Is he in the US custody, Israeli cistody, on the beach in West Palm Beach??? Who really knows. But an Arab newspaper is saying he is in the US. H/T to Hot Air via AceLast update – 16:17 06/03/2007 Report:…

- The Cat

Make sure to let St. Andrew debrief him, just to make sure, you know, that there’s no inappropriate questioning going on. BECAUSE OF THE HEARTACHE.

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 6, 2007 at 7:23 AM

Heh! I anticipated the exit question here in the last thread about this guy. Now I know I have too much time on my hands.

Apart from strategic matters, General Asghari is reportedly privy to information about two affairs, one of great interest to Israel and the other to the US.

Debkafile, an Israeli website dealing with intelligence matters, reported this week that the CIA was interested in General Asghari because he was allegedly involved in the abduction two months ago of five US soldiers from a compound in Karbala, Iraq. The five were subsequently executed.

Their seizure was reportedly ordered by Iran in order to obtain the release of Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers taken prisoner in Iraq shortly before by the Americans.

According to the website, the US soldiers were seized by a commando team belonging to the Iranian Intelligence Ministry whose members, of various nationalities, had studied in America and were able to penetrate the protected compound because they spoke English.

According to Israeli sources, General Asghari was also commander of the Revolutionary Guard serving in Lebanon in the 1980s, liaising with Hezbollah when a downed Israeli navigator, Ron Arad, was sold by a Lebanese militia commander to the Iranians. The Israeli airman was never heard from again. Israeli officials have long contended that the key to his fate lies in Iran.

So he was a wanted man.

http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/32145.html

Former Iranian officials may be captured
By PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com

WASHINGTON –
Interpol’s legal department has recommended issuing capture notices for five former Iranian officials for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina that killed 85 people, a U.S. lawmaker said Monday.

Argentina’s government had requested the capture notices for eight Iranians, triggering an angry reaction by the Iranian government, which has denied any involvement in the bombing.

In a 16-page decision, the legal department of the international law enforcement group recommended issuing the notices for five suspects but not against former Iranian president Ali Rafsanjany.

The legal affairs office department of Interpol recommended “red notice capture applications` for Ali Fallahijan, the former minister of Intelligence and Security; Ahmad Vahidi, the former commander of the Al-Quds force; Mohsen Rezai, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards; Mohsen Rabbani, the former cultural attache in the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires; and Ahmad Reza Asghari, a former third secretary in the same embassy.

The 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires known as AMIA followed by two years a bombing of the Israeli embassy in the Argentine capital that left 29 dead.