Iran’s dep. defense minister for eight years up until 2005 - and before that a prominent Revolutionary Guards General, Ali Reza Asquari, 63, has not been seen since his disappearance in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul on Feb. 7.
The missing general has been identified as the officer in charge of Iranian undercover operations in central Iraq, according to DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources. He is believed to have been linked to – or participated in - the armed group which stormed the US-Iraqi command center in Karbala south of Baghdad Jan. 20 and snatched five American officers. They were shot outside the Shiite city.
An Middle East intelligence source told DEBKAfile that the Americans could not let this premeditated outrage go unanswered and had been hunting the Iranian general ever since.
------------------------------------------
Possible Slant Indicator
*DEBKAfile is an Israeli, Jerusalem-based English language open source intelligence website .
It began in the summer of 2000, and has since received Forbes' Best of The Web award. Forbes identifies the best part of the website as its archives, but decries the fact that "most of the information is attributed to unidentified sources."
No comments:
Post a Comment