longwarjournal.org - 3/13/2009
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Iraqi security forces captured three members of Qods Force, Iran's special operations branch, during a raid in Diyala province.
“The three were arrested inside al-Khalis district, north of Baaquba city,” an Iraqi official told Voices of Iraq .
Iraqi and US forces have killed one Qods ...
blog.wired.com - 3/12/2009
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blog.wired.com —
An American fighter jet shot down an Iranian
drone as it was flying over Iraq, U.S. military...
sources in Baghdad tell Danger Room. Details of the previously-unreported shoot-down, which occurred last month, are still sketchy. But we do know that...
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U.S. Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone Over Iraq (Updated)
boston.com - 3/11/2009
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boston.com —
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is leaning toward
making a major diplomatic overture to Iran before the...
country's presidential elections in June. This initiative could come in the form of a letter from President Obama to Supreme Leader Ayatollah ...
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US may soon make overture to Iran leader - The Boston Globe
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Bill Roggio: Three Iranian Qods Force agents captured in Iraq
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Friday, 13 March 2009 The Qods Force operatives were detained in Diyala province, were a senior Qods Force officer was captured three months ago. read ...
Notes from the proxy war
TigerHawk —
You do not read much about it in the papers, but American and Iraqi forces have been capturing Iranian agents inside Iraq on a fairly regular basis, including three in December announced only this week. These agents are helping insurgents kill American soldiers. Call it what you will and explain it away if you want, but if these allegations are true (and the linked article is more than a little credible, coming as it does from Bill Roggio) then Iran is in fact waging hot war against the United States. Of course, one cannot extrapolate any particular policy for dealing with ...
Iranian Qods Force Operatives Captured In Iraq
Weekly Standard Blog —
Yesterday Danger Room's Noah Schactman reported that U.S. fighter planes shot down an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle in Iraqi airspace, and Iraqi security forces detained three Iranian Qods Force operatives in Diyala province, just north of Baghdad.
Qods Force, the special operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been active in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The U.S. military and the Iraqi government largely ignored Iranian activity until late 2006, when it was clear the violence caused by Iranian supported groups such as ...
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