash is a village, the cleric was machinegunned while he was climbing into the pulpit...its THAT sort of work. ZAHEDAN. There has been quite a bit of "wet work" in and around Zahedan. Have you people been paying attention? The Governor of the Province there was shot in his car as were all of his security detail. A busload of Padaran were blown up by "men on motorcycles" 0ver 300 Pasdaran have been killed around Zahedan over the past year, one at a time here and there steadily. A US Navy gunboat detail is providing security for the smuggling of guns from the Musandam to Jask. These guns are going "somewhere" in Iran. The heroin trade could provide all the cash one would need for special Ops, and you can pay for that with guns. But dont tell my mother. The 13 man teams which were sent into Pakistan with various covers about two years ago, Earthquake Relief and Business enterprises had some friction with the local security and with the other covert activists who smelled a rat. Some of the men with notorious backrounds were spotted and recognized. One was spotted and he seemed to be running a "trucking Company". His trucks went all over pakistan and Iran. How convenient. He had been trucking supplies into the Earthquake regions who needed help in rebuilding. But he also seemed to be sending several trucks down into the Baluch, Afghan, Iran triangle...to Zahedan. The Poppy crop in Kandahar can be sent to the refineries in pakiland and then distributed for all the happy souls with needles in their arms in Teheran. And the 300,000 Iranian prostitutes exported every year have to be shipped out to somewhere..Karachi seems to be convenient. Then Bush passed through Karachi ( remember that ) and the teams with various covers vanished that very day. Somebody push a button. What IS that smell? They are all in Iran now. Nobody will believe this BS, right? Good, I wouldnt want to deceive anyone. If you see Zahedan in the news every now and then, remember to eat your popcorn. |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2007-10-09 08:58 |
| #7 Ptah, "clerics employees of the state, and thus legitimate targets" I figure it's more like the state administrators are employees of the clerics. Doesn't that mean that, since they are a religion, they are not legitimate targets? (channeling liberal academicians.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-10-09 08:58 |
| #6 A young cleric who was sent to the town of Khash for the Ramezan ceremonies was killed by the staffing bullets of automatic weapon while climbing the pulpit of a mosque in the town. A week earlier, another young cleric was shot at in a similar manner in the city of Ahvaz, and survived. A pity about the cleric shot last week. That he survived. Every time there's a big debate between Zenster et Al. about how to handle Islamism, I keep coming back to THIS as the only viable option between supine surrender and the "Nuke 'em all" attitude. It is relatively cheap costwise, requires the use of highly trained young men motivated to live a James-Bond like life (of which we have an abundance raised from childhood), AND has the added benefit of being targeted. I mean, how much of ANY language do you need to know to ID a cleric who screams "DEATH TO AMERICA!" or "DEATH TO ISRAEL!" To those objecting to Assassination as a means of warfare, consider that assassination is the most moral method for eliminating a leadership that, if done efficiently, minimises the number of deaths of civilians. JDAMs and hellfires, while satisfying in their own way, are not moral enough to handle the gibbering coward who surrounds himself with under-age human shields, as do many terrorist leaders in Gaza. I can hear the liberal asshat demanding "Would I like it if my pastor was assassinated?" Funny how quickly that liberal would applaud and rejoice if a bigoted christian pastor calling for the execution of homosexuals were beaten, arrested, or assassinated. If my pastor was spouting sermons advocating Taquyya, dhimminitude, the monkyness or pigness of jews and Christians, and demanding the deaths of Jews and Americans to pay for the humiliation of being more advanced than the Muslims, well I would EXPECT him to be a target of assassinations. Would I like it if my President was Assassinated? No, but that's a risk he took on when he ran for president, and a risk I expect him to take measures to eliminate or mitigate. And I am sure some idiot is going to call this Terrorism. Terrorism is targeted killing of CIVILIANS. Leadership and soliders ARE NOT CIVILIANS, and so killing them is not terrorism. It's called WARFARE. (Which is why I was not upset as much with the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 than I was with the attack on the Twin Towers: The Pentagon is a legitimate target, while the Twin Towers, and all four of the aircraft used, were not.) Given the fact that Islam is a STATE religion, that makes the clerics employees of the state, and thus legitimate targets. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2007-10-09 08:02 |
| #5 I certainly hope so... |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2007-10-09 06:48 |
| #4 Yeah, it's the Whitehouse. It couldn't be just another case of muzzie on muzzie violence. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-10-09 02:03 |
| #3 Keyboard is playing tricks on me: afte certin point = after certain point. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-09 00:49 |
| #2 Mullahs would definitely need some WH sponsored wetwork. But in this case, looks like Baluchi Liberation Front and Back enjoys offing clerics as they come. White House Agents? Somebody has to be blamed, especially when clerics are dropping like flies. Admitting that it is BLF&B's doing would not look too good for mullahcracy, afte certin point. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-09 00:48 |
| #1 Assassination of Clerics work of White House Agents And their—as usual worthless shitheaded Islamic—point is? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-09 00:09 |