Sep 24 2007
US Has Iranian Quds Arm Smuggler Detained
It seems the US has caught Iran with their hands in a bloody war in Iraq. The timing of this is not an incidental event. As Iranian President Mahmoud Ima-dum-idjut (Ahmedinejad) travels to the UN in NY it is no coincidence we roll up one of his death merchants in Iraq:
Iran is smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq to be used by extremists against American troops, the US military charged on Sunday.
US military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox told reporters in Baghdad that Iran was shifting sophisticated arms such as “RPG-29s, explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs), 240 mm rockets and Misagh-1 surface-to-air missiles” across its borders into Iraq.
An EFP is a feared roadside bomb which when it explodes emits a white-hot slug of molten copper that can cut through the armoured skins of US military vehicles.
Fox reiterated that Iranian national Mahmudi Farhadi, detained on Thursday in the northern province of Sulaimaniyah, is one of the kingpins in the bomb smuggling operations.
“He is a member of the Ramazan Corps, the Quds Force department responsible for all operations in Iraq,” Fox said.
Is this man really important to Iran, or just a merchant as they claim. Well, it seems they are pretty agitated in the fact we have this person, because they closed their border to the Kurdish region of Iraq as some kind of protest:
Iran closed its border with northern Iraq on Monday in protest at the detention of an Iranian by US troops, a day after it confirmed shelling Iraqi rearbases of separatist Kurdish rebels.
“All five entry points on the border between Iran and the (Iraqi) Kurdish region have been closed by the Iranian authorities from today,” said Jamal Abdallah, spokesman for the autonomous Kurdish regional government.
Iran confirmed it had shut the border following the detention of Mahmudi Farhadi by US forces on Thursday.
The Iranians never responded like this on over our previous detentions, so we must have something here to get them this riled up. The Iraqis are not on our side on this one, so I hope (and suspect) we have the goods on this person. But what is clear is we are finding advanced weapons newly minted from Iran in Iraq. Iran needs to remember we do respond to nations that kill our people, even if they are only providing the gun and not pulling the trigger.
I’m guessing that the Kurds are going to find themselves
on the wrong side on this one.
If they want to play with the Iranians. they’re going to find that
we have issues that cannot be over-ridden.
This conflict is going to re-write the political landscape of
the middle east, America, and a good deal of europe.
They’d better figure it out muy pronto.
They don’t
have a lot of time left.
I also think that Maliki, although elected by the people, does not have the best in mind. Whenever there is a detainment regarding an Iranian, he protests too much.
I also believe that Maliki is twofaced, but knowing that he can’t do without our soldiers help, he grudgingly approves. His visits to Iran, his infiltration of Iranian Agents in Government will pose a problem for some time to come.
Trusting General Petraeus one hundred percent, he will do the right, and necessary thing, and won’t give into blackmail.