Iran's nuclear ambitions 'could lead to holocaust' ~ Bush

US 'seizes Iranian group in Iraq'

Video images showed a number of people being led from the hotel
Seven Iranians working for the Iranian Electricity Ministry have been arrested by US forces in Baghdad, the Iranian embassy says.
A spokesman told the BBC the embassy had contacted the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and would send a formal protest letter in the morning.

He said the Iranians were in Baghdad in connection with the building of a power station.

The group were detained at the Sheraton Hotel where they were staying.

Video footage showed soldiers leading a group of men, blindfolded and handcuffed, out of the hotel in central Baghdad.

Other soldiers were seen leaving the hotel carrying what appeared to be luggage and a laptop computer bag.

The arrests come shortly after a speech by US President George W Bush in which he criticised Iranian interference in Iraq.

Tension between the US and Iran is running high - with the US accusing Iran of providing arms, money and military training to Shia insurgents in Iraq.

President Bush specifically stated that he had authorised his military commanders in Iraq to confront what he called "Iran's murderous activities" in the country.

Earlier the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that American power in Iraq was on the verge of collapse and this would lead to a huge vacuum which Iran would be willing to fill.

In January, five Iranians - who the US say are linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and were training militants in Iraq - were captured in the northern city of Irbil.

The five remain in US custody.

Gee, whqat colossal gall on the part of Iran--actually trying to provide electricity to Iraqis, which we have proved singularly unable to do. Clearly a terrorist activity on Iran's part.

Bushie will bomb Iran to rubble if he can rather than allow them to make bids on projects the Bushies want for themselves. Economic competition and free trade is terrorism. "The PNAC agenda is at once an ideology and a vision for America. ... military might should be used to further U.S. economic superiority around the world, ... " http://www.fpif.org/papers/02right/index.html

Well I guess the American's will have nothing to complain about if the Iranians round up a few American's and give them a bit of waterboarding?

U.S. forces say free eight Iranians held in Iraq link

This all sounds so retro. Remember "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"?

Source: Israel Told US to Target Iran, Not Iraq
http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=11520