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2005-08-04 Iraq-Jordan

US seizes IRGC IEDs coming into Iraq from Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-08-04 20:18|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I saw the NBC video of one crate filled with the mines: olive drab, high quality, factory-made munitions professionaly packed. I didn't see an instruction manual (but if there was one, it was probably in Farsi anyway).

Posted by mrp 2005-08-04 20:23|| 2005-08-04 20:23|| Front Page Top

#2 This calls for some serious tit-for-tat against the RGs. A small explosion in one of their barracks, killing several hundred, would seem appropriate.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-04 20:33|| 2005-08-04 20:33|| Front Page Top

#3 So it's wasn't a 500 lb. bomb?

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-04 20:36|| 2005-08-04 20:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Good grief, the mullahs are looking for a fight. I truly thought they were mentally off their rockers, but with the internal goings-on in Iran lately and now this, we better be aquiring target coordinates and quick. Sure hope Bolton is ready to whip this out in the Gen. Assembly there at Turtle bay.

Posted by BA 2005-08-04 20:51|| 2005-08-04 20:51|| Front Page Top

#5 This seems like prima facie evidence justifying the immediatedestruvtion of all munitions manufacturing and storage sites in Iran. All of them. Give Iran two hours to evacuate people, and rthen obliterate the Iranian arms manufacturing and storage infrastructure. Let the world seethe. Let the bleeding hearts wail. What are they going to do - seize our Embassy?

Payback, 26 years and counting. Damage to "innocents"? Edmund Burke had it right -âAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.â Simple toleration of Iranian evil (including electing a terr as head of government) puts all Iranins in the crosshairs, as far as I am concerned.

Equal time for a historical quoate from an American: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Henry David Thoreau.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are two malignant roots that need some serious chopping. Maybe we should just nickname them "fission target" and "fusion target" - or "aiming points #1 and 32".

Bomb's away!!!!!

Posted by Lone Ranger 2005-08-04 20:56|| 2005-08-04 20:56|| Front Page Top

#6 not being piknikkerty, but what language was the manual translalated from? And, I mean translalated.

Posted by rhodesiafever 2005-08-04 21:01|| 2005-08-04 21:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Send the bombs back to Iran via airmail.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-04 21:26|| 2005-08-04 21:26|| Front Page Top

#8 When?

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2005-08-04 21:27|| 2005-08-04 21:27|| Front Page Top

#9 By the modern rules of warfare, this entitles us to attack with an increase of one escalator. I know it sounds like a damn board game, but it is how the major players operate in the real world. We literally *have* to do something, but it has to be a measured response. One of their ships might sink. A terrible high-rise fire may kill a few hundred. A dam might break. Something like that.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-04 21:41|| 2005-08-04 21:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Time to fire up the Tomahawks.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-08-04 21:46|| 2005-08-04 21:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Electrical infrastructure is very vulnerable.

And the Eastern border is wide open from the Afghanistan side.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-08-04 22:01|| 2005-08-04 22:01|| Front Page Top

#12 I like the idea of the electrical infrastructure. As in all of it. Take out every power plant in the country and bomb every attempt at repair. Let the Iranian people choose whether or not they like the 7th century.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2005-08-04 22:26|| 2005-08-04 22:26|| Front Page Top

#13 cyclotrons and such don't run well without electric power.

Posted by 3dc 2005-08-04 22:36|| 2005-08-04 22:36|| Front Page Top

#14 The appropriate response here is to publicly announce that we will interfere with Iran's internal affairs, if they refuse to cease interfering in Iran. Simply return the favor.

Posted by Rafael 2005-08-04 22:55|| 2005-08-04 22:55|| Front Page Top

#15 ..in Iraq, that is.

Posted by Rafael 2005-08-04 22:56|| 2005-08-04 22:56|| Front Page Top

#16 Has anyone seen Mugniyeh lately? Hariri's motorcade had a big sophistacated boom despite countermeasures and his MO is big explosions. My gut says he's one of the tentacles of Al Qaeda. Dan, you are very informative and apparently have access to lots of information. I read an old posting of yours regarding Mugniyeh in Thugburg and got chills. His association with Hamas, Hezbollah, and time spent in Brazil and other South American drug contacts brought to mind the report of Bin Laden meeting with Colombian drug lords to poison the coke. The neighborhood some of the London bombers lived in was noted as having Caribbean blacks and of course, the Brazilian shot in the subway lived in the same complex. These are a lot of potential bad guys that can easily travel as tourists very close to home. Besides having some hotbed ME communities in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, the Carribbean's main money maker after tourism is off-shore banking, incidentally where Khan and the BCCI investors that financed Pakistan's nuclear program shuttled their funds. Besides the money laundering and casinos that connect terrorists to the cartels and mafia, we have Aristide, Chavez, Castro, and no end of corrupt smugglers in the immediate area. Al Qaeda was picked up in La Paz, Mexico, a resort area, as wll as rumors of them elsewhere and connected to MS-13. There is a significant Palestinian population in the Virgin Islands, but the area is a hub for tourists from all over. It would make a convenient staging area. Factor in a three incidents of stolen boats or missing couples reported this week (boat stolen in Texas washes ashore with dead man near Cancun, couple missing in Pacific off coast of Mexico, and couple missing from Costa Rica), the 40 missing Americans from Nuevo Laredo, and I'd say there is plenty of suspicious activity south of the border. We have a LOT of coastline. The Coast Guard is in need of help...maybe they should train the commercial fishermen to be a merchant watch, much like the over-the-road truckers and border volunteers. I just feel like all out war has been declared with Zawahiri's tape and hope we aren't blind-sided because Islamists and and the black market seem incongruous to some analysts.

Posted by Danielle 2005-08-04 23:15|| 2005-08-04 23:15|| Front Page Top

#17 I would think we would say nothing, and do something. Iran has a long standing debt to repay with the U.S.M.C. they just added to that if they and the Revolutionary Guards can be traced to the shipment of shaped charges. This was no small device. My son in law the former Marine Captain says it had to be big to toss that vehicle like it did. Pay back is over due.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-04 23:19|| 2005-08-04 23:19|| Front Page Top

#18 We have a problem here if we attempt to explode an atomic bomb here. ( ACLU and all).
Would we have that same problem in Iran? Save us a lot of cleanup..

Posted by plainslow 2005-08-04 23:33|| 2005-08-04 23:33|| Front Page Top

#19 Great post, Danielle. I had no idea about the Palestinian outpost and the Americans that have recently gone missing. Can you give us some references/articles? Thanks so much!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-04 23:58|| 2005-08-04 23:58|| Front Page Top

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