Iranians killed by U.S. troops in Iraq

[Barrett808]

Source: UPI

BAGHDAD, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Three gunmen killed by U.S. troops in Iraq this week were members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, a U.S. military statement said in Baghdad.

The U.S. Army statement said that in several anti-insurgency attacks this week, a total of nine gunmen were killed. However, in one raid in northeastern Baghdad targeting a leader of the Iranian Guards' foreign fighters known as Al-Quds, three of his aides were killed by U.S. forces, Kuwait's KUNA news agency reported.

The unidentified leader was arrested on suspicion of supplying arms to Iraqi insurgents, the statement said.

Iran has repeatedly denied coalition allegations it provided training and weapons to Iraqi rebels. Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Defense said it was planning to designate the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist operation, which would disrupt the group's considerable foreign business transactions.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/08/16/iranians_killed_by_us_troops_in_iraq/9327/

[seemslikeadream]

1. How convenient

[Hand]

12. Dang! Ya beat me to it! nt

[Megahurtz]

15. Exacly.

:(

Fucking sick. :puke:

[Newsjock]

2. " ... U.S. military SAYS"

Why is this important detail left off UPI's headline? Wait, don't answer.

(Not faulting the OP; calling attention to sucky headline writing at the wire service.)

[WTF cubed]

13. They were wearing IRG Tee Shirts? n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Of course they were!

This is where the shit starts to happen.

[MaineDem]

4. How convenient

It's so sad that I have no respect for nor any faith in my government.

[Magleetis]

9. You are so right

I believe nothing from the news or the gov.

[Mudoria]

5. It's chance they take when they enter Iraq..

three less to sell or give weapons to the Shiite militias.

[atreides1]

7. It must be nice

To live in your world of black and white, right and wrong, and good and evil! How does one get an invitation?

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[Tempest]

10. Do you always believe things without evidence?

If there is one thing we've learned since the start of the Iraq war it's that anything out of the military can't be trusted.

[endarkenment]

14. You are in serious denial about what is going on.

Please review the events of the last seven years.

[seemslikeadream]

16. hummmm are you talking about Iraqi Shites?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. which explains their

Saudi IDs and Saudi weapons.

[GreenTea]

11. ...

[AzDar]

17. Shades of the 'Gleiwitz Incident, no?

:puke: