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2007-01-30 Iraq

Washington Soon to Release Evidence of Hostile Iranian Activity in Iraq

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Posted by Brett 2007-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Col. Hassam suffers from thinking his sh&t don't stink, but it do. Evil doers are not as smart as they think they are. Say goodbye to Col. Hassam.

Posted by whatadeal 2007-01-30 08:37|| 2007-01-30 08:37|| Front Page Top

#2 1. Im quite sure Ur is in southern Iraq, not north of Baghdad. There is some other geographic fuzziness as well. Id think Debka would at least get that straight

2. We have not heard reports of raids in Sadr City on ammo stockpiles. I presume such raids would come BEFORE any further announcements of intell we got from this guy. Or even before it was announced he was caught. Unless the info was less detailed than im reading Debka to say.

3. The fact that hes being run from over the border doesnt mean we just go ahead and launch an attack over the border. IIUC the world of covert ops doesnt work that way. We did covert ops against the Soviets and friends, and they against us. When you find somebody, you squeeze them for info, then hold them for trade. And you respond with your own covert ops.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-01-30 09:47|| 2007-01-30 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a slam dunk.

Posted by Perfesser 2007-01-30 13:37|| 2007-01-30 13:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Iran is one place I don't care about environmental damage from nukes. A dozen or so should clear things up admirably. If Iran tries to retaliate, then make the entire country glow blue at night. The only place in the entire country I might enjoy seeing is Persepolis, and it would probably survive.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-01-30 15:42|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-30 15:42|| Front Page Top

#5 LH, there's no set procedure or rule-book for these things, as you well know. Could be that very audacious kinetic action directly against IRGC/Quds people and facilities across the border makes sense - I'd say if an opportunity for same presents itself, it DOES make sense. Recall that the IRGC is basically bereft of any experience in being seriously opposed by an advanced adversary. Methinks they'd be quite unable to take the heat if we were to get serious (I don't consider the usual, marginal approach of plink/counter-plink via detentions and interrogations to be serious in this context).

As for intel, I'd say that quite apart from any bad guys we nab in Iraq, we're surely far ahead of where we were a few years ago. Those mass pilgrimages from Iran to Iraq's Shi'a holy cities has got to be the greatest intelligence opportunity we've faced with an adversary in a long, long time. One just hopes that the community wasn't idle WRT recruiting from the large and able Farsi-speaking American community in the past few years, and that we've fully exploited this windfall. I vaguely recall the Iranians forming some sort of pilgrims' "assistance" council a while back, the clear purpose of which was to try to keep an eye on this mass movement of people. Heh. I'd bet they have not been able to get much of a handle on their little problem there.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-30 21:03|| 2007-01-30 21:03|| Front Page Top

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