The Quds Puzzle

Secretive Iranian Military Unit Is Accused By U.S. Of Arming Iraqi Militias

(AP)  Iran's secretive Quds Force, accused by the United States of arming Iraqi militants with deadly bomb-making material, has built up an extensive network in the war-torn country, recruiting Iraqis and supporting not only Shiite militias but also Shiites allied with Washington.

Still unclear, however, is how closely Iran's top leadership is directing the Quds Force's operations — and whether Iran has intended for its help to Shiite militias to be turned against U.S. forces.

Iran likely does not want a direct confrontation with American troops in Iraq but is backing militiamen to ensure Shiites win any future civil war with Iraqi Sunnis after the Americans leave, several experts said Thursday.

The Quds Force's role underlines how deeply enmeshed Iran is in its neighbor — and how the U.S. could face resistance even from its allies in Iraq if it tries to uproot Iran's influence in the country.

The Quds (pronounced "KOHds") Force — the name means "Jerusalem" in Farsi and Arabic — is the most elite and covert of Iran's military branches. Over the past two decades, the corps is believed to have helped arm and train the Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon, Islamic fighters in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and even Sudanese troops fighting in southern Sudan.

The force is part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which are separate from the regular military, report directly to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and are tasked with protecting the Islamic government. The Quds Force, formed in the 1980s and picked from the very best of the Guards, is its special branch for operations outside Iran.

"What Quds does is very specialized, the most dangerous work, operating underground," said Mahan Abedin, an Iran expert and the research director at the London-based Center for the Study of Terrorism.

Now the Bush administration is accusing the force of stirring up turmoil in Iraq.

Its key piece of evidence: "explosively formed projectiles," sophisticated roadside bombs that fire a slug of molten metal that can penetrate armored vehicles. The U.S. military says the Quds Force provided the materials to Iraqi Shiite militias, which used them to attack Americans.

To make their case, U.S. military officials this week showed reporters in Baghdad pieces of EFP equipment, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades that they said were directly traceable to Iranian manufacture.

President Bush told reporters Wednesday he could "say with certainty" that the Quds Force was providing the equipment to militants.

"What we don't know is whether or not the head leaders of Iran ordered the Quds Force to do what they did," Mr. Bush said.

Iran has denied the U.S. accusations. But the question of what the Quds Force and other Iranian operatives are doing in Iraq and how much direction they receive from Iran's top leadership has become a key issue.

The Bush administration has increasingly blamed Iran for Iraq's chaos and taken a more confrontational stance, vowing to stop any intervention. That has raised worries among some Democrats in Washington that the administration is building a case for military action against Iran, a claim Mr. Bush denies.

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All religion is INSANE. Why the narrow attention to one?

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Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/05/wmuslims05.xml

SUICIDE BOMBERS FOLLOW QURAN!!!
Suicide bombers follow Quran
Their preliminary finding is politically explosive: it's their "holy book" the Quran after all, according to intelligence briefings obtained by WND.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52184

TIMELINE OF ISLAMIC TERROR
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212088/tertime.htm

ISLAM ACTS OF PEACE!!!
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/default.htm#attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2001-2003.htm
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2004.htm

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SUBMIT TO ISLAM???....HELL NO!!!
WWIII The 2nd Islamic Crusades
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-521503032546496626&q=WWIII
http://thepeoplescube.com/Islam.php
ISLAM / WHAT THE WEST NEEDS TO KNOW!!
What the West Needs to Know
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/press_release.asp
http://alwaysonwatch.blogspot.com/2006/07/go-see-this-movie_09.html
OBSESSION
http://myspace.com/waragainstthewest
ISLAM HATED WORLDWIDE VIDEO!!!
http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/2006/07/just-added-few-more-blogs-to-my.html
Clinton admits he was offered bin Laden but refuses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqdpAQFQlHQ&mode=related&search=
al-Qaida in Iraq: 4,000 Insurgents Dead
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060928/D8KDUES80.html
ISLAMS WAR WITH THE WORLD!!
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/launchPage.html?072506/072506_ontherecord_ayalon&Daniel%20Ayalon&On_the_Record&Israeli%20ambassador%20to%20U.S.%20on%20long-term%20solution%20to%20Mideast%20crisis&On%20the%20Record&-1&Daniel%20Ayalon&Video%20Launch%20Page

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Islam: What the West Needs to Know
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/press_release.asp
http://alwaysonwatch.blogspot.com/2006/07/go-see-this-movie_09.html
Walid Shoebat One Less Terrorist
One Less Terrorist
http://www.arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=3986
Brigitte Gabriel explodes Mideast 'lies'
Israeli Arab explodes Mideast 'lies'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43175
The unholy past of the Muslim cleric demanding the Pope's execution
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23367406-details/The+unholy past of the Muslim cleric demanding the Pope's execution/article.do

