Iraqi fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran'

[rodeodance]

Source: the observer



Iraqi fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran'


Interrogator says US military seeks evidence incriminating Tehran

David Smith in Baghdad
Sunday November 11, 2007
The Observer


Micah Brose, privately contracted interrogator working for US forces in Iraq. Photograph: David Smith




US military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi insurgents to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran, it was claimed last night.
Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for American forces in Iraq, near the Iranian border, told The Observer that information on Iran is 'gold'. The claim comes after Washington imposed sanctions on Iran last month, citing both its nuclear ambitions and its Revolutionary Guards' alleged support of Shia insurgents in Iraq. Last week the US military freed nine Iranians held in Iraq, including two it had accused of links to the Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force.

Brose, 30, who extracts information from detainees in Iraq, said: 'They push a lot for us to establish a link with Iran. They have pre-categories for us to go through, and by the sheer volume of categories there's clearly a lot more for Iran than there is for other stuff. Of all the recent requests I've had, I'd say 60 to 70 per cent are about Iran.

'It feels a lot like, if you get something and Iran's not involved, it's a let down.' He added: 'I've had people say to me, "They're really pushing the Iran thing. It's like, shit, you know." '....


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2209036,00.html

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The pattern is so so obvious

[ck4829]

1. Does "grilled" mean that they had some body part of theirs put on a hot grill?

[Turbineguy]

3. Water-grilling

[Gman]

2. Again, remember uncle Dick(head)'s trip to Saudi Arabia last Thanksgiving

(Details here at Daily Kos)

VP Dick(head) got his ass chewed out by the Saudi King because SA was getting extremely excited about the Shiite insurgency going on. Remember that Saudi Arabia is Sunni and never the twain shall meet. Ever. Also remember people like former Saudi Arabia ambassador Bandar Bush. Remember all these things and it becomes crystal clear just what VP Dick(head) is up to now and why he's pressing so hard to please his and the Bush family's masters in Saudi Arabia.

Here's more information I wrote in my DU Journal back in July.

[IndianaGreen]

4. All those alerts we got from Homeland Security in 2002 were the result of torture

We tortured hundreds of detainees, and they told us what we wanted to hear. "Are you planning to bomb the Holland tunnel," the torturer would ask. "Yes, we are bombing all the tunnels and bridges," the desperate prisoner would respond.

[bluedeminredstate]

5. K&R

Why is it always the British press that reports the necessary stuff? I swear CNN top dogs would eat ground glass for another Elizabeth Smart...

[ohio2007]

6. Let the Iraqis ask the questions

Meet Abu Abed: the US's new ally against al-Qaida

With summary beatings and imprisonments, he has the methods of a mafia don. But he and others like him are crucial to American strategy

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Baghdad
Saturday November 10, 2007

Guardian

On a recent Friday morning in west Baghdad, 20 of Hajji Abu Abed's men were shifting their feet nervously in the dusty yard outside his house as they waited for their leader to emerge.
The men, young and well armed with Kalashnikovs, pistols and hand grenades, were wearing the favoured dress for militiamen in Iraq these days: green camouflage commando uniforms decorated with bits of US army kit - a pouch on one man, webbing on another, a cap here, sunglasses there, a few flak jackets between them. Some bore the insignia of Iraqi army officers.

Around noon, a fighter came running from the large house across the street and shouted: "The Hajji is coming!"

snip

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,331225411-110878,00.html

the Iraqi Blackwater A team is stepping up to the plate

[Barrett808]

7. k & r

[humbled_opinion]

8. Waterboarding? n/t