Video "Iranian General Qassem Soleymani Cries"
this is an old video, not sure of the date, but he appears to be crying for 'martyrs' killed in fighting Saddam's aggression.
they spell his name with a G here. Is it Saddam Hussein.
and by the way…. you will see his tears are about as real as Bill Clintons crying is.
>Ghasem Soleymani is one of the Iranian commanders during their Holy Defence against Saddam's aggression.
quassam cries
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
This is interesting….maybe
If that was Quassam in the pic with John NoName, and Noname was plotting with Syrian rebels against Assad, then he was doing it at the same time Quassam was working with Assad!
>” For Suleimani, saving Assad seemed a matter of pride, especially if it meant distinguishing himself from the Americans. “Suleimani told us the Iranians would do whatever was necessary,” a former Iraqi leader told me. “He said, ‘We’re not like the Americans. We don’t abandon our friends.’ ”
>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
Although the Iranians were severely strained by American sanctions, imposed to stop the regime from developing a nuclear weapon, they were unstinting in their efforts to save Assad. Among other things, they extended a seven-billion-dollar loan to shore up the Syrian economy.
>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
Revolutionary Guard called the Quds Force. The force is the sharp instrument of Iranian foreign policy, roughly analogous to a combined C.I.A. and Special Forces; its name comes from the Persian word for Jerusalem, which its fighters have promised to liberate