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Reports about Ali Reza Asghari have been wildly conflicting, and this may be just another one that is hotly controverted, but anyway, here it is. By Yoav Stern and Reuters in Haaretz:
The Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Turkey last month left his country with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.A former colleague of Ali Reza Asghari, 63, told the newspaper, which is published in London, that the document also cites groups such as the Mahdi Shi'ite militia operating in Iraq.
Asghari, a retired general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, went missing in what may have been a Western intelligence operation. Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said in an unsourced report that he was involved in Iran's nuclear program. If so, he would be a major asset for Western or Israeli interrogators.
Ram Igra, a retired official with Israel's Mossad espionage agency, said this week that Asghari is best known to Israel as the "founder" of Hezbollah.
Igra said that before Asghari took up the Defense Ministry post, he had been a commander with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the main sponsor Hezbollah.
UPDATE: "Missing Iranian Minister is Cooperating with Western Intelligence - Source," from Asharq Alawsat, with thanks to Judy.
Posted by Robert at March 9, 2007 4:56 PM
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"with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah"
...From time to time US soldiers in Iraq have captured Iranian agents in Iraq and confiscated similar documents...dhimmicrats and the anti-war crowd have downplayed such announcements a BUSH plot/no substance.....yada yada yada....
...I hope this turns out to really raise some eyebrows,...but time will tell... but , I will admit I like it so far......
If true...maybe this is one Muslim who is tired of all the sensless killing perpertated by Islam...and he is brave enough to reveal the truth....
I will say an extra prayer tonight.
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at March 9, 2007 5:07 PM
If this story is true about that iranian ex general, time will tell.
Posted by: callmeinfidel at March 9, 2007 5:08 PM
I expect to see my un-earthing news to arrive with the 21,500 soldiers we're sending there; we gotta put a dent in this crap of terrorism !
Posted by: Jeff at March 9, 2007 7:16 PM
What brand of corn flakes or Wheaties does Ahmadinajad eat for breakfast.
And, by the way, where are the research labs and the nuke development sites.
Well done.
Posted by: dgene at March 9, 2007 7:41 PM
No one realizes yet this story is being published, because it is a prelude to the coming war.
This Iranian has been a US asset since Khomeini seized power. He was helping to release the IDF soldier with bribes whom Hezbollah kidnapped and probably sold to Iran.
The US being silent as well as Israel hinting about it in the press brings this deduction.
This means war and there are not going to be any whining Joe Wilson nor Valerie Plame coups in this one against President Bush.
Posted by: Lame Cherry at March 9, 2007 8:06 PM
And if this official can prove the Iranian link to terror, then what? This has been an open secret for a long time-it won't prod anyone to do anything more than already has been done to Iran-which has been next to nothing thus far.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at March 9, 2007 10:11 PM
Any intelligence agency spook or State Department policy wonk who insists that only now do we have the smoking gun required to hold Iran accountable for sponsoring terrorism needs to be pummeled into unconsciousness with their own briefcase.
The sole assets that Asghari can bring to the table are locations of Iran's nuclear weapons R&D facilities. Only the UN or France could maintain a straight face while demanding that further proof was needed to establish Iran's role in propagating international terrorism.
Dr. John Lewis is absolutely correct in identifying Iran as the nexus of all that is wrong about Islam. Despite Saudi Arabia's financing and Pakistan's tutelage of terrorists, Iran is radical fundamentalist Islamic theocracy personified.
Demolishing Iran's WMD program, along with its military infrastructure and governmental thugocracy sends the absolute most critical message that America can possibly transmit to the MME (Muslim Middle East):
TOTALITARIAN ISLAM MUST GO!
at March 9, 2007 11:05 PM
My guess is that if we prove conclusively that Iran is behind all of the choas in Iraq, how would convince someone like Pelosi. I mean have you ever looked at her in the face? The truth has no meaning to her or her ilk.
If we videoed Iranians leading Iraquis it wouldn't make a shade of difference.
It's time to light up the sky over the Middle East. We are going to be the bad guys anyhow. Might as well live up to our reputation!
Posted by: credit man at March 9, 2007 11:59 PM
QUOT:
The Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Turkey last month left his country with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.
Like anyone thought otherwise. The US attempt to establish something like democracy in Irag is doomed. The sooner the high command understand it the better. Save lives of soldiers. No one can win a guerilla war, not even SS was able to do it in Russia, no matter how cruel they were. And US Army is not SS, no matter how many war crimes there are (and there are war crimes, like on any other war, army is not free of freaks just like society as a whole). The only way for US to save the face is to withdraw leaving the sunni and shia to cut each others throat. Just establish the presence around strategic areas like ones of oil mining and production and answer with heavily armed response on every attemped to mess with the oil supply. That would be easy since the country in total chaos.
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at March 10, 2007 2:30 AM
Sounds great. But one wonders if this might be another Rudolph Hesse type of episode. He was No. 3 to Hitler and "defected" to England early in WWII. He wanted peace - Germany's piece to be all of Europe. Is Asghari bring a "peace" message from the moulahs, like Hesse?
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/hess-bio.htm
Not sure whether Hesse ever had any intel value to the Allies.
at March 10, 2007 4:54 AM
"No one can win a guerilla war,"
THe US won what was essentially a guerilla war when we defeated the British...A majority of the American attacks on British troops were of the hit and run tactics that make guerilla fighting so effective...hit em fast,run,wear em down, make em guess where you are...disorient them enough where your stronger forces can come in and clean house...
The new Americans waged a guerilla war and won...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 10, 2007 11:09 AM
""No one can win a guerilla war,"
the Viet Cong waged a guerilla war and by doing so encouraged Americans in the US to begin protesting against the American troops who were fighting them...The American anti war movement became so strong, the troops were brought home...I would consider the a guerilla war victory.....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 10, 2007 11:12 AM
"""No one can win a guerilla war,"
IN the Boer war in South Africa, the Boers fought a guerilla style war against the British. The war caused Britain to send 500,000 troops, it latest several years...in the End, Britain retained control but lost about 28,000 troops and even paid the Boers several million dollars....THe British empire began to dissipate and eventually left. It took about 50 years before the British finally gave up and granted independenct to several British colonies...BUt it was the Boer war that started the British decline....I would call that a Guerilla war victory...(even though it took 50 years to boot the British out)...
The guerillas simply made it too costly for Britian to stay in control....
Incidently this is exactly what the Muslims hope to do the US.. wear em out, make it too costly to stay...straight out military campaigns will not work, but guerilla style attacks will...
at March 10, 2007 11:26 AM
"The fact is that in guerilla warfare the struggle no longer concerns the place where you are, but the place where you are going. Each fighter carries his warring country between his bare toes.
Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961) "
with this thought in mind, apply it to the Islamic terrorists.....
at March 10, 2007 11:30 AM
Turn off their Lights, Water, Phones, Sewers. with enough Briges thrown in to make getting arround difficult. Then they can "Guerilla Style" all between themselfs. Let them fight between each other over who gets the next Drink or Meal.
Obviously, sending "Aid" afterward isn't in the Budget.
We can render Irans Nuclear Program Inert by starving it of the Electricity it needs to develope.
Better to show our displeasure with Iran to as many of them as possible, Reducing Irans capability befor chasing and wasting time Bombing Rabbit Holes.
There was alot of Shock and Awe that fell on empty targets. No point wasting the effort repeating old mistakes.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at March 10, 2007 3:08 PM
"Turn off their Lights, Water, Phones, Sewers. with enough Briges thrown in to make getting arround difficult. Then they can "Guerilla Style" all between themselfs. Let them fight between each other over who gets the next Drink or Meal."
I like the way you think, flowerknife_us.
Posted by: Zenster at March 11, 2007 3:37 AM
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