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| Iran says snatched diplomat freed in Iraq |
| 2007-04-03 |
| Surrender Weakness Retardation = US now, We grab top ranking enemy terrorist, Iran grabs random no bodies from OUR area of operations. I got money that says the Iranians will call for more surrenders not less by our act of good faith. The Iranian embassy in Baghdad said on Tuesday that its second secretary, Jalal Sharafi, who had been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital in February had been released. Damm this pisses me OFF The announcement confirmed a report on state television in Tehran, which said Sharafi would return to Iran later Tuesday. "Yes, he was released yesterday," an official at the embassy told AFP but provided no further details. Sharafi, 40, was abducted in Karrada, a predominantly Shiite southeastern district of Baghdad, on February 4 by gunmen dressed in Iraqi army uniforms outside a branch of the Iranian state-owned Bank Melli This is not the Big Wig but the guy that got snatched after our initial first raid on the Iraqi Politico compound. If I remember correctly at first we claimed no knowledge but then later recounted that it was IA forces but we knew of the grab arrest. Still if we gave this guy it was a act of good faith & I no longer doubt we can expect to give the Big Wigs. Pitiful . His abduction came amid increasing tension between Iran and the United States, which arrested five Iranians on January 11 in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on suspicion of aiding and abetting the Iraqi insurgency. But on Tuesday the US military expressed ignorance of Sharafi's release. "We were not holding him, so we do not know about his release," said spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver. Total BS Iran's foreign ministry had claimed that the United States supervises Iraq's defence ministry and was thus at least complicit in the abduction, which it blamed on a group linked to the Iraqi defence department. The US with this act just put a open ever increasing bounty on every US citizen, worker, soldiers head across the world. |
| Posted by:Spereth Sneager5688 |
| #11 I was trying to be subtle (for once) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-03 19:42 |
| #10 a.k.a. Pelosi's snatch |
| Posted by: Captain America 2007-04-03 18:56 |
| #9 I misread the title and thought it was another Pelosi field trip story |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-03 14:13 |
| #8 #3: Full agreement here. Besides: The operative words in the title are: "Iran Says", so I'll guess I'll wait for confirmation from US sources before I start dumping on the US government, this one cries for the 24 Hour/multiple (and much, much oh so very much more reliable sources then the Iranians) more sources treatment. |
| Posted by: Drive By Lurker 2007-04-03 13:44 |
| #7 Nuke'em all. Let radioactive decay sort'em out. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-04-03 13:23 |
| #6 They really need to print some programs for this crapulence. Its getting rather difficult to identify all of the players and their teams. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-03 12:57 |
| #5 I appologize to Spereth Sneager 5688 I dont understand why but when I submitted this it auto filled in your name, I got button happy and submited it before realizing what I did. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2007-04-03 12:35 |
| #4 Off topic: crosspatch, I found the article you suggested yesterday quite thought provoking. Thanks! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-04-03 12:29 |
| #3 I don't think it was any deal. This was a militia that snatched the guy, not us. It was one of the many daily kidnappings that go on in Iraq. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the kidnappers didn't even know who they were snatching at the time. Probably thought it was some Shiite bigwig but didn't realize he was Iranian. It was whatever militia that was holding him that let him go. We didn't let him go and the Iraqi government didn't either. I would say that unless I get evidence otherwise (and the speculation in that article isn't evidence) then I would say this release is completely unrelated to the Brit crewmen being held in Iran. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-04-03 12:11 |
| #2 Is this the backdoor deal? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-03 11:07 |
| #1 Another victim of diplomatic snatch. |
| Posted by: Master of Obvious 2007-04-03 11:01 |