Iraqi News Source: Iranian Forces Massing on Iraqi Border

[sabra]

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/879/Arab_Media_Report_Crackdown_Anxiety

Az-Zaman (international) claimed that Iranian forces are massing across the borders from Suleymaniya in Northern Iraq. The newspaper linked these developments to the tensions aroused by the arrest of five Iranian officials in Arbeel by American forces earlier this month. While the US claims that the Iranians are linked to acts of terrorism in Iraq and are part of the Iranian intelligence apparatus, Iran and some Iraqi politicians assert that the Iranians were diplomats and call for their release.

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Crowds Sulaymaniyah near the Iranian and the arrest of the closest aides to al-Sadr

من جانبها كشفت مصادر كردية رسمية ان ايران التي هددت بتقديم شكوي الي الأمم المتحدة اذا لم تطلق القوات الامريكية معتقلي اربيل الخمسة تعزز قواتها في سيران بند وباشماخ وهما معبران حدوديان في منطقتي بنجوين شمال السليمانية في وقت اشارت مصادر كردية الي تعزيزات ايرانية في منطقة بردة رش قرب قلعة دزة الواقعة شمال السليمانية تعززها مختلف أنواع الاسلحة الخفيفة والثقيلة.

For its part, Kurdish official sources revealed that Iran, which threatened to complain to the United Nations if the American forces did not release detainees Irbil five strengthen its forces in the Seiran item Bashmakh Meaningful two passes in the Panjwin Sulaymaniyah in northern Kurdish sources pointed to the Iranian reinforcements in the area of the verse spraying near Qal'at Dizah situated to the north of Sulaymaniyah promote various kinds of heavy and light arms.

[babylonsister]

1. * wants to foment war, so he can act with impunity. I think not, and hope

what's going on in the US (against * ) is realized by other countries.

[Recursion]

2. This was exactly Van Riper's winning wargame move

If you know the US is going to attack you, you hit first rather than waiting for us to pretend to negotiate. Van Riper showed this, and they ignored it.

[nebenaube]

4. I didn't know what you were refering to so I found it for others to see

In Millennium Challenge 2002, a $250 million war game designed to test the new technologies and concepts of transformation and network-centric warfare—in which U.S. forces are data-linked with one another as never before—Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, former president of the Marine Corps University, was asked to command the "enemy" forces. In the first days of that mock battle, he used unconventional methods, including a preemptive attack that featured air-, sea-, and ground-launched cruise missiles to sink 16 American ships. After the American forces decided to refloat the ships and restart the game, Van Riper stepped aside from his role, contending that the rest of the game was scripted for American victory.

[Wiley50]

3. yeah, it's gonna be a rumble

and the Stennis just barely left LA to pick up planes

i hate watching trainwrecks that i see coming a long way off
but can do nothing to stop

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Iran had an earthquake in that same region...4.4