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US Troops Going After Iran in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine

January 26, 2007 | By Sniper One |

It’s nice to see us on the offensive with the damn Iranians for a change. They have been poking us with a stick for long enough, it’s time to “Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war”.

The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort.

For more than a year, U.S. forces in Iraq have secretly detained dozens of suspected Iranian agents, holding them for three to four days at a time. The “catch and release” policy was designed to avoid escalating tensions with Iran and yet intimidate its emissaries. U.S. forces collected DNA samples from some of the Iranians without their knowledge, subjected others to retina scans, and fingerprinted and photographed all of them before letting them go.

Last summer, however, senior administration officials decided that a more confrontational approach was necessary, as Iran’s regional influence grew and U.S. efforts to isolate Tehran appeared to be failing. The country’s nuclear work was advancing, U.S. allies were resisting robust sanctions against the Tehran government, and Iran was aggravating sectarian violence in Iraq.

“There were no costs for the Iranians,” said one senior administration official. “They are hurting our mission in Iraq, and we were bending over backwards not to fight back.”

Three officials said that about 150 Iranian intelligence officers, plus members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Command, are believed to be active inside Iraq at any given time. There is no evidence the Iranians have directly attacked U.S. troops in Iraq, intelligence officials said.

But, for three years, the Iranians have operated an embedding program there, offering operational training, intelligence and weaponry to several Shiite militias connected to the Iraqi government, to the insurgency and to the violence against Sunni factions. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director of the CIA, told the Senate recently that the amount of Iranian-supplied materiel used against U.S. troops in Iraq “has been quite striking.”

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    1. Blogs of War on January 26, 2007 8:22

      Bush Gives Troops Authority to Kill or Capture Iranian Operatives in Iraq…

      This is action is long overdue:
      The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East and compel it to …

    2. JammieWearingFool on January 26, 2007 9:45

      Troops Authorized to Kill Iranians in Iraq…

      Well, it’s about time. Granted, this is the Washington Post, so we need to wait a couple of news cycles to see how this pans out. I can just see the nervous libs fretting how we might upset the Islamofascists and create more terrorists. They missed t….

    3. Right Voices » Blog Archive » WaPo: U.S. declares war on Iran in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine on January 26, 2007 14:01

      [...] “7.62mm Justice” ™ » US Troops Going After Iran in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine [...]

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