Iran's elite and mysterious fighters

BAGHDAD — Among the myriad military and intelligence agencies that make up Iran's security forces, none has the skill and reach of the Quds Force, an elite unit nominally within the command structure of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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The Quds Force and its predecessors consisted of the Guard's most skilled warriors. Experts said they were highly secretive commando units sent abroad to help Shiites usurp monarchies in the Persian Gulf, gun down enemies and battle Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. They also reportedly have run operations in Sudan, South Asia and Western Europe.

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At most, the force numbers 2,000, said Mahan Abedin, director of research at the Center for the Study of Terrorism, a London think tank.

"It's a remarkably efficient organization, quite possibly one of the best special forces units in the world," he said.

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There are signs that Quds Force-linked operatives have taken orders from Tehran for overseas missions.

Most notable, Pollack said, were the 1992 killings of an Iranian Kurdish separatist leader and three associates in Berlin by four gunmen led by an Iranian agent. In 1997, a German court found that the slayings had been ordered by a government committee in Tehran that included Khamenei and then-President Hashemi Rafsanjani.

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Its the qods! Run! Run!

If they live and die by the crystals, we're fried!

PB

Galaxy of terror is a Roger Corman job from 1981.
An excellent specimen of cheap science fiction.
Quad- played by long time sci fi guy sid Haig, is a warrior who lives and dies by his throwing crystals.
I'll have to find a better link!

Phenomena! Doo doo dee do do! Phenomena! Doo doo dee do!

PB

This thread's taken a weird turn, hasn't it?

at some point the tension crosses the line into absurdity. It sure has!



PB

...or Imperial Red Guard or Right Guard whatever they were called?

To echo another poster- booga booga indeed!



PB

who has advocated regime change in Iran,he has many followers in the Revolutionary Guard:

"As to my followers, what I know is that my words and my statements have been echoed, have been received by the, a lot of members of the Revolutionary Guards and members of the Ministry of Information, in fact those institutions that belong to the regime, to the Islamic Republic of Iran. What--my words, and the things that have I have said has found a receptive ear among these groups. that IU know." http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=223798&mesg_id=226439

THEY.....ARE.....COMING.....TO.....GET.....YOU!!! BE.....AFRAID! VERY.....AFRAID! THE QUDS!

The units logo is a cartoonishly muscled cow holding two machine guns.