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2005-01-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-16 4:45:10 PM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hat tip Drudge.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-16 4:46:01 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:46:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 good - but Hersh's motives in publishing this are no doubt geared to stopping the ops and thereby endangering Americans. F*&ker

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-16 4:53:05 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:53:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt this particular report is going to endanger any operatives; but if Hersh crosses that line, lock him up and lose the key.

This is encouraging news, confirmation of what I've suspected for a while.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-16 4:56:55 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:56:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hersh is so full of shit his blue eyes are now brown. If there is (and I presume ther is) activiy inside Iran, Hersh and his never identifiable sources would be the last to know.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-16 5:05:07 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:05:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 You beat me to it, Frank. Of course we are doing what we can, and I don't doubt that there are some agents in Iran, primarily Iranians, but Hersh is waay over the line, unless he's being led there intentionally. I wish this was a bona-fide State of War, sadly HR-388 doesn't go that far... then Hersh and his "sources" could be summarily shot in the fucking head for treason. The ultimate press whore today.

There are (at least) two possibilities here:

1) He is not being misled in some devious Rovian Plotâ¢. I do not know, of course, how much he fabricates out of whole cloth, but I'd filter this with a fine mesh to see if he does have a source - and then introduce that fine American to every legal punishment available.

2) This is a Rovian Plotâ¢ - a disinformation campaign designed to screw with the Mad Mullahs and put Hersh and his ilk off the scent of what we're really doing. That is possibly the case with the heavy references to Pakiwakis.

Hersh really is a seditious piece of shit, regardless. Since we can't shoot him, we might as well use him to further US interests, which would chap his ass, of course, since he's on the other side.

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 5:08:02 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:08:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hersch is a self-serving idiot, so my money is on some carrots for Hersch to follow and report on. The US needs to put some paranoia into the Mad Mullahsâ¢, since we do not have the Big Bunch of Troops Invasion Optionâ¢.

President Bush has said that Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons. The US damn well better be doing clando ops, or we are being negligent in our obligations to the safety of our citizens.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-16 5:22:20 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:22:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Doubt that Hersh knows what's going on.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-16 5:51:53 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:51:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll bet there's more than a few Israelis there too, striking out from their bases in Kurdish Iraq.

Posted by Elmoling Grenter5118 2005-01-16 6:27:24 PM|| 2005-01-16 6:27:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I've said it before and I'll say it again: Sy Hersh hasn't been correct since 1972.

Posted by Parabellum 2005-01-16 7:50:12 PM|| 2005-01-16 7:50:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Put out a little bait and watch how your prey reacts...

Posted by TomAnon 2005-01-16 8:02:15 PM|| 2005-01-16 8:02:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 .com,

You say we can't shoot Hersh? Why not?

Posted by leaddog2 2005-01-16 8:13:21 PM|| 2005-01-16 8:13:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, not legally. Remember, you cannot advocate such a thing in a public forum. That he is a seditionist and traitor does not empower anyone to act outside of the law. Were we in a declared State of War, he would get his without us having to lift a finger - he'd have already gotten the attention he deserves. We're not. And you must not call for violence outside of the law or you are breaking the law.

We're cool. He'll run afoul someday - his ego will see to that. Meanwhile, I hope our Gov't, in the name of National Security, is playing his ass like a violin.

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 8:18:33 PM|| 2005-01-16 8:18:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Dear Seymour-
Life's a bitch. Deal with it.

Love,
Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-16 9:53:08 PM|| 2005-01-16 9:53:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 This is a rather convenient way to get the IRG tearing everyone new assholes in Iran in a frenzy to find those US operatives. This will result in Stalin-like purges of the officer corps of the regular army, and perhaps get some of their scientists fired as well. On top of that, the tighter they crack down, the harder it gets for them to really control the country - they are just adding more pressure for the nation to blow its gaskets.

Add to that, as they go nutso trying to find the "spies", we get to observe and see where they think their weknesses are, and how they go about hunting them down (thus revealing their true weak spots).

A little bit of clandestine work in the right spots with this kind of thing making them look all over the place will be highly effective.

Now all we need is Dan Rather saying he has found secret documents revealing the "Extensive clandestine operations network the US has in Iran"...

Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-16 10:16:55 PM|| 2005-01-16 10:16:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 This is a rather convenient way to get the IRG tearing everyone new assholes in Iran in a frenzy to find those US operatives. This will result in Stalin-like purges of the officer corps of the regular army, and perhaps get some of their scientists fired as well. On top of that, the tighter they crack down, the harder it gets for them to really control the country - they are just adding more pressure for the nation to blow its gaskets.

Add to that, as they go nutso trying to find the "spies", we get to observe and see where they think their weknesses are, and how they go about hunting them down (thus revealing their true weak spots).

A little bit of clandestine work in the right spots with this kind of thing making them look all over the place will be highly effective.

Now all we need is Dan Rather saying he has found secret documents revealing the "Extensive clandestine operations network the US has in Iran"...

Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-16 10:16:55 PM|| 2005-01-16 10:16:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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