Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list

[kpete]

Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list
By Warren P. Strobel and Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker.

Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, who helped U.S.-backed Iraqi leaders negotiate a deal with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to stop the fighting in Iraq's largely Shiite south, is named on U.S. Treasury Department and U.N. Security Council watch lists for alleged involvement in terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology.

His role as peacemaker, which McClatchy first reported Sunday, underscores Iran's entrenched political power and its alliances in Iraq, according to analysts.

"The Iranians are into a lot of things, and have a lot of influence," said Judith Yaphe, a former CIA analyst who's now at the National Defense University in Washington.

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[leftchick]

1. tell me again which candidate voted for this crap?

so she would not look soft on terra?

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Thank to Kyl-Lieberman, the whole Iranian army is on the "wacth list..."

...and thanks to those who voted for it (ya know who I mean).

[KharmaTrain]

3. Look Whose A Real Honest Broker...

One of the many myths of our corporate media is how the U.S. can play "honest broker" in any international mess we step into. Forget that we create many of those messes, but the assumption is this country has some "moral superiority" via its economic and military power to play the "grown-up" with all the savage little children around the world. It's this worldview that sold many of the sheeple into a nebulous "war on terra" and continues to distort the reality...that inturn will lead to many more needless American deaths in Iraq.

If this country had a smart leader, he'd see the opportunity to dump this mess on Iran. Let them try to broker deals between all the sides here that would tie them down both militarily and economically...and give our military the cover to get the hell out. But of course, this probably makes too much sense.