Comments on: Big news: U.S. arrests leader of breakaway Mahdi Army faction for Karbala raid

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Unreal: U.S. trades top Iranian-backed Iraqi terrorist for British hostage

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:28:19 +0000

[...] four of them after they were kidnapped, bound, and shot in the head like animals. U.S. troops caught up to Khazali two months later and captured him and his brother; the ID cards of several dead American soldiers [...]

By: Strangelove » Light it up: Its time to end Iran’s proxy war

Strangelove » Light it up: Its time to end Iran’s proxy war — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:38:02 +0000

[...] Iran has been fighting a proxy war against us since 1979. Who are the proxies? Terrorists – Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad – all of these organizations received training and/or funding via Iran. In addition, Iran supports al Sadr’s Mahdi Army and al Qaeda. Michelle Malkin reports on the latest blood on the Iranian’s hands. Given the spectacular success Iran has had with building a Shiite proxy in Lebanon, it only stands to reason that they’d want their new proxies in Iraq to benefit from their expertise. Call it “cross-pollination.” As for Khazali, regular HA readers will remember our posts about him in March and, more recently, Petraeus naming him as the prime suspect in the same Karbala raid that this turd Daqduq was evidently involved in. From the very beginning, the unusual professionalism and subterfuge of that operation — the attackers spoke English and wore stolen American uniforms — had the military suspicious of an Iranian hand in it. [...]

By: The road out of Iraq.

The road out of Iraq. — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:24:20 +0000

[...] The Karbala raid is suspected of having been an Iranian operation, possibly conducted in retaliation for the seizure of five of their

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » You don’t say: U.S. captures top Hezbollah bombmaker in Iraq

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:22:44 +0000

[...] Given the spectacular success Iran has had with building a Shiite proxy in Lebanon, it only stands to reason that they’d want their new proxies in Iraq to benefit from their expertise. Call it “cross-pollination.” As for Khazali, regular HA readers will remember our posts about him in March and, more recently, Petraeus naming him as the prime suspect in the same Karbala raid that this turd Daqduq was evidently involved in. From the very beginning, the unusual professionalism and subterfuge of that operation — the attackers spoke English and wore stolen American uniforms — had the military suspicious of an Iranian hand in it. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Red on red in Diyala province

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Red on red in Diyala province — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:41:05 +0000

[...] Back in Baghdad, Maliki appears less concerned with the fact that sectarian killings are inching back up towards pre-surge levels than with the fact that Iyad Allawi’s still trying to replace him. Allawi is a Sunni puppet, he insists, conveniently neglecting to mention that (a) Allawi’s a (secular) Shiite and (b) the reason he has Sunni support is because Maliki himself is suspected of being an Iranian puppet. And speaking of which, read Bill Roggio’s analysis of what U.S. troops have been doing in Sadr City lately. The Khazali network should be vaguely familiar to you: I’ve written about them several times, first when Khazali himself was arrested back in March and several times since in connection with trafficking in EFPs and pepetrating the Karbala operation in which five U.S. troops were kidnapped and killed. Roggio says they’re being supplied by another network — the Sheibani network, which See-Dub wrote about during my vacation. What’s the common thread between them? As though you need to ask: Iran’s Qods Force has set up the Qazali and Sheibani networks to provide for plausible deniability. “Military intelligence officers describe their Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps counterparts’ strategy as one of using “nonattributable attacks” by proxy forces to maximize deniability” Time noted in 2005. Qods has established their Iraqi networks to be manned by Iraqi operatives, which provides a degree of separation from the Iranian regime… [...]

By: All departments of state are the same, I guess « Likelihood of Success

All departments of state are the same, I guess « Likelihood of Success — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:23:45 +0000

[...] Allah P. writes: Blair’s talking tough but his foreign ministry people are doing their best to downplay it, going so far as to pretend that the kidnapping is an isolated territorial dispute . . . They nabbed 15 members of the British military one day before a vote on UN sanctions and two days after the AP dropped a bombshell about Mahdi Army involvement with the Revolutionary Guard, and yet the Foreign Office would have us believe that one has nothing to do with the others? Seriously? [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hostage update: British ambassador to Iran demands to see sailors

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:30:37 +0000

[...] They nabbed 15 members of the British military one day before a vote on UN sanctions and two days after the AP dropped a bombshell about Mahdi Army involvement with the Revolutionary Guard, and yet the Foreign Office would have us believe that one has nothing to do with the others? Seriously? [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Sailors held as bargaining chips for Iranians captured by U.S. in Irbil?

