Worst kept secret revealed.

I found the link at Hot Air, and followed it. The New York Times has revealed in a startling article, that Iran is training and supporting the terrorists who are killing not only the American Troops in the country, but the Iraqi Civilians. 

American officials have long cited Iranian training and weapons as reasons for the lethality of attacks by Shiite fighters in Iraq. Iranian officials deny that such training takes place.

Now, more than 80 pages of newly declassified intelligence documents for the first time describe in detail an elaborate network used by Iraqis to gain entry into Iran and train under Iranian supervision. They offer the most comprehensive account to date to support American claims about Iranian efforts to build a proxy force in Iraq. Those claims have become highly politicized, with Bush administration critics charging that accounts of Iranian involvement have been exaggerated.

Wow, the New York Times has finally reported that there are terrorists trained by the Iranian Government. This daring report by the Times probably just about wiped out their investigative skills for the decade. 

The prisoners’ accounts cannot be independently verified. Yet the detainees gave strikingly similar details about training compounds in Iran, a clandestine network of safe houses in Iran and Iraq they used to reach the camps and intra-Shiite tensions at the camps between the Arab Iraqis and their Persian Iranian trainers.

Well, while you all in New York are serving cheese and wine to the Iranian President next time he's in town, why not ask him about this? You could probably manage to ask him before his ticker tape parade, if you're not too busy beating up on McCain supporters to get around to it. 

Iraq send two captured Iranian Military Commanders home

On Christmas day, I posted a story about how two Iranian Military officers, high ranking officers, were captured in Iraq during a sweep of suspected "insurgents" (you can call them that, it's fairly accurate, however TERRORIST is more accurate don't you think?) with plans and documents on them which were meant to aid terrorists in Iraq. These two officers have been further identified, and HOT Air is where I found this story.

One of the commanders, identified by officials simply as Chizari, was the third-highest-ranking official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds Brigade, the unit most active in aiding, arming and training groups outside Iran, including Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, U.S. officials said. The other commander was described as equally significant to Iran's support of foreign militaries but not as high-ranking.
American military forces nabbed the two men in raids last week. Their capture, U.S. officials said, represents the strongest evidence yet that Tehran's Shiite theocracy is meddling in Iraq's affairs and strengthening its relationship with the government in Baghdad.
U.S. defense officials familiar with the raids said the captured Iranians had detailed weapons lists, documents pertaining to shipments of weapons into Iraq, organizational charts, telephone records and maps, among other sensitive intelligence information. Officials were particularly concerned by the fact that the Iranians had information about importing modern, specially shaped explosive charges into Iraq, weapons that have been used in roadside bombs to target U.S. military armored vehicles.

Of course, the State Department types which recognizes Diplomatic Immunity to be sacrosanct, has decided that overall this is a good thing.

Despite their frustration at the release of the Iranians, U.S. officials said a strong message has been sent to Iran that its operatives will be tracked down and that it will be held accountable for its activities in Iraq.
"Iranians have been pushing the envelope in Iraq and elsewhere, and it's a good thing they learn there are consequences," a U.S. official said, on condition of anonymity.

Yes, apparently the consequences for assisting a Terrorist Organization is two people with diplomatic immunity are sent home. I bet the State Department even recommended a time out for the bad boys.

It is called being PNG'd, or Persona Non Grata. That is Diplomatic Speak, or Diplospeak, for Go Home NOW. Usually within 24 hours. As you can guess, being told to leave someone else's house isn't exactly a big punishment. I mean, being told to go home isn't exactly an insult is it? Of course, that is the Diplomatic manner in which the game is played. Of course, the Diplomatic Status is one of those things we demand be recognized, and it's been abused since it was first put into practice. Always has been, probably always will be abused by all the nations who use it.

I'm going to point out that Hot Air is giving credit to a blog that is new to me, Uncommon Misconceptions. I have read a few of his articles, and like it so far.

What does this mean in relation to the Iraq Surrender Report?

The famous Iraqi Study (Surrender Monkeys) Group report leaned heavily on the idea of negotiating with Terrorist Supporting States (nations) including Syria and Iran.

