I am not privy to the details in this particular case, but based on the recent 'trend' of arrests of Iranians in Iraq, it does seem like that we're randomly arresting some Iranian officials visiting/working in Iraq, perhaps in trying to make life a little more difficult for them in Iraq, or send a message that they're not welcome there. Gamesmanship... Kurds denounce U.S. detention of Iranian http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/2...20bcusiraq_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — U.S. troops arrested an Iranian man during an early morning raid on a hotel in this northern Iraqi city Thursday and accused him of helping to smuggle a deadly type of roadside bomb into Iraq . But the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement called the arrest "illegitimate," said the man was a member of a trade delegation that had been invited to Sulaimaniyah by the local government and demanded that he be released. "Actions like these serve no one," the statement said. The United States has detained several Iranians in Iraq in the past year and accused them of training Iraqi insurgents and providing weapons to them. In January it took five Iranians into custody in Irbil , the Kurdish regional capital, and accused them of being members of the Iranian military. They're still being held. Eight other Iranians who were detained last month in Baghdad were quickly released, however. The U.S. statement didn't identify the man except to allege that he is an officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp's elite Quds force. The statement said intelligence indicated that the man had trained foreign fighters in Iraq and provided them with roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs. EFPs fire a molten jet of metal through vehicles' armor and are much feared by U.S. troops. The Kurdish Regional Government said the man was Aghai Farhadi, a member of an economic and commercial delegation from the Iranian governorate of Karmanshah, which borders Iraq's Sulaimaniyah and Diyala provinces. Hassan Baqi , the head of the Sulaimaniyah chamber of commerce, said Farhadi had been in Sulaimaniyah for a week for discussions on opening a border crossing near Panjween,68 miles east of Sulaimaniyah , and other trade-related issues. It was unknown what evidence, if any, American troops recovered when they seized the man at the Sulaimaniyah Palace Hotel . Saifudean Ahmed, Sulaimaniyah's security director, said 20 U.S. soldiers took part in the arrest. Witnesses said helicopters hovered over the scene for two hours. Kurdish officials were quick to distance themselves from the detention. "We had no prior knowledge of the detention of a member of the Iranian commercial delegation," Sulaimaniyah police chief Gen. Zarkar Alia said in a statement. "We heard of the incident from unofficial sources. The operation was carried out without coordination with us, the security forces or the authorities in Sulaimaniyah ." Sulaimaniyah is one of the main cities in Iraqi Kurdistan , which has its own tensions with Iran . The Iranian military has been bombarding mountain villages on the Iraqi side of the border, allegedly to combat Kurdish separatist guerrillas who the Iranians say have taken refuge there. Kurdish and Iraqi officials have demanded that Iran stop the bombardment, saying Iran should fight Kurdish rebels in Iran . (Price reports for the ( Raleigh ) News & Observer. Taha is a McClatchy special correspondent. Leila Fadel in Baghdad contributed to this report.)
It's a shame if they were invited by the Kurds, but they should know we're essentially fighting a proxy war with Iran.
If you can, assuming you read this, you might want to go edit some of your posts in the thread that was just locked. Just some friendly advice. D&D. Keep it Civil!
I think that's partially true. Iran is funding and supporting some elements we are fighting, but we are fighting more than just that. And PS I think you are confusing me with someone else. I'm not Muslim. I'm Christian, and I have discussed that on these boards several times. I wondered if maybe you were confusing me with someone else because you acted like I had a connection with Iran's president.
I bet he doesn't even speak real indian. LIST OF PET PEEVES FOR NEWYORKER 1. Questioning his fake ethnic claims 2. Steam Engines
and its all going to come tumbling down, down, down... there is a saying in the middle east: "an enemy of my enemy is my friend..." atleast until they find it necessary to discard their current "friend" and make new "friends"
Of course, that's probably something you don't ever excercise...unless it's on an American discussion board.
Thanks for showing your true ignorance. There's no such language as "indian" not native or east. You probably think Indians are from Indiana. You're a great demonstration of the failure of our education system....I bet you couldn't locate Indiana on a map of Indiana.
New Yorker, I hope that everything is OK in your real life. You seem to be edgy in every thread you post. Maybe decaf, maybe just taking a break and dealing with whatever has you on edge will help. Perhaps less red meat will do the trick for you. A meltdown is always funny unless there's something really wrong with you. I hope that's not the case.
Oh I will. I was just commenting because you seemed to be on edge lately, and sometimes perhaps in mistake or irrational behavior. I was even told that I was a Muslim, supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and told I had a background that would link me to it. None of that is accurate about me at least, so I was wondering if you were under stress and had confused me with someone else. Especially with your lashing out at others as well. I was just wondering if there weren't important issues in real life that were stressing you out. Best of luck.
i know, you're not so much on the bright side so i forgive you. I doing to you what was done to me. How i was judged to be white for defending Allen. So I wanted to show you what it was like. Of course, it's beyond your comprehension. I'm sorry that you can't understand that. It's ok. Good luck.
But unlike you, I never claimed to be something I wasn't. I'm honestly not trying to discuss this again, because it seems like an area you aren't in the best frame of mind to deal with right now. I honestly enjoy giving people a hard time and not letting them slide when I feel like they are running away from their actions as long as it's in good spirit and they can take it as such. But it doesn't seem like that's the case with you right now. Even in your attempt to show me what it was like, I didn't take it seriously, nor was I bothered by it. I was just confused, because it didn't make any sense.
you are nothign like me, that's true. I know it doesn't make sense. It's not going to make sense, because it's too much for you. I understand that. I don't want to confuse you anymore, so I will stop trying to give you a taste of your own medicine.
