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More on Karbala

Omar at Iraq the Model isn’t the only one who thinks the Karbala attack, which killed Army CPT Brian Freeman and abducted four others who were later murdered, was an Iranian operation. Freelance embed Bill Roggio lines up and knocks over the dominoes:

"This raid required specific intelligence, in depth training for the agents to pass as American troops, resources to provide for weapons, vehicles, uniforms, identification, radios and other items needed to successfully carry out the mission."

Jimbo at Black Five agrees: "The location of the target, the sophistication of the operation, the lack of beheading, all point to a precision raid by highly-trained regular military forces. Iran did this."

So, are we finally going to strike back at the principal supporters of terrorism in the world or are we going to continue to play pattycake with the toothless dictator’s club of the UN? If Bush doesn’t mind thumbing his nose at the anti-war Democrat Congress over Iraq, surely he won’t quail at finally doing what he should have done back in 2003–hitting Iran and its crony-in-evil Syria?

An inside job

Omar at Iraq the Model thinks the killings of those five American troops in Karbala last Saturday was not the usual insurgent or sectarian violence but more likely an inside job engineered by Iran with the cooperation of the local Iraqi police.

"…this was not just a brazen attack by some militia or terrorists; behind this is a message and a threat from Iran and its surrogates…"

If that proves to be true–and American troops are interrogating everyone involved–there might soon be some use for the strike fighters of those two carrier groups soon to be in the Persian Gulf.

Ben of Mesopotamia turns out to have known one of the slain and adds a bit of intel that backs Omar: "…my friend Captain Brian Freeman was killed in Karbala. (I don’t know if his family has been briefed on the details, so for now it suffices to say that Brian and four other members of his Civil Affairs team were killed by militia members, likely Jaish al Mahdi trained in Iran)."

UPDATE  This Jan. 26 AP story, more careful than much of their Iraq reporting, is about the latest the military knows and is willing to disclose about the incident, in which Freeman died first and four others were abducted before being slain. Includes the unconfirmed idea that one of the attackers was a blonde.