From Raw Story:
BBC World News reported Wednesday that "an embarrassed American military has said it regrets that eight Iranians ... were arrested, handcuffed, and blindfolded by US soldiers in Baghdad." The US now acknowledges that the Iranians are engineers who were in Iraq to help rebuild the local electrical system.
According to BBC, "the eight Iranians were taken away from the Sheraton Hotel in the dead of night to be interrogated. American troops also seized their bags, a laptop computer, and phones. All this just a couple of hours after President Bush began a speech to American veterans which included a bitter attack on Iran, accusing it of arming and training Shiite militants inside Iraq."
"I have authorized our military commanders inside Iraq to confront Tehran's murderous activities," promised Bush in that speech.
The incident was reminiscent of one last January in which US special forces raided an Iranian consulate in northern Iraq, arresting five Iranian diplomats and seizing documents and computers. That raid occurred the day after President Bush's speech announcing the "surge," in which he also accused Iran of "providing material support for attacks on American troops."
2 comments:
These men from Iran were invited by the PM of Iraq. The US is showing that are the controllers of Iraq not the elected leaders. Iran President was laughing at this as Bush said one thing and General Petraeus was apologizing for the mistake. Who's on first, who's on second?
What surprises me Ms. Jackie, is that they got their due process so quickly. Wonder how that happened?
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