Iran's Proxy War
Tehran is on the offensive against us throughout the Middle East. Will Congress respond?
Sen Joseph Lieberman
Earlier this week, the U.S. military made public new and disturbing information about the proxy war that Iran is waging against American soldiers and our allies in Iraq.
According to Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, the Iranian government has been using the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah to train and organize Iraqi extremists, who are responsible in turn for the murder of American service members.
Gen. Bergner also revealed that the Quds Force--a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps whose mission is to finance, arm and equip foreign Islamist terrorist movements--has taken groups of up to 60 Iraqi insurgents at a time and brought them to three camps near Tehran, where they have received instruction in the use of mortars, rockets, improvised explosive devices and other deadly tools of guerrilla warfare that they use against our troops. Iran has also funded its Iraqi proxies generously, to the tune of $3 million a month. ...
Court Reverses Anna Diggs Taylor
Ed Morrissey
CQ readers will recall the decision by Detroit federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor that ruled Bush's warrantless surveillance of international communications illegal and demanded a cessation of the NSA's activities in this program last fall. At the time, I argued that her reasoning was flawed, especially regarding the legal standing of the plaintiffs. Today the appellate court agreed, directing Taylor to dismiss the charges: ...