Iran which has been identified as the nation which is manufacturing a number of Explosive devices which have been used against United States and Allied troops. However despite this action by Iran, the Iraq Surrender Group suggested that we negotiate with the Terrorist supporting nation state. The apparent motive of this negotiation would be to reduce the effect of terrorism and attacks by Shiite groups. Groups in Iraq that are using these munitions provided by Iran to kill allies and innocent Iraqi civilians.

However this weekend, for some reason, as part of the holiday weekend news dump, which means that the information won't get the attention it deserves, it was reported that Iranian senior military personnel and two diplomats were captured during a sweep of suspected insurgents.

The Diplomats were released, but the senior military Officers were detained, as they did not have diplomatic papers.

The United States is now holding, apparently for the first time, Iranians who it suspects of planning attacks. One senior administration official said, “This is going to be a tense but clarifying moment.”
“It’s our position that the
Iraqis have to seize this opportunity to sort out with the Iranians just what kind of behavior they are going to tolerate,” the official said, declining to speak on the record because the details of the raid and investigation were not yet public. “They are going to have to confront the evidence that the Iranians are deeply involved in some of the acts of violence.”

In short, the Iraqi's need to ask Iran how long the Iranian Military Officers are going to be working in Iraq as Terrorists.

American and Iraqi officials have long accused Iran of interfering in this country’s internal affairs, but have rarely produced evidence. The administration presented last week’s arrests as a potential confirmation of the link. Mr. Johndroe said, “We suspect this event validates our claims about Iranian meddling, but we want to finish our investigation of the detained Iranians before characterizing their activities.” He added: “We will be better able to explain what this means about the larger picture after we finish our investigation.”
In the raids, the Americans also detained a number of Iraqis. Western and Iraqi officials said that following normal protocol, the two Iranian diplomats were turned over to the Iraqi government after being questioned. The Iraqis, in turn, released them to the Iranian Embassy. An Iraqi official said his government had strained to keep the affair out of the public eye to avoid scuttling the talks with Iran that were now under way.

Why of course, we wouldn't want to endanger the peace talks just because the other party at the table is not only lying but is working to overthrow the elected government of Iraq. That might mess up the implementation of the Iraq Surrender plan that has been embraced by the moronic left.

More Great News in Global Warming

Even the United Nations is now backing off the Global Warming is destroying the earth claims of the Environmental Wackos.

Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.

Of course, they can't just report the news, and allow people to draw their own conclusions. They have to point out that while this helps prove the Global Warming skeptics, like me, that isn't the intent.

Climate change sceptics are expected to seize on the revised figures as evidence that action to combat global warming is less urgent.
Scientists insist that the lower estimates for sea levels and the human impact on global warming are simply a refinement due to better data on how climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming.

In addition to my previously posted cure to global warming, we do have another possible cure for Global Warming out of another left wing gathering. It seems that even a small scale nuclear war would have "catastrophic" effects on the environment including reduced Ozone production.

The lingering effects could re-shape the environment in ways never conceived. In terms of climate, a nuclear blast could plunge temperatures across large swaths of the globe. "It would be the largest climate change in recorded human history," Alan Robock, associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction at Rutgers' Cook College and another member of the research team.

Plunging Temperatures, well that would stop or at least delay the Global Warming wouldn't it?

The assembled nutty professors...... generated a series of computer simulations of potential climate anomalies caused by a small-scale nuclear war.
"We looked at a scenario of a regional nuclear conflict say between India and Pakistan where each of them used 50 weapons on cities in the other country that would generate a lot of smoke," Robock told LiveScience.
They discovered the smoke emissions would plunge temperatures by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.25 degrees Celsius) over large areas of North America and Eurasia—areas far removed from the countries involved in the conflict.

So a Nuclear War involving roughly 100 warheads would do more cooling than the Kyoto Treaty's .04 degrees C reduction and unlike Kyoto, it would be immediate? Perhaps we have another good reason to reconsider Nuclear War. I mean, let's consider for a moment, if we dropped the Bomb on Iran, not only would we rid the world of a Terrorist Supporting state, but we would also reduce Global Warming for up to ten years.

It would also be much cheaper to drop a few old Nukes on Iran, than it would to implement Kyoto. The Nukes have already been paid for, while Kyoto would cost us hundreds of millions of dollars for much less result.