That's what the headlines should read; however, I get this instead in AmeriKa's War Dailies:
"US frees 9 Iranians in Iraq in possible gesture to Tehran" by Lauren Frayer/Associated Press November 10, 2007
BAGHDAD - In a possible break in the US-Iranian standoff in Iraq, the US military yesterday released nine Iranians no longer deemed a threat, including two accused of membership in an elite force suspected of arming Shi'ite militias.
The handover - planned for several days - still leaves at least three high-profile Iranians in US custody and does not significantly ease the many disputes between Washington and Tehran.
Didn't think it would.
A US military statement issued yesterday:
"[The nine Iranians were released after a] careful review of individual records to determine if they posed a security threat to Iraq, and if their detention was of continued intelligence value. All nine individuals were determined to no longer pose a security risk."
Took 11 fucking months to determine that, huh? What's all the $$$$ for then?
In Tehran, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said he hoped the remaining three Iranians arrested in Irbil would also be freed, calling their capture an abduction. The US military continues to hold 11 Iranians, including the three others from the Irbil raid, said Major Brad Leighton, an American military spokesman in Baghdad.
Mohammad Ali Hosseini, speaking of the nine released yesterday, told state radio:
"From the beginning . . . we said they were innocent. Now the US military has confirmed it."
He also said Tehran was open to more discussions with US and Iraqi diplomats, overseen by Iraqi envoys.
Trying to do the right thing, but asshole USrael... what can you do?
At least 20 people were killed or found dead across Iraq yesterday, police and morgue officials said. Among them was a Sunni tribal leader, Fayez al-Obeidi, who had partnered with US and Iraqi security forces to oust Al Qaeda in Iraq from his neighborhood near Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad."
Oh, that's right, there is still a war on. Lost a friend, but gained success!
And look at the NYT headline:
"U.S. Frees 9 Iranians Linked to Rebels" by CARA BUCKLEY
Sigh! Could the fucking thing be ANY MORE DECEPTIVE?!
Ummm, NYT, actually THEY AREN'T!!!!! See why I get sick of their shit?!!!!!
BAGHDAD, Nov. 9 — Nine Iranians held on suspicion of aiding insurgents were released from American custody in Baghdad early on Friday, according to the United States military.
Two of the freed men were among five Iranians arrested in January in a raid on an Iranian office in the northern city of Erbil. At the time the military accused the five Iranians of working with Shiite extremist groups, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice later said that President Bush had authorized that raid and others.
Ladies and gentlemen, WE'RE at WAR!
The Iranian ambassador here, Hassan Kazemi Qumi, said on Friday that the two released men who had been arrested in the January raid were Iranian government employees, and that the seven others released were civilians. He denounced their detentions as illegal and said 25 more Iranians remained in American custody, including six government employees.
So the stinking US still has 25 hostages, huh?
I'm sick of the stinking hypocrisy and lies!
But the American military put the number of Iranians remaining in its custody at 11, and gave no hint if they might be released. It also said one of the freed men had been held since November 2004, when he was spotted in Falluja, fleeing the scene of a mortar attack. Another, it said, had been captured in 2005, in a raid in Ramadi.
I don't believe the lying AmeriKans anymore!
Elsewhere in Iraq, 16 civilians and officials were killed in separate attacks, the police said, including Sheik Faiez al-Ubaidi, the leader of the Awakening Council near Khalis, in the strife-ridden province of Diyala. The sheik belonged to a tribe that declared war on Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni extremist group that American intelligence agencies say has foreign leadership, and managed to rid several villages of its members, officials and local people said.
Good-bye, friend! Sorry we got ya killed!
He died after a suicide bomber slipped into his house after sunset, when the electricity was out, and detonated the bomb, police officials said. The blast killed two other people and wounded one, the American military said.
That just doesn't smell right to me.
Maj. Brad Leighton, a spokesman for the American forces, said the sheik was considered a “valuable friend” and “influential supporter” in efforts to quash the insurgency:
“Whenever we lose an influential Iraqi leader that supports reconciliation in our fight against Al Qaeda, it’s a blow.”
Really?
See:
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
And did I mention the Pentagon's press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon and Langley?
"Sniper Sentenced on 2 Charges"
An Army sniper acquitted of premeditated murder charges in the killings of three Iraqi men was sentenced yesterday to time served in an Army prison cell, the equivalent of 138 days, as punishment for his conviction on two lesser offenses, according to a member of the military present at his court-martial in Baghdad.
The sniper, Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley, 27, who had been convicted at Camp Liberty on Thursday of wrongfully placing an AK-47 rifle with the remains of one of the three men and of disrespecting a superior officer, was also demoted to sergeant and given a general letter of reprimand, the military service member said, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Army had not officially released the sentence."
Oh, that would be the Asymmetrical Warfare Group that the commanders were pushing.
As usual, some grunt takes the fall for war crimes at the top!