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ISLAM SPREADING HATE & INTOLERANCE!!!
Muslim students 'being taught to despise unbelievers as filth'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2142403,00.html
http://www.shoebat.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaUftcRJ5wo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbaconeatingatheistj ew%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F
http://thepeoplescube.com/Islam.php
School trains suicide bombers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1446003.stm
"Egyptian Cleric Sheik Muhammad Nassar Tells a Group of Children about Child Martyrdom in the Early Days of Islam
Following are excerpts from a children's program hosted by Egyptian cleric, Sheik Muhammad Nassar, which aired on Al-Nas TV on June 15, 2006. Sheik Nassar is identified by Al-Nas TV as a preacher at the Egyptian ministry of religious endowment:
Sheik Muhammad Nassar: Let's listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how, when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith, he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up."
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1185

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Is islam a violation of international law???
islam practices slavery on non muslims
islam practices apartheid on non muslims
islam practices rape on non muslims
islam practices rape on babies and animals
islam practices genocide on non muslims
all are violations of international law and are crimes against humanity
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slavery+islam&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slavery muslim&btnG=Google Search
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4795808.stm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apartheid islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apartheid muslim
Malaysia women 'suffer apartheid'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4784784.stm
A matter of tolerance
http://musingwithmarinamahathir.blogspot.com/2006/12/matter-of-tolerance.html
Marina Mahathir
http://musingwithmarinamahathir.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape muslim&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape islam babies&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rape muslim babies&btnG=Search
Imam Khomeini - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=2137352826&TOCID=2083225445
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=genocide islam&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=genocide muslim

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for you facist nazi islamic muslims....hahahahaha
http://www.henryk-broder.de/tagebuch/karikaturisten.html

Video: Imam prays to stop %u2018oppression and occupation%u2019 at DNC meeting Update: Imam ID%u2019d Update: More info on Imam
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/02/video-imam-prays-to-stop-oppression-and-occupation-at-dnc-meeting/



brigitte gabriel because they hate
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=brigitte+gabriel because they hate&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-200048888_q-Q4tCvDE05ZjvWEZEBwwJjwAAAA%40%40

dnc winter meeting muslim prayer
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkk8TNslFc3sACvVXNyoA?p=dnc winter meeting muslim prayer&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt

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here's your enemy skippy..... try to remember that..... there will be a test later....
UK TV AIRS SHOCK 'UNDERCOVER' LOOK INTO MAINSTREAM BRIT MOSQUES...
Dispatches: Undercover Mosque
This is part one of the much-anticipated UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, exposing evidence of Islamic supremacism, shocking misogyny, and support for violence at a number of Britain%u2019s leading mosques and Muslim institutions. (Thanks again to LGF operative kasper.)
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24018_Dispatches-_Undercover_Mosque&only

Dispatches - Undercover Mosque (1 to 6)
UK Channel 4, aired 15th January 2007.
Radicalisation of UK mosques by Saudi Wahabbism
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dispatches+- Undercover Mosque
http://youtube.com/watch?v=peFQWuk4nuo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MuCLC8kjWCI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x5t5EqWX92k
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yMztM0Z7BYE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V4Zv3BUmwqs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KvjvNScmTQA

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'Obsession'
Documentary gives insight into radical Islam%u2019s global threat
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/launchPage.html?110506/110506_fnl_obsession&%27Obsession%27&FNL&Documentary%20gives%20insight%20into%20radical%20Islam%92s%20global%20threat&Foxlife&-1&%27Obsession%27&Video%20Launch%20Page&News
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/12min.htm
http://myspace.com/waragainstthewest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BL4-mxE87w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUpcpEQtgp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUqXSeCDJc

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this is the real threat to humanity.....
http://stopislam.cjb.net/

Terrorism Awareness Project to wake up Americans and the World
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-mein-kampf

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USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech
December 8, 1941/September 12, 2001
The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.

Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.

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It is OBVIOUS to anyone with a BRAIN that they're doing it again. They will pull the rest of the world into global war. Children of wealthy media tycoons will DIE.

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Re: "Iran's secretive Quds Force, accused by the United States of arming Iraqi militants with deadly bomb-making material"

Why are these baseles and unsubstantiated claims being presented to us as "news".

What if Iran IS helping to arm the Iraqi resistance? Don't they have an obligation to help their neighbors to defend themselves against a brutal and illegal invasion of their country?

What possible bennefit would the Iranian government derive from destabilizing the installed pro-Iranian government of Iraq?

Please put on your thinking caps, CBS.