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2007-03-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Defector spied on Iran for years - report

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Posted by phil_b 2007-03-11 06:58|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iranian military professionals have never been happy with Basij' intrusions on their affairs. And they would be well aware of the billions stolen from the Treasury by the Ayatollahs. That sick system cannot yield refined gasoline or diesel. But as long as the clerics get their tax (khumus) they could care less about economic decline.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-11 08:19|| 2007-03-11 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe I know now how the Joooooooooos knew where those medium range missiles were.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-11 08:24|| 2007-03-11 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 some numbered bank accounts would have been nice

also names of Persian operators in the West

probably didn't have those however since he was closer to the military end of things

Posted by mhw 2007-03-11 09:57|| 2007-03-11 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Meanwhile, a Shiite has propagated a plan for multi-culturalist subversion of the West. First they build segregated communities where they speak Arabized English, and remain relatively passive until they have the numbers, then its final jihad. These savages trampelled the Byzantine, Persian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Indian Empires.

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Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-11 10:30|| 2007-03-11 10:30|| Front Page Top

#5 And he was not alone. What Iran really needs is a Stalin-style purge of its officer corps.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-11 10:53|| 2007-03-11 10:53|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-03-11 10:57|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-03-11 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Article: He probably was working for Mossad but believed he was working for a European intelligence agency, an Israeli defense official was quoted by the Times as saying.

Excellent. A false flag operation. Now that he's come in from the cold, he probably doesn't care, anyway.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-11 11:54|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know about you guys but I have a odd feeling that this was a well planned snatch and grab of a very high ranking officail. He disappears in Turkey then all the sudden his family disappears. I remember awhile back of US interrogators using certian news articles placed in the dorms of AQ at Guantonomo.

Imagine if you were a Iranian hop general just got yoked up all the sudden news, papers, everything show you as a traitor sell out confirmed by your family showing up. You can either work with the infedels fully or they may just accidentally leak to the Quds force were you or your family are being held.

You better have a dam good cover story if you are going to go around snatch and grabbing top leadership of a foreign nation in todays PC world.

Posted by C-Low 2007-03-11 13:08|| 2007-03-11 13:08|| Front Page Top

#9 C-Low: I don't know about you guys but I have a odd feeling that this was a well planned snatch and grab of a very high ranking officail. He disappears in Turkey then all the sudden his family disappears. I remember awhile back of US interrogators using certian news articles placed in the dorms of AQ at Guantonomo.

Imagine if you were a Iranian hop general just got yoked up all the sudden news, papers, everything show you as a traitor sell out confirmed by your family showing up. You can either work with the infedels fully or they may just accidentally leak to the Quds force were you or your family are being held.

You better have a dam good cover story if you are going to go around snatch and grabbing top leadership of a foreign nation in todays PC world.

Very, very unlikely. Effective police states keep their minions in line by holding family members hostage. If a senior official is out of the country, his family members can't leave. That way, if he defects, they can wreak their vengeance on his family, up to, and including, executing them en masse. His family members probably got out by bribing various border officials, who are likely to have not have recorded their departure from Iran (the better to not leave any tracks for what might be the capital offense of helping a spy to defect).

The problem with a kidnap scenario is that many committed patriots would rather die than give up the goods. And if the family wasn't going along, they could always return to Iran and reveal that they (and the family patriarch) were kidnapped. Which would be a green light for Iran to start kidnapping senior American officials.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-11 22:41|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-11 22:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Zhang

I actually agree and withdraw my speculation. When I posted that I was running off the info from yesterday and not the added facts that this guy had not just immediate, but multiple family members pulled out. To scoop that many people at the sametime in a police state would be impraticle, just getting that many people together in one place for voluntary extraction is a feat in and of itself.

On the rest of your guess, true a patriot would not just give up the goods BUT the muslim world is a patriarch family center belief. The Dictators of the region are very very effective at breaking radicals by capturing threating thier family lines. Some even use family members to pressure surrender of radicals. I would agree that those type tactics are dirty but you cannot refute thier effectivness, and we do live in a dirty world.

As far as returning home to refute he was a sell out after this media blitz, right the Mullahs would forgive him then execute him just in case.

Posted by C-Low 2007-03-11 23:09|| 2007-03-11 23:09|| Front Page Top

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