A top special operations officer from Lebanon's Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah has been captured in Iraq, where U.S. officials say he played a key role in a January attack that killed five Americans. Ali Mussa Daqduq, an explosives expert, was captured in March in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where he was helping train and lead Shiite militias fighting coalition troops, U.S. intelligence officials told CNN.
Something is going off here, and I think it's my bullshit detector. The reasons why the bullshit detector is going off are not entirely clear to me.. I think there is way more to this story. The U.S. military declined official comment on Daqduq's arrest, as did the Iraqi government. But documents and forensic evidence, seen by members of the Iraqi government and shown to CNN, support the claims.
It's auspicious timing.. CI? I've been thinking lately that this would be the time to create a link between the Iraqi insurgency, Hezbollah, and Iran in the public eye. It seems like a very Bushie thing to do. The first thing you do to your enemy is clearly define them and lump them all together, regardless of if it all actually fits. Are we about to see that game play out? "I say clearly that we do not accept any logistic, financial, or any other kind of support from anyone outside the borders of Iraq," said Rassim al-Marwani, Sadr's cultural adviser.
That much, I have reason to believe is truthful, even if it is omitting much. In this context, "outside the borders of Iraq" can mean several things. If I had to guess, aid is accepted from anyone, at long as the strings attached only go to local tribes. In the absence of a state, these folks always revert to tribes when it comes to loyalties they are willing to honor and accept. And for that matter, the western concept of a nation-state is one of the things they are trying to reject. In that way, the Iran/Iraq border doesn't really matter all that much to them. When it comes down to it, they don't seem to like each other that much. They share beliefs, and not much else. But then, I really have no idea what I'm talking about... Officials: Captured Hezbollah agent helped plan deadly Karbala raid - CNN.com | 
