Please feel terrorized by this valuable, sensitive piece of classified information which just happened to be “leaked” by an anonymous “senior U.S. military intelligence officer” in Baghdad.
Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq.
A senior U.S. military intelligence officer in Baghdad described the information Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
The officer on Wednesday provided Iraq’s national security adviser with several lists of the assassination teams’ expected targets. He said the targets include many judges but would not otherwise identify them. Iraq’s intelligence service is preparing operations to determine where and when the special group fighters will enter the country and is to provide an assessment to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Gosh, I wonder if anyone will investigate this unauthorized release of classified intelligence? Or threaten to prosecute or court martial the intelligence officer who talked to the evil liberal media types at the Associated press? Wanna place a bet on it? Nah, me neither.
Still, its pretty scary stuff. One more reason we need to “keep fighting them over there” so none of these Iranian hit squads come to America to kill our Judges. Besides we have enough wingnuts who already want to take on that job opportunity. So that’s another good reason to stay in Iraq — so none of those illegal Iranian immigrants come over here to steal good American hit man jobs. And you know they wouuld.
I almost blogged this ealrier today steven.
my first thought was “Oh, it’s Ron Fournier’s AP? And an anonymous source? Gotta be baloney.”
And you know what? I think it IS baloney.
imho It’s a two-fer:
setting the table for a joint US-Israeli October strike that also provides distraction from the Georgia humiliation on which both were joined at the hip…Israel and US selling arms and the training of Georgian troops.
Focus on the unravelling of Pakistan is a better expenditure of all this energy. It’s under the control of Taliban/AQ. Is that project abandoned or mission accomplished – no need to locate OBL?
The current propaganda, war of words accusing Russia as the aggressor needs to be held in check; including this threat of a nuclear strike .…It’s getting too hot.
Btw, I reading some credible intelligent people positing some scary events could bump up against the election.
imho It’s a two-fer:
setting the table for a joint US-Israeli October strike that also provides distraction from the Georgia humiliation on which both were joined at the hip…Israel and US selling arms and the training of Georgian troops.
Focus on the unravelling of Pakistan is a better expenditure of all this energy. It’s under the control of Taliban/AQ. Is that project abandoned or mission accomplished – no need to locate OBL?
The current propaganda, war of words accusing Russia as the aggressor needs to be held in check; including this threat of a nuclear strike .…It’s getting too hot.
Btw, I reading some credible intelligent people positing some scary events could bump up against the election.
We just report what they tell us.
And that stampeding sound you hear is our trusty corps of stenographers, scrambling to get to their desks to dutifully transcribe the latest in rank fear-mongering from those who brought us the valuable and totally non-political tool, the Terror Alert System. Coming again soon to an area near you. It is Presidential election season again, after all.
Yes, it is their dream, nay, their mission, to do everything they can to help us fight the evildoers. So go stenographers!!! Only you can save us from the evil dark skinned menace lurking around every corner and deliver victory to America!!!
And conveniently ignore the Iraqi government’s close ties with Iran.
More importantly, when does Fantasy Football start back up?
I guess I should get working on that, lol. Priorities, priorities, priorities . . .
Damn, what a coincidence. I was just now printing out all my information for our draft. It is tonight. The beer will be flowing freely, I’m sure. I hope I do a hell of a lot better than last year. Wonder how early someone will take Brett Favre?
Exactly Steven, why would Iran be killing Iraqi soldiers when they are close allies? This does not pass the smell test. Let us not forget the Pentagon propaganda program.
It’s completely ludicrous. If Iran is training any Iraqi death squads it is for the Iraqi make-believe government and no one else. Why on earth would they be training death squads to go after their own puppets?! And in any case, no one NO ONE in Iraq is as beholden to Iran as the make-believe government is.
And by the way, contrary to popular propaganda, while Lebanon’s Hezballah might receive support from Iran, it is quite independent and does not exist to serve Iran’s every wish and order.