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Listening too long to one song:
My man Eli is in Iraq, and he brings his considerable talents to reporting out connections between the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Kurdish Islamists. Osman Ali Mustapha, a Kurdish ex-policeman turned Iranian asset, tells Eli that the head of the IRGC's Qods Force assured him that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei backed IRGC efforts to foster terrorism within Iraq.
The piece includes the line, "The account of Mr. Mustapha would settle the question of whether the commander of Iran's Quds Force was acting on his own." Eli notes that General Petraeus didn't go so far in his press conference yesterday with respect to Iran -- and it's worth adding that Kurdish detainees have given dubious accounts before -- but of course isn't inconceivable that Iran would fight a proxy war against the U.S. and its allies in Iraq. Looking back on my earlier writings, it's fair to say that I've not been sufficiently open to this prospect. --Spencer Ackerman
So ... a guy in KRG custody who openly admits to having played several sides in exchange for creature comforts is a reliable source as long as they are published by a neocon rag? That Iran would hook up with Salafi jihadists who proclaim the Iranians as Safavid occupiers out to destroy Sunni Islam? |
