let's start a war
Covert operation? What covert operation?
According to Iranian sources, several officers have been abducted in the past three months and the United States has drawn up a list of other targets to be seized with the aim of destabilising Tehran’s military command.
...The first sign of a possible campaign against high-ranking Iranian officers emerged earlier this month with the discovery that Ali Reza Asgari, former commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force in Lebanon and deputy defence minister, had vanished, apparently during a trip to Istanbul. Asgari’s disappearance shocked the Iranian regime as he is believed to possess some of its most closely guarded secrets. The Quds Force is responsible for operations outside Iran. Last week it was revealed that Colonel Amir Muhammed Shirazi, another high-ranking Revolutionary Guard officer, had disappeared, probably in Iraq.
Ohh, that.
"This is no longer a coincidence, but rather an orchestrated operation to shake the higher echelons of the Revolutionary Guard," an Israeli source told The Sunday Times of London newspaper. A U.S. official with knowledge of the operation said the kidnappings were "essential for our understanding of Iranian activity in Iraq," the report said.
In other words, these guys are going to be staying in an Uzbeki prison with electrodes hooked up to their genitals until they tell us if its safe.
Iran Claims Officers Abducted [UPI]
Run Up to WWIII Provides Opportunity for Dick Joke [Wonkette]
