"Iran troop 'build-up near Iraq border'
BAGHDAD: Iran is building up its troops near the Iraqi border and is shelling the remote northeast borders. Two women were injured in the shelling in the Kurdish area of Iraq for the last three days forcing evacuation of 200 families, Hussein Ahmed, the mayor of Qal'at Dizah town close to the Iranian border said.
He said several thousand Iranian soldiers could also be seen near the border. There was no immediate comment from Tehran or Baghdad on the reports.
Earlier, the Iranian news agency Mehr said an Iranian army helicopter which crashed near the border with northern Iraq had been engaged in a military operation against the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an offshoot of the PKK. Iranian media said six military personnel were killed in the crash, which happened during manoeuvres involving Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Friday (Gulf Daily News August 19)."
And another (another redirect. What gives?):
"US Forces tracking Iranians in Iraq" by Kim Gamel/Associated Press August 19, 2007
BAGHDAD—American forces are tracking about 50 members of an elite Iranian force who have crossed the border into southern Iraq to train Shiite militia fighters, a top U.S. general said Sunday.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, whose command includes the volatile southern rim of Baghdad and districts to the south, said his troops are tracking about 50 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in their area—the first detailed allegation that Iranians have been training fighters within Iraq's borders.
Lynch, citing intelligence reports as evidence of their presence, declined to be more specific and said no Iranian forces have been arrested in his territory:
The military has stepped up allegations against Iran in recent weeks, saying it supplies militants with arms and training to attack U.S. forces. Iran denies the allegations and says it supports efforts to stop the violence.
The Bush administration is moving toward blacklisting Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "terrorist" organization, subjecting at least part of the entity to financial sanctions, U.S. officials said this week.
A decision has been made in principle to name elements of the corps a "specially designated global terrorist" group, but internal discussions continue over whether it should cover the entire unit or only the Guard's Al-Quds force, the most elite and covert of Iran's military branches, which has equipped and trained Muslim fighters outside Iran's borders.
Lynch, whose mission is to block the flow of weapons and fighters into the Baghdad area, said Sunni and Shiite extremists have become increasingly aggressive this month, trying to influence the debate in Washington before a pivotal progress report on Iraq.
He singled out the Shiite extremists as being behind rising attacks using armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, which he said were largely assembled in Iraq from parts smuggled in from Iran. He also noted a marked increase in Iranian-rockets that have been increasingly effective against U.S. bases.
There has been an overall decrease in attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces, as well as civilians, south of Baghdad, but 46 percent of those were being carried out by Shiite extremists, Lynch said:
"The real difference now is we've got to spend as much time fighting the Shia extremists as Sunni extremists."
[This whole piece is just repeating LIE after LIE after LIE after LIE!
The extremists have become more aggressive, and yet attacks are down?
I am sick of the fucking stinkshit lies!!!
This is your American MSM, folks!]
In east Baghdad, a mortar barrage slammed into a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing 12 and wounding 31, police said, and a major battle raged north of the capital where residents of a Shiite city were fighting what police said was a band of al-Qaida in Iraq gunmen.Women and children were among the 12 victims of the mortar attack in eastern Baghdad. Some houses in the neighborhood were damaged, according to police, and witnesses said U.S. helicopters were hovering above the attack site.
Hussein Saadon, 56, an owner of a small minibus station, was soaked in blood after he drove four victims to the hospital. He said the district had been without electricity for several days and the people were suffering in the heat:
"It fills me with pain and anger to see an attack on such poor area where is no presence of police nor army bases or checkpoints."
In Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, police said five townspeople were killed in the early hours of the fighting. In central Baghdad, gunmen driving several cars waylaid a minibus headed for Sadr City, the capital's Shiite enclave, and abducted 15 passengers, police said."
A soldier of the Turkish security forces was killed and two others were wounded in a clash with members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the military said on Saturday.
The General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces said in its website that the security forces confronted a group of PKK militants while patrolling in the mountainous area in Hakkari province in eastern Turkey and warned them to surrender immediately.
But the PKK rebels replied by opening fire on the security forces, thus inflicting the casualties, said the General Staff. The PKK has increased attacks on government troops in southeastern Turkey in recent months, which led to rising Turkish demands for an incursion into northern Iraq to crush the rebels based there.
The group, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30, 000 lives."
[Mostly Kurds slaughtered by Turkey!
And see the prop coming for the next war, reader?
Heading for a dark patch, Amurka, and you may never come out!]
