Elite Iranian agent arrested in Iraq

And according to WorldNetDaily. he had a $150.000 payroll on him. Tsk, tsk. Sloppy tradecraft--almost as sloppy as when Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the J-3 of Al-Qaeda, got caught literally with his pants down and with a laptop computer with passwords stored in readily accessible and readable files.

And to think it happened shortly after we had this from MEMRI (the confession of a key Iraq insurgent, broadcast on Iraqi TV) as I last reported here--and not only I but many other bloggers as well.

Iran has at least two motives for such monkeyshines. First, they're trying to further the spread of Islam. And second, they've itched to get that territory back ever since Alexander the Great took it away from them, after Cyrus the Great, and his uncle and chief lieutenant Cyaxares or "Darius the Mede," captured it from Nebuchadnezzar's grandson Belshazzar. [Daniel 5] The Kingdom of the Parthians, which inherited the core territory of the Persian Empire, had to sign a peace treaty with Sulla the Happy that demarked their sphere of influence at the Euphrates River. The modern Iranians are the modern heirs to the Kingdom of the Parthians, Darius III, Cyrus, and all the rest of them. And they've never given up on regaining control of what was once the core territory of the Babylonian Empire.

I'll say it again: Bush and his administration need to understand what we're fighting, and how back the territorial and ideological ambitions go. And all you anti-war peaceniks out there have got some major 'splainin' to do.