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Iran Threat to Kill American Generals Is Real, Experts Say
2010-12-15
EXCLUSIVE: A leader of IranÂ’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is promising that American generals will be targeted and killed in revenge for last week's attacks on two of his country's leading nuclear scientists -- a threat Middle East experts say must be taken seriously.

In a speech published in Farsi at an Iranian website linked to the Revolutionary Guard, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi was quoted as saying that “the filthy Americans and the Zionists should not think that with killing our scientists, they can divert our nation from its path of Jihad and scare us.”

He continued with a specific threat: “We will mark the hanging sites of the American and Zionist generals and we will identify which hanging was in retaliation for the blood of our great martyr Shahriari.”
Posted by:DarthVader

#10  Either way, I sure wouldn't want to get into melee with Petraeus. I think he would still be able to whip most anyone.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-12-15 23:09  

#9  Military families can be different. Like when the groom removes the bride's garter, and her gun falls out of her thigh holster, cutting the cake with a cavalry saber, etc.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-12-15 20:56  

#8  "heirloom knuckle duster trench knife"

Every family should have a least one, 'moose. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-12-15 19:06  

#7  They had better pick the squishiest REMF General they can find, because if they pick the wrong one, the General might get the first blood that's been on the family heirloom knuckle duster trench knife since WWI.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-12-15 18:09  

#6  "President" O'Bumble SHOULD tell Iran that if they kill an American general, we nuke a major Iranian city. Start with Bushehr (nuclear reactor) or Abadan (Iran's only oil refinery), then hit Qom and Bandar Abbas. Let them know that any new attack on the United States or its people will be VERY expensive to them. If we don't, then every American can figuratively be considered to have a bulls-eye painted on their back, wherever they are. That includes in the United States. Of course, O'Bumble doesn't have that much intelligence, so it'll never happen.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2010-12-15 18:01  

#5  #3: I nominate Mullen; he needs to visit early and often. Give him a feeling for the love.

I know. Very uncharitable of me. Heartfelt though.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2010-12-15 17:27  

#4  Hope they don't find out it was the work of General Motors.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2010-12-15 16:54  

#3  They should ask Pentagon staffs to nominate candidates.
Posted by: Penguin   2010-12-15 16:33  

#2  Well, given the current state of play in Wasshington, it would be interesting to see what the weak kneed political and diplomatic class would and would not allow the Pentagon to do about it if the killing of an American general could be definitively traced back to the iranian government.

I'm guessing, no, they (pols and diplos) wouldn't allow much in the way of a strong military response.

And no, I despise the thought of such a scenario occurring, so don't say I'm "rooting" for such a thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2010-12-15 16:05  

#1  In the midst of all this excitement, you've got to ask yourself one question,

"Do I feel lucky?"

"Well, do you, punk?"
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2010-12-15 15:57  

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