Iraqi forces detain seven Iranian agents in Iraq
The Long War Journal
Iraqi police and border guards have arrested seven members of Irans Revolutionary Guards Corps since Oct 18. The arrests come as the senior US commander in Iraq accused Iran of attempting to bribe Iraqi members of parliament to vote against the status of forces agreement that will allow US forces to remain in Iraq past 2008.
Interesting.



Yes, interesting.
I was thinking that this was the part that you would have picked up on, specially seeing that it formed the lead in the news down these ways.
Of little effect? No, I think it quite an important concession, by the Iraqi government. I have little doubt that their first draft was asking for right to prosecute US servicemen for crimes committed on duty. In other words for what they might perceive as “war crimes”.
Like all compromise dealings, you give in order to win somewhere else. There is little doubt that that section would have been the first to have the red pen treatment.
But at this stage the Iraqis have won the point…