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| Bush Authorized Iranians' Arrest in Iraq, Rice Says |
| 2007-01-13 |
| Hmmmmm - looks like the ROE have changed ..for everybody A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. “There has been a decision to go after these networks,” Ms. Rice said in an interview with The New York Times in her office on Friday afternoon, before leaving on a trip to the Middle East. Ms. Rice said Mr. Bush had acted “after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity” among Iranians in Iraq, “and increasing lethality in what they were producing.” She was referring to what American military officials say is evidence that many of the most sophisticated improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.’s, being used against American troops were made in Iran. Ms. Rice was vague on the question of when Mr. Bush issued the order, but said his decision grew out of questions that the president and members of his National Security Council raised in the fall. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #10 |
| Posted by: doc 2007-01-13 09:54 |
| #9 Does diplomatic status apply when you are waging war? Yes. Embassy personnel from the enemy state are usually removed from their compound and kept in secure and comfortable quarters until such time as neutral transportation home can be arranged. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-13 08:42 |
| #8 raise the cost to the United States for its intervention in Iraq, in hopes of teaching Washington a painful lesson about the perils of engaging in regime change And as soon as they teach us this lesson, they'll go back to being good neighbors? Somebody's been eatin' too many Dreamsicles. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-01-13 06:51 |
| #7 “I just want the record to show — and I would like to have a legal response from the State Department if they think they have authority to pursue networks or anything else across the border into Iran and Iraq — that will generate a constitutional confrontation here in the Senate, I predict to you,” Mr. Biden said. At least it's now on the record which side Biden's on. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-01-13 06:37 |
| #6 ed: Word. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-13 06:19 |
| #5 I seem to also recall something about real diplomats and 444 days. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-01-13 01:29 |
| #4 That Iranian official was ordered released, by Ms. Rice among others, after Iran claimed he had diplomatic status Does diplomatic status apply when you are waging war? If that is the case give our diplomats UW and weapon training and let them loose on our enemies. If they get captured they get a "free get out jail card" |
| Posted by: Dunno 2007-01-13 01:21 |
| #3 The ROE will have changed when SOF are directing airstikes against Persians on behalf of the Azeri, Balochi, Kurdish, Turkmen, Luri Liberation Fronts. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-01-13 01:14 |
| #2 Article: Administration officials now describe Iran as the single greatest threat the United States faces in the Middle East, though some administration critics regard the talk about Iran as a diversion, one intended to shift attention away from the spiraling chaos in Iraq. Iran is about to get nukes and talk about it is a diversion? These guys have been navel-gazing for far too long. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-01-13 00:29 |
| #1 Even if a year+ later then it should have been, this is very welcome news. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-01-13 00:17 |