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| Iranian Arrested In Erbil Connected To Austrian Assasination | |
| 2007-01-17 | |
| Tehran, 17 Jan. (AKI) - One of the five Iranians arrested last week by the US army in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil is wanted in Austria in connection with the assassination of Kurdish leader Andol Rahman Ghassemlu in 1989. Mahommad Jaafari Sharoudi was one of five Iranian officials detained last week in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq. Abdol Rahman Ghassemlu, the historic leader of Iranian Kurds, was killed in an apartment in the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna where he was scheduled to meet a delegation sent by then Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Raf's the "moderate, pragmatic" ayatollah However, shortly after the start of the meeting between a delegation of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and Tehran's delegation, a special unit of the Pasdaran is believed to have stormed the apartment and killed Ghassmlu and his aides.
Persians and embassies and terror - a story centuries old. Austrian sources claim that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was at the time a Pasdaran official, was the logistics' head of the commando group responsible for the Kurdish leader's death while Jaafari Sharoudi was one of the killers. So where are the EU arrest warrants? | |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #5 If the joos can get away with attacking the Liberty, surely we can wack the fucks that were hiding these guys. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-01-17 21:41 |
| #4 a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq. There are multiple factions, but the two likely ones are: The Qods (Jerusalem) Force. Responsible for operations outside Iran, including terrorist operations and training Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups throughout the Gulf, North African, and other Muslim countries. Also the Quods Force does intelligence gathering required for targeting and attack planning. The other Pasadran operations are a branch consisting of Arabic speakers, especially the Hizballah, another branch concentrating on the Kurds (particularly Iraqi Kurds), and another covering the KashmiriÂ’s, the BalouchiÂ’s and the Afghans. There is also the Baseej, or volunteers. They are hired from the ranks of rural Iranians and foreigners, especially Palestinians and Afghans. These are the thugs used to enforce social-laws. Last is the Ashura Brigades.These are made up of Baseej and some loyal Pasadran, and are used during civil unrest. Seems the military and most of the IRGC refused to put down the riots a decade or so back. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-01-17 21:00 |
| #3 Irbil is the largest city in Iraq's Kurdish region. That these IRG goons were operating as part of a quasi-diplomatic mission seems to indicate that Iran and the Iraqi Kurds have come to some sort of mutual understanding. tw, AKI is an Italian-based wire service, so perhaps "faction" wasn't an accurate translation. No doubt the detainees reported to some entity in the IRG's table of organization. |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-01-17 14:26 |
| #2 on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq. This makes no sense to me: how can a named unit of the country's armed services be a "faction"? Surely they were simply following orders? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-17 12:19 |
| #1 perhaps after we're done with him, the Kurds might like a word? And who was the Kurdish |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-17 11:34 |