Originally posted by oldmole:
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Originally posted by Tanks35:
This latest detainee was caught in the act of bringing weapons into Iraq, That's what president alphabet calls official business! 
Tanks, if the guy was smuggling diddly squat, that evidence would be all over the headlines this morning in living color. That we only see him being accused of it is just pissing the Iraqis off, something we don't particularly need to do right at present.
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ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) -- The government of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region demanded the immediate release on Friday of an Iranian arrested by US troops in a raid that sparked a new row between Washington and Tehran.
"We consider this action by the Americans to be illegal," said a statement from the office of regional president Massud Barzani.
The US military arrested the Iranian on suspicion of smuggling bombs on Thursday at a hotel in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah which forms part of the Kurdish region.
Iran condemned what it called the "unwarranted" arrest of an official it said was in Iraq at the invitation of the Kurdish regional government and lodged a strong protest with the authorities in Baghdad.
"We are following this file with the Iraqis to try to resolve the affair," said an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We have no information on where he is being held and we have no contact with those who seized him," the diplomat added.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070921115213.htm 
