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| Debka: IRG Sends Suicide Units Into S Iran/S Iraq |
| 2007-06-28 |
| Early this week, Tehran deployed in southern Iraq and southern Iran contingents of Revolutionary Guards Corps of suicide fighters in anticipation of an American attack on Iranian soil. Those units were posted to fight off a possible US Marines landing in southern Iran. Tehran believes the American force will be assigned with destroying RG bases and infrastructure in the south and sabotaging the oil wells and installations of Iranian province of Khuzestan. The RG fighters were dropped by helicopter in southern Iraq on June 24 and 25. Their task will be to launch suicide attacks on US and British bases and command posts in the region the moment Iran comes under American attack. Also in anticipation of a showdown, Tehran announced Tuesday at only two hours notice the rationing of gas for Iran’s private motorists to 100 liters per month. Protesters started torching gas stations Wednesday. For lack of refining capacity, the oil-rich country imports 40% of its gasoline needs and oil products. Tehran sharply reined in private consumption to free up reserves for the armed forces in case of war and keep power stations and water supplies running in an emergency. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that these two steps in three days attest to the certainty of Iran’s government and military that a military confrontation with the US is around the corner. The British Sun newspaper first disclosed the Iranian troop thrust into southern Iraq Monday, June 25, reporting: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full war with Iran – but nobody has officially declared it.” DEBKAfile’s military experts add: In effect, the Iranian military incursion of Iraq is the fourth military invasion of foreign territory underway in the Middle East at this very moment. None are officially admitted. 1. The Turkish army is fighting Kurdish PKK rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan on the other side of their border. Almost daily, Turkish units backed by tanks, fighter planes and helicopters cross into northern Iraq and battle with the rebels. Washington, Ankara, Baghdad and Irbil blandly ignore this ongoing war. 2. In the second week of the six-week long confrontation between the Lebanese army and the pro-Damascus radical Palestinian Fatah al-Islam near Tripoli, the Syrian army and security service began pushing into the embattled camp reinforcements of hundreds Palestinian fighters, members of groups under their control. These fighters, an estimated 1,600-strong, have since fanned out in clusters in northern Lebanon, the Beqaa Valley, the mountains north of Tripoli and south of Beirut. The Syrian army keeps them well supplied with ammunition, food and fuel. 3. Israeli tank and armored infantry forces conduct ongoing counter-terror operations against Hamas, Jihad Islami and allied Palestinian terrorist groups in southern and northern Gaza. Since the Palestinian Islamist Hamas takeover of Gaza last week, Israeli tanks supported by helicopter and pilot-less aircraft are engaged in ongoing firefights with Palestinian anti-tank units. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 We could do a Debka experiment where we tip them to a piece of "special Intel" and see if they bite. perhaps Mossad "owns them" and uses them to run up their "fictitious Intel".... |
| Posted by: RD 2007-06-28 23:46 |
| #8 FREEREPUBLIC > widespread gas riots reported in Iran. Will say again that POTUS Dubya = USA is entrenching both Regionally and Globally - Iran is facing economics-induced implosion, or in the altern will choose to attack, i.e. initiate or support Terror-World War scenarios involving conventional-nuclear military confrontation amongst the great powers. I see little to nothing in MSM interview and debate transcripts of major or most-likely-to-succeed 2008 POTUS hopefuls that would put confidence in MOUD = Iran's hopes that the USA will leave Iraq before or even after 2008. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-06-28 23:39 |
| #7 And was it the Telegraph? I recall it was the Sun? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-06-28 20:09 |
| #6 The helicopters over the border deal was a circular-sourced story, all going back to one eyewitnes. Abu Mazan aka Abu Abudalluah aka Mahmoud the Rat. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-06-28 20:07 |
| #5 The stuff they are 'square' on is usually available elsewhere. For instance, we recently saw a story about Iranian choppers in S. Iraq. I suppose this is what they are building on here. I am not sure I believe it even though it was in the Telegraph. |
| Posted by: JAB 2007-06-28 19:32 |
| #4 I think their accuracy depends on location. For local stuff, they are pretty square on. Their problems begin when they think they understand what other countries are doing. If they are just reporting it, its fairly accurate, but when they analyze it, they are often wide of the mark. They have been square on about US naval movements, for one thing. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-28 13:31 |
| #3 It's DEBKA ... that pretty much means it is false. I don't understand why DEBKA reports get posted on this site. They are 99% of the time wrong. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-06-28 12:44 |
| #2 I doubt this. The IRG hasn't previously been into suicide attacks. They did help muster a corps (later corpses) of teen age suicide cannon fodder during the 80s in the Iran-Iraq war. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-06-28 12:24 |
| #1 For a millisecond, I read the headline as "IRS Sends Suicide Units" What a relief. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-28 11:49 |