Substantiated Rumors

Apr 04, 2007 07:07

On 1-26-2006, "President George W. Bush warned on Friday if Iranians attempt to launch attacks against Americans or Iraqis inside Iraq, "we will stop them," [1]

On 1-14-2007, "Deputy Governor General of Iran's southern province of Hormuzgan strongly rejected rumors about eruption of clashes between Iranian and US battleships in the Persian Gulf." [2]

On 1-11-2007 "helicopter-born US forces launched a surprise raid on a long-established Iranian liaison office in the city of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. They captured five relatively junior Iranian officials whom the US accuses of being intelligence agents and still holds.

In reality the US attack had a far more ambitious objective, The Independent has learned. The aim of the raid, launched without informing the Kurdish authorities, was to seize two men at the very heart of the Iranian security establishment." [3]

Updated 4-4-2007

[1] http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-26T174228Z_01_WBT006498_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-BUSH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
[2] http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8510240464
[3] http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww3/iran_us_raid_botched_raid_that_led_to_hostage_crisis.htm