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| UN: Possible Sanctions Breach As Iran Quds Chief Spotted In Iraq |
| 2014-12-09 |
| [Ynet] United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... sanctions monitors have said photographs taken inside Iraq appear to confirm that the head of Iran's elite military Quds Force, one of Iran's most powerful people, has been in the country in violation of a UN travel ban. Qassem Soleimani, chief of the force which is an overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guards, has been subject to an international travel ban and asset freeze by the UN Security Council since 2007. An Iranian general said in September that Soleimani was in Iran's western neighbor and was playing a critical role in the fight against Sunni Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... turbans. A seven-page report by the UN Panel of Experts on Iran, seen by Rooters on Monday, said Soleimani "has been photographed and videoed on a number of occasions, allegedly in Iraq." "One photograph reportedly shows him near the city of Amerli in northern Iraq after Iraqi forces re-took the city from ISIL (an acronym often used for Islamic State)," it said. The report included a photo purporting to be of Soleimani in Iraq. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 "Red Alert! Red Alert! We have a sanctions breach at map square K57. Get the Belgian containment team out there (if they can get a plane ride from somebody). Note no overtime is currently authorized. That is all." |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-12-09 08:18 |
| #1 Soleimani has been in Iraq for six freaking months...what's the big deal, he's done everything but host a talk show on radio and go on a rock tour. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2014-12-09 00:28 |