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:40:28 +0000

[...] The fears about transparency are plausible: just yesterday I mentioned that attacks involving EFPs (which the Quds Force is suspected of supplying to Shiite militias) are way down over the past few months, and on Thursday came the bombshell about the roll-up of that “rogue” Mahdi Army network that’s allegedly on Iran’s payroll and connected to EFP trafficking. The same network is suspected of having carried out the Karbala raid on U.S. troops in late January, which may have been Iran’s first attempt to retaliate for our Irbil operation. If these “rogue” JAM guys (who probably aren’t rogue) are as deeply involved with Iran as the news stories have alleged, then yeah, no surprise that the mullahs would be alarmed by news of their detainment. The problem is, the timing’s a little off. The first arrests of the Mahdi Army network supposedly happened on Monday, March 19, a day after the emergency meeting described here. Maybe the reports about the dates are slightly off? Or maybe Iran got tipped off the day before the arrests that they were coming? Or maybe this is all garbage? I rehash, you decide! Although it’s worth noting as we go forward that there were rumors of an Iranian plan to kidnap western personnel earlier this week — on March 18, in fact, the very same day the emergency meeting supposedly went down. Eeeenteresting. [...]

By: driller

driller — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:42:51 +0000

I assume that after today’s vote all the Democrats would prefer al-Sadr’s smile to those just below ( Michelle, Valarie and Emma). Or maybe the women won’t mind under their burka, but you can still smell their perio breath through that mesh screen.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » EFP attacks on U.S. troops down “dramatically” since December

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:35:37 +0000

[...] That makes sense. According to WaPo, those Iranians were caught with “detailed weapons lists, documents pertaining to shipments of weapons into Iraq, organizational charts, telephone records and maps, among other sensitive intelligence information,” including and especially information about importing EFPs. The problem is … we let them go. They were sent back to Iran before New Year’s. Maybe the arrest put the fear of God into them, or maybe it was that raid in Irbil in January where we captured five members of the Quds Force that really cut the flow of EFPs. We do seem to have made this a priority lately — that not-so-rogue “rogue” Mahdi Army network that we busted earlier this week was also targeted for trafficking in EFPs. [...]

By: driller

driller — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:30:10 +0000

All the good dentists in Iraq are wearing US BDU’s. I’m sure if al-Sadr would make an appointment, they would be happy to “treat” him.

By: Wade

Wade — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:22:14 +0000

Are there any dentists in Iraq?

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:44:05 +0000

Most of the violence against UK forces in Basra is being engineered by Iranian elements, a British Army colonel based in the southern Iraqi city says 'Iran link' to violence in Basra

By: driller

driller — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:19:54 +0000

Nice teeth Sadr. Gotta love Islamofacist dental hygiene!

By: darwin

darwin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:43:07 +0000

Is it just me or could al-Sadr use a couple of cases of Orbit gum? Oh … and about six months of dental work.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:16:48 +0000

Limerick on March 23, 2007 at 1:14 AM

BOOM!

Followed by ……… “ouch”!

Welcome to the “Surge”!

By: Limerick

Limerick — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:14:37 +0000

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_M1028,,00.html

Maybe this is why Sadr skeedattled. I just talked to a man who sent 24 down range. He said they were the best thing since toilet paper. Welcome back to Picketts charge.

By: Limerick

Limerick — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:41:07 +0000

Well since the de Gaulle is there there are only three choices: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran. Best guess on my part would be that order.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:35:38 +0000

Captain Louis Renault: “Round up the usual suspects”

Rick: Cue it up: “Play Sam, Play, Play it again, if it was good enough for her, it is good enough for me, Play …” As Time Goes By”

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:25:28 +0000

The French story must really be confusing for the Dems here in the U.S. They look up to the French. It’s like some strange bizarro world. What are the Dems to do?

Seriously, what are the French doing? I can’t imagine this will get positive press in France. Working militarily alongside the warmongering Americans?

By: Limerick

Limerick — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:02:09 +0000

Cap’n Crunch….you can tell by the color.

By: Bad Candy

Bad Candy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:01:18 +0000

Am I the only one who looks at that pic of al-Sadr and sees Cartman dressed as the IRS guy trying to get his ten bucks back in ‘Scott Tenorman Must Die’?

…Anyway, hopefully we can pull good intel from out raids.

By: major john

major john — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:39:47 +0000

When are we going to capture and torture Sadr?

Tim Burton on March 22, 2007 at 10:12 PM

What is that?

By: thedecider

thedecider — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:33:22 +0000

Hang ‘em High and make my day. Love me some Clint Eastwood movies.

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:12:49 +0000

When are we going to capture and torture Sadr?