The Wikitruth About Iranian Murder of Americans
The latest bunch of previously secret reports from Wikileaks abundantly document the Iranian war against Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. Have a look at the New York Times‘ latest account, which is a model of fine journalism: lots of information, links to the primary documents, and good context throughout. These guys are good enough to write for Pajamas…
Typically, CNN acts as if these were new revelations, although they are not. American military officers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been telling us for many years that the Iranians were up to their necks in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they were arming, funding, and training terrorists to kill Americans, and doing quite a bit of it themselves. A lot of the lethal “roadside bombs” came from Iran, and a lot of terrorists were either Iranians or foreigners (including Sunnis, contrary to the popular myth that Sunnis and Shi’ites don’t work together) trained in Iran by Iranians. There are even some reports that Iranians used some sort of chemical or biological weapons, although these are not confirmed and may well be wrong.
For extras, there’s information confirming what I have written for quite a while, namely that the American “hikers” were not in Iran at all, but in Iraq. The Iranian kidnappers crossed the border to capture the Americans, just as the London Telegraph said early on, and what the Nation concluded after an on-the-spot investigation.
So thanks to Wikileaks for showing that I’ve been pretty much on-target all along, and thanks to those newspapers that accurately reported this information.
No thanks go to those who claimed that the opposite was true: those like Sy Hersh who wrote again and again that American forces were operating in Iran, and who warned that the Bush administration first, and now the Obama administration, were planning a shooting war against the Islamic Republic. Hersh and the various Giraldis, Lobes, Cannistraros, and their echo chambers on the wacky left should take the opportunity to apologize for failing to report what was actually going on: the Iranians were waging war against us, while we were doing precious little to fight back, despite a high cost of life and limbs.
I haven’t served in the armed forces (I have a disability that disqualifies me, and any lefties that want to call me a chicken-hawk because of it are welcome to try it), but I’d also like to know the answer to that question… from Presidents and officials of both parties.
On a slight non-sequitur, that’s one of the main differences between the right and left… conservatives will openly and loudly criticize the bad decisions of Republican leaders (Harriet Miers, anyone?) but it’s extremely rare for a lefty to ever criticize a Democrat.
Moreover, few have had the guts to tell the truth about where Israel stood on this matter.
As a matter of fact, there was a STRONG voice among Israeli leaders that Iran was the preferred FIRST address, NOT Iraq.
Even though it was Iraq which lobbed scuds at our cities, and our boys had to go in and destroy Osarik, they understood that taking care of the Iranian Hiterlite regime took precedence.
The thinking went, IF they fell, so too would the rest of the dominoes-Saddam included.
So, the question becomes, what was Bush really thinking?Perhaps payback against Saddam for the thwarted attack on daddy played a part? As someone who voted for him I would really like to know this!
Consider:IF Iran’s leadership were squashed, it would have been a stone’s throw over the border to Iraq, getting any Al Qaeda flushed out. It surely appears as if this war effort was done butt backwards.Was it on purpose, to also aid the Iranian regime?
Quite possibly….
I think Bush’ motivation was multiple – as you said, Adina, getting the guy who tried to kill dad; finishing the war that Dad started, thus outdoing Dad and winning his respect; stopping a threat to OPEC since Saddam and friends were threatening to start a Euro-dollar purchase of his oil; reducing a threat to Israel (for Bush, I think this was a genuine part of his motivation); influence of people like Natan Sharansky with whom Dubya was friendly, and who wanted to bring perestroika to the Muslim world; removing the Saddam threat to Saudi and the gulf states; helping the Iraqi people.
well said larry.
ML: wrote: “Those who fought and are fighting in this war are entitled to ask Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Blair and Hadley, along with Obama, Biden, Clinton, Gates again, Mullen and Panetta and the rest, why they failed to go after the Iranian regime, or the terrorist training camps inside Iran, or the assembly lines (many of them similarly inside Iran) for the explosives that have been the greatest cause of casualties in this log war”.
Amen and amen. I served two tours in OIF and had commrades horribly killed and maimed by what appeared to be EFPs (the very effective special IEDs described in open source as supplied by Iran).
If we are asking questions of our leaders, I would also ask how it is that we have done nothing effective for 20 years to stop the mullahs from developing and fielding nuclear weapons. It’s not as if this threat was unknown in the early 1990s.
I’m deploying to A-stan in Novemeber. I hope our leaders will give us better support for this one.
Thank you for your service. Those of us on the home front need to do more to insure that Iran faces some consequences for its war on America. Obama is a lost cause but the new conservative congress needs to hear a constant, loud plea for tougher sanctions and more support for the opposition.
Someone should also be asking why there’s such great insistance to keep Israel from bombing the Crap out of Iran, when we know that the Saudi’s are will to close a blind eye to there interaction against Iran in a heart beat !!! I winder on a daily basis why either Israel or both them & us have not produced a campaign to go after the entire Middle East to end this BS once and for all. We nor anyone else in or around the Middle East sit on our hands while Iran and other rogue nation develop and gain access sto fissle material to develope Nuclear Weapon and if they gain that technology will only make matters worse for all involved or affected. I to would be considered a Chicken Hawk, but due to my mother having the German Mesasles I was lucky to have a birth defect that kept me form signing up as I tried in my teenage years 18 to be exact.
We cannot afford to open another WAR FRONT (Iran) in middle east.
Iran may or may not be responsible for any terrorist activities in Iraq, but we need to get out of there and let them sort it our among themselves.
There are enough countries in that region that can keep a check on Iran. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait to the west, Oman to the south, Russia in the north and Pakistan in the east have enough interest in the stability of the region and they can take care of Iran.
How can Petraeus & company tell Americans -
that if only Israel gave up the west bank all would be fine.
The Saudis have a lot to account for and our politicians bank accounts need to be looked into.
I mean both the elephants and jackasses.
The same story has been happening in Afghanistan too. The US administration ( and you forgot to name the merciful Colin Powel)is the very definition of:
“Facts are things to be neglected”.
(and don’t forget the true friend of Islamic Republic,Mr Jack Straw, when you refer to the Britons.
By the way, did you happen to see this:
“‘Iran gave Karzai’s top aide cash by the bagful`
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Iran-gave-Karzais-top-aide-cash-by-the-bagful/articleshow/6806381.cms
So do we!
Exactly. Did President Bush not know about this? Does the current Pres not know these? if yes, then the question is: Why did they not take action against the Iranian regime?
Companies make good (or blood) money from wars so to keep them going is only being a good business man Michael you should know that and besides once the war is over there’s the mineral wealth of these nations, that to be plundered correctly takes time to set up. A system that leaves the plunderers well hidden takes time if your going to do it right.
More disturbing, how could the U.S. propose to leave Iraq and Afghanistan and effectively turn over both countries to the Iranians. No wonder there is no talk of “winning” the wars, the de facto winners reside in Iran. We are simply renting space in both countries while putting our bravest men and women in harm’s way.
There is one major problem. The world has l.6 billion Moslems and no President wants to be the one to declare war on them. All you have to do is see how unpopular the war in Iraq has been. Do you want to compound this with another war with Iran? A rational answer would be yes. However, that’s not how the world sees it, thank you Saudi Arabia and all your money. Instead we have to act like we really care about the 1.6 billion screaming Moslems who want to destroy the entire West. All American administrations have been arabist. They have to be because the life blood of our nation pulses through the arab oil cartel’s pipes. All we can do is act like some girl who just had somebody they didn’t like cop a feel on them. That doesn’t garner respect, it only invites another feel. Although we have the capability to react by smacking our offender properly, we can only mouth our indignation.
gump/grump: they have declared and are now waging war on us. and the issue as i have described it is not “moslems” but the regime in Tehran.
your last line says it all. …it is disgusting.
Too much money has been made by both the IRGC and the US military and all the various private security networks and drug dealers for any of this to come out sooner. Quo Bene?
Why they should do this, i think Bush must look at all these things, because it’s so important.
Oh goody, more than 7 yrs after we invaded Iraq on lies and deceptions, and made it into a killing ground, right wingers are finally asking about the Iran’s involvement in all this. Let me give you the quickie outline for the slow and clueless:
1) Iraq (specifically Hussein) and Iran were mortal enemies, especially after their bloody, nasty war.
2) The post-Gulf War 1 “no-fly” zones, which were strongly enforced and protected the Kurds from Hussein’s brutal policing, also inadvertently made Iraq’s border with Iran vulnerable.
3) Iran used the border vulnerability to provide covert support for a particularly hostile and violent Kurdish sect called Ansar al-Islam. Ansar was also supported by al-Qaeda, and may actually have been created by them. Ansar wanted to overthrow Hussein and create an Islamic state within Iraq, and they also fought violently with other, more moderate Kurdish groups.
4) If the name “Ansar al-Islam” seems strangely familiar, it’s because they were named by Colin Powell at his UN presentation as evidence of Iraq’s connection to al-Qaeda. Tommy Franks also referred to them (disingenuously) as a terrorist organization operating out of Iraq.
But wait, you may ask: “If Ansar al-Islam was an enemy of Hussein and supported by Hussein’s enemy, Iran, and they were also supported by al-Qaeda, then none of statements by Bush and his people about Hussein having al-Qaeda connections makes any sense.”
And you would be right, they never did make any sense — that is if you weren’t a gullible, ill-informed idiot.
5) Do I really need to describe what Iran did once Hussein was taken out?
I note, BC, that you seem to have “accidentally” missed a significant event between your points 1 and 2: the Iraqi invasion of a sovereign nation, Kuwait. You wanna explain that omission?
Oh, and don’t forget that Mr. Clinton did nothing to remove the no-fly zones after Mr. Bush was out of office… so if you wanna blame Booooooooooooosh ya also gotta blame Billy-Boy. The person who finally ended the no-fly zones was Dubya… so I guess that was a good thing, if you think the no-fly zones were a bad thing.
To ConservativeWanderer: Ummm, and your points have to do with my points, how? Did I say the no-fly zones were bad things? No. Did Clinton enforce the no-fly zones with maybe too much vigor? Possibly yes, but that has absolutely nothing to do with how Bush and his people later on tried to blame Hussein for how there were some al-Qaeda affiliates operating from the Kurdish area — which of course was off limits to Hussein since that was in the no-fly zone.
And how also is the 1990 Kuwait thing related to any of this? Why not bring up Iran-Contra while you’re at it? Also, it appears that Hussein was not entirely wrong in claiming that Kuwait was tapping into Iraqi oil reserves via slant drilling, and that some satellite “evidence” of Hussein supposedly amassing troops along the border may not have been all that they should be.
This kind of BS is probably the real reason why the Middle East has been nothing but an endless circle of trouble for all these years: everybody lies and everybody tries to screw someone else, including the U.S., so nobody trusts anybody, and for good reason. There are no good guys here.
It’s very simple. The no-fly zones that you reference in your point #2 were the direct result of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Therefore, all the bad effects of the no-fly zones are also the result of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
Now, are you gonna try and spin that as Boooooooooooooosh’s fault too?
ConservativeWanderer wrote:
It’s very simple. The no-fly zones that you reference in your point #2 were the direct result of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Therefore, all the bad effects of the no-fly zones are also the result of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
Now, are you gonna try and spin that as Boooooooooooooosh’s fault too?
Maybe you didn’t understand my last response, so let me try to break it down some more:
1) The al-Qaeda affiliate and Iran supported radical Kurdish group, Ansar al-Islam, operated in Kurdish territory, which was in the no-fly zone and hence off limits to Hussein.
2) Iran was Iraq’s mortal enemy and Ansar wanted to establish an Islamic republic inside Iraq, two things that kind of indicates that Hussein would not be at all buds with Iran’s and Ansar’s mutual friend, al-Qaeda.
3) Yet Powell claimed at the UN during his PowerPoint presentation of why Hussein needed to be removed: “But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization, Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000 this agent offered Al Qaida safe haven in the region. After we swept Al Qaida from Afghanistan, some of its members accepted this safe haven. They remain there today.
4) #3 was just many of the lies that Bush and his people doled out promiscuously. And they were lie-lies, not intel failures or any of the excuses that were made up later.
5) *All* of the real evidence had always pointed to Iran as being a supporter of al-Qaeda, not Iraq, something a certain random dude on the Internet use to point out pretty frequently when discussion forums were more manly and open.
6) So again, how do your last comments relate to any of this?
Pulling the remaining US forces out of Iraq next year, as Obama wants to do, will both ensure the success of Iran’s designs in that country (which are moving right along already), and further weaken US capabilities to confront Iran directly on its nuclear ambitions.
The muddled indecisiveness of US policies has at the same time ironically provided good grounds to pull out of the entire region altogether, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, until a comprehensive strategic approach can be formulated and agreed upon.
It is also very clear that American leaders and the general public alike are unable or unwilling to confront the inevitability of all out war and the immediate necessity for military rearmament and mobilization on a vast scale.
More evidence that Barak Obama = Jimmy Carter II.
Why aren’t we talking about ending islam totally?
Remove mecca from existence… it really is that simple.. Why fight muslims when you can just prove allah is a fraud invented by mohammad?
Let muslims figure out how to continue fighting for a flawed god…
Because a billion-person genocide is unacceptable?
Moron.
Who’s dumb?
I did not know Mecca had a population of a billion…. Would you post the link to that AMAZING stat?
That fact is that Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama were/are afraid of confronting the Iranians; They would rather sit in the dark with their hands covering their eyes while the Persian Empire re-emerges and takes over the oil fiels and becomes the one and only supper power
If we’re going to raise questions about past delinquencies, here are a few more in a long list to consider:
How did the State Department and the CIA fail for years to predict the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union? How did they follow up by allowing KGB strongman Putin to gain ascendency in the “new” Russia and resurrect its spoiler role in world affairs? Is State nostalgic for its old negotiating partner? Unable to break the habit of concessions to old enemies?
Where was the CIA when the Ayatollah Khomeini was sitting unguarded in Paris taping his incendiary sermons that undermined the Shah?
How comes the FBI come to shamelessly inform Molly Norris of the Seattle Weekly that it is powerless to protect her from Islamic death threats?
What the hell do we pay these people for?
David Levavi: and why do we expand their ranks every time they screw up?
Carter and Brzez supported the mujahadeen in Pakistan together with the Saudis. Reagan did the same. Carter accelerated or enabled Khomeini’s takeover. Reagan did little about it. Those were Shiites blowing up Americans (and Israelis) in Lebanon in ’82-83. Reagan left, he and Bush (and Peres) dealt with Iran instead ‘for the Contras.’ CIA was involved in that too; so maybe the nexus is just too tight to break, and the goals are not what is stated. Maybe they are rewarded because they and the Admins are almost the same thing (see: GHW Bush). Then you have the weird deaths of those like Colby who was talking about Vietnam, maybe Iran-Contra. Drowned in his canoe. It’s all pretty funky.
while we are on the subject of Iran, I talked to my sister this morning. it is a chaos she told me. most Bazzars are closed. epople are waiting to see what happens after the subidies are canceled the Dollar is at all time high.
m
This comment is in the context of economics:
Second part requires a different collection of actors for the stage show. The present caste seem unable to appreciate where their unified decision to simply pass the buck to the IMF might lead. Only when the lesson becomes self evident there is a boundary will the print or devalue and pray policies stop. Then its just a question of time for a tangible solution becoming desired by all. No pain no gain for the masters of hubris.
It is part of this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8082701/G20-vows-to-avoid-currency-war.html#comment-89713157
I daresay, Michael, the same can be said about foreign policy regarding Iran from foggy bottom, Whitehall, the Quai d’orsay,
and those dragooned, or talked into, who go along with the aforementioned.
Plus, there is the connection, in the mind’s eye of some, that the current regime in Teheran is untouchable. They want nukes, and
they have connections with the Beijing Politburo.
I seem to recall reading somewhere, by someone saying fear has made a lot of cowards.
Yes the ransom, described/presented as bail, for the kidnap victim was paid.
My story/explanation enables a rational explanation and a method for predicting weapons deals that parade as: “wars”…as I have successfully done since 1979…
The war is a weapons deal.
The Shah was “stabbed in the back” (Haig) in 1979 by Jimmy Carter and the weapons manufactures reps, parading as religious, were brought in: to keep most of Iranian oil off the market.
The Iraq fiasco 1991-2010 was/is to keep the oil off the market!
High oil prices “mean” lots of petro dollars available for weapons sales/wars!
The biggest story of the last 100 years was the proof of my correlation analysis: (and weather you believe it is a weapons deal or not is completely irrelevant: deal with “it” as a weapons deal and you can explain it, predict it, and make it go away)
BP oil spill: 1000/bbl/day no 5000/bbl/day…”we are catching in ships 33,000/bbl/day and 20,000/bbl/day continue to go in the gulf!
There are 4500 wells in the US sector of the gulf; the plans for the leaky well before the blowout were to cap it or 1,000/bbl/day: they are holding back the oil to maintain high prices!
Interesting context. No doubt there are people in the Oil
Patch, who prefer that the Oil Sands in Alberta not pump the million and a half barrels of oil a day, into the system.
I may have my numbers out of whack, so feel free to check “Ethical Oil” by Ezra Levant.
Why not go after Iran? The same reason LBJ ignored Laos and Cambodia, he didn’t want to enrage the American people for expanding the war. Invading Iraq was hell on Bush’s presidency; after that everything really went downhill. There was a precedent.
Strategically its a good move, but politicians make decisions first on what helps them and their party, second on what is the right thing to do.
Michael: there has been a dereliction of duty since Jimmy Carter. One thing that always struck me is how we have so much propaganda against the U.S. and so-called “war crimes” and none against an islamic enemy that beheads innocent victims. Indeed, we were told that Reagan was a “warmonger.” Yet, he did nothing to avenge the death of our troops after Beirut. The answer to the dereliction of duty is, I am afraid, in the fact that the powers behind the scene actually want this chaos for their ultimate end of making people sick of all religions. It appears to be working, too, since whenever islamic atrocities are mentioned, somehow people start bringing up the past like the Inquisition is still going on or something. Indeed, even the latest synod of Middle Eastern bishops brought about, not a condemnation of islam, but of Israel. Diabolical disorientation at its best, unfortunately.
The West is fighting to lose as usual, and this is another piece of the same.
Why is the West fighting to lose?
Why is the greatest civilisation that the world has had so far determined to destroy itself?
I don’t buy the cyclical arguments routine, and that civilisations come and go.
Not if they don’t want to, they don’t.
Yes, you are right. Disgusting it is.
Right!
Not to mention the fact that Iran is close to acquiring nuclear power. How will America deal with it then? Out of fear of retaliation it won’t be able to do anything. The countries of the world see this. Egypt is now planning a nuclear reactor and so is Venezuela. With all this nuclear activity the chances increase that nuclear material will end up in the hands of terrorists.
Amen. That’s all I gotta say.
It’s not just with Iran that the administration is feckless, but also with China. Their foreign policy could best be summarized “Speak Loudly, but carry No Stick.”
Take, for example, when China broke the American embargo upon gasoline shipments to Iran. What did the Obama administration do?
Or take, for example, when China supported, in the Security Council, North Korea’s torpedoing of a South Korean ship. What did the Obama administration do?
Or take, for example, China’s WTO-illegal suspension of shipments of Rare Earths to the United States this week. What will the Obama administration do?
And what will the Obama administration do, now that the mercantilists (Germany, Japan, and China) are rejecting Geithner’s call for balanced trade at the G-20?
When the chapter on Teddy Roosevelt’s successful foreign policy was written, it was entitled, “Speak Softly, but carry a Big Stick.” When the chapter on Barack Obama’s foreign policy is written, it may be entitled, “Speak Loudly, but carry No Stick.”
nice one, howard. but he really doesn’t even talk loudly except when it comes to elections in this country…
A question I fear people will be asking our leaders in the near future will be:
“You knew Iran was building nuclear weapons, so why didn’t you do something to stop Iran when you had the chance?”
You are not trying to tell us that USA was not aware of IRI activities in Iraq. Are you? Iranian people are / were always about atrocities committed by Khomeinists in Iraq. Many construction companies which are own by elements of IRI terrorists regime are active in Iraq mostly in charge of luxury buildings both residential and commercial. These companies actually gather information from the locals, bribe them constantly and commit all sorts of murderous acts. At the same time as we have seen it in past 31 years, and particularly last 2 years no Western countries truly care about authorities committed against Iranian people on a daily basis. Throughout the past 31 years most freedom loving people are either jailed, raped, or murderer along with their families. The remaining freedom loving people have been lined up, jailed, raped, and murdered in the past 2 years. Iranian Wondering if this was not a set up to identify anybody who is against IRI. If Western democracies cared at all, they would stop all economic transactions with Khomeinist regime, stop their stolen money to flow to the West, didn’t issue visa for the terrorists and their families,…etc. But that is not the case at all and that is why IRI thugs know very well no matter what they do to their own people, there are still many Western democracies that they can go to, without any problem. Today EU said they will enlist 40 IRI political figures to prevent them to travel to EU countries. If this ever happens, I bet there would not be any Ayatooleh who routinely travels to London or Rome supposedly for medical purposes. Unless these terrorist Khomeinists face the real consequences of their murderous acts, they will continue with their Khomeinist policies.
And if some people had their way, we’d never hear about what the government covers up…
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/10/25/christian-whiton-wiki-leaks-ignore-threat-obama-democrats-congress-iraq-war/
Maybe Christian Whiton would prefer we not know anything except what the government decides we should know.
Free Kurdistan and f**k Turkey and Iran simultaneously. Free Baluchistan. Join Iranian Azerbaijan to the nation of Azerbaijan. Join Ahwaz province of Iran to Shia Iraq. Render Iran inot the rump state of Persia, just like the evolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire into Austria. Let Iran become the next Austria
Michael, thanks for writing about this important issue. In general,this is not new about the Iranian regime’s murderous actions and is not new regarding Iran’s deep involvement in terrorist operations against Americans and Israelis and Iraqis alike. We know that mullahs had been waged war on USA more than 31 years, that is since the Ayatollah Khomeini had been declared the war against infidels in the name of Allah and Mullahs in 1979…whole the world knows about the pounding speeches and continued hatred declarations by the mullahs regime that calling to destruction the Great Satan and to wipe Israel off the map…Both Syrians and Iranians were backed terrorist groups, including Islamist movements, and Hezbollah was training insurgents to use explosives to do assaults and acts of war against the United States. Many Americans have been killed in Lebanon twenty seven years ago and today murdering you in Iraq and Afghanistan through their proxies who are arming and training and funding by both two regimes…So this is not new around Iran’s role in arming and assisting militant groups including Sunni alliances. But the new thing in this issue is the direct relationship of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki with Shiite terrorist groups that responsible for political assassinations on his orders.
The terror masters of these evil states “Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Saddam regime, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and Sudan” all working together, is a moment America went into Afghanistan. Saudi clerics were granted infernal fatwas are knowingly from Saudi government to jihad against infidels “Zionists and Crusaders”. They all worked accurately to coordinate the Jihad against the United States and Israel. The cooperation increased when United States was to run-up to Iraq freedom operation where most of Al-Qaeda leaders were welcomed by Saddam’s regime before Iraq freedom war. They all waged and is still waging war against United States and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan and they sponsoring terrorist assaults against them and against its interests in the region, and it is certainly possible they backed terrorist assaults in Europe. It’s very clear that evil regimes overwhelmingly have participated in increase of the hatred toward the United States and Israel, which is why they must have to pay high-price for what they did in right of the United States of America!
As for the secret U.S. military reports showed by Wikileaks, where the alleged documents show that the U.S.-led coalition troops have killed hundreds of civilians and that US Units has killed hundreds of innocent civilians of “men, women, and children” at US military checkpoints . Let alone mistreatment, abuses and the cases of torture in front of Americans eyes.
In fact, I DOUBT the veracity of these alleged secret materials. Most obviously a death count is untrue and falsified, and these alleged reports just will show the world that the U.S. forces committed a new serious breach of international law where that USA has violated human rights. Above all it will reduce of International Community’s respect for America, in particular, in front of its allies and also will downplay the US’s greatness and prestige.
I STRONGLY BELIEVE that the U.S. forces did NOT violation of the human rights. The U.S. officers continuously are warning the Iraqi army and Iraqi police against these practices in the right of innocent civilians, but on the other hand, there is NO law or rights for terrorists!!! I say NO thank to WikiLeaks to showing such sensitive information which will poses a real risk to the US national security. These alleged documents could endanger US troops and Iraqi civilians and will putting the US interests at risk. So, the USA MUST condemn all unauthorised releases of classified material. Moreover “WikiLeaks” MUST return all leaked information and that fool, the website’s founder MUST apologize to the USA.
If you do not have ability to face your enemies please just STOP drumming for such trivialities and the fabricated lies in the right of U.S. military. The USA does NOT need more humiliation and more reducing in credibility of its Institutions.
Jassem Othman – Syrian dissident, the Land of Holocaust, Poland.