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2007-01-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian Troop Build-Up Along Border With Iraqi Kurdistan

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-19 16:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do I smell popcorn?

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-19 16:49|| 2007-01-19 16:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I would if Iran is actually stupid enough to cross the border and give President Bush a green light to bomb their nuke program to rubble? An Iranian attack would be all the legal provocation we would need to hammer the hell out of them, UN and Dems be screwed!

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-19 18:05|| 2007-01-19 18:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Both Turkey and Iran have done limited incursions into Kurdistan after the PKK already. Unless the Iranians took too many assets in too deeply, we would ignore it, because the PKK is just too freaking crazy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-19 18:13|| 2007-01-19 18:13|| Front Page Top

#4 we would not be acting to further the PKK, instead it would be to protect Iraqi territorial integrity *wink wink*

A good limited spanking would expose the Iranians as paper tigers and might encourage the crazier MMs/IRG to attack us/Iraq with missiles. Then it starts

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-19 18:35|| 2007-01-19 18:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Basij - 'volunteers'. Comprised of a mixture of rural Iranians, Palestinians, Chechens, and Afghanis. Originally, many were the walking-mine-detectors during the Iran-Iraq war.

Now their duties are as religious police, riot and civil-control forces. Though they may be commanded by IRGC officers, the head of the Basij is appointed by the mullahs and is not necessarily military.

If they're building up on the border, it means the Iranian govenment doesn't trust the military or the more conventional IRGC. They're not intending to go just after separatists.

Posted by Pappy 2007-01-19 21:24|| 2007-01-19 21:24|| Front Page Top

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