[news] Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration Steps Up its Secret Moves Against Iran

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Seymour M. Hersh - Sunday, June 29, 2008

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq...since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation (read torture - **MW**), and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran...have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials.  


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