January 27, 2007

Iranians Responsible for Murder of U.S. Soldiers in Karbala?

Bill Roggio reports that Iranian trained forces may have been behind a recent attack in Karbala in which 4 soldiers were captured and then later murdured.

The Fourth Rail:

Based on the sophisticated nature of the raid, as well as the response, or cryptic non-responses, from multiple military and intelligence sources, this raid appears to have been directed and executed by the Qods Force branch of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps....

Hezbollah's Imad Mugniyah executed a similar attack against Israeli forces on the Lebanese border, which initiated the Hezbollah-Israeli war during the summer of 2006.....

Mahawil [ed: where the bodies of the four soldiers were found] is in Babil province, about 27 miles directly west of Karbala. While it is impossible to prove, the attackers may have been making a bee-line towards the Iranian border....

IF it is confirmed that Iran's Qods Force was responsible, the news that the United States has authorized the death or captured of Iranian agents inside Iraq, as well as in Afghanistan and Lebanon makes all the more sense.

Read the whole thing.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 03:40 PM | |