The Karbala Raid (UPDATED) at QandO
Bruce McQuain at QandO blog has a very interesting post up about the Karbala raid in which 5 US soldiers were killed, 4 after having been kidnapped.
The post contains extensive excerpts from The Fourth Rail by Bill Roggio. They both conclude that the Iranians were behind the sophisticated raid in an attempt to at least gain release of their own people take prisoner recently in northern Iraq.
Bill Roggio notes:
This raid required specific intelligence, in depth training for the agents to pass as American troops, resources to provide for weapons, vehicles, uniforms, identification, radios and other items needed to successfully carry out the mission. 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. (emphasis mine)
Mr. McQuain notes at the conclusion of his post:
Excellent points, excellent analysis and I’d guess it’ll be proven to be spot on eventually. If so, a whole new front in this war has just been blown wide open. And you heard it from a blog first. (emphasis mine)
This isn’t about the war in Iraq. This is the Islamo-fascist war to control the Middle East and establish the new caliphate. Those aren’t my words for it, it’s what they’ve said time and http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16356again.
If politicians and opinion-spouters don’t wonder at the “coincidence” of these raid types and the implication that the radical IRGC and Qods Force are behind them, they should turn in their party membership cards.
This string of information about the involvement of the radical Iranian leadership’s continued involvement in terrorism and irregular warfare reminds me of the catalog of information about the Sunni brand of salafi jihadists that became al Qaeda. Read “The Looming Tower”, by Lawrence Wright. (see also the 2 hour interview of Mr. Wright by Hugh Hewitt)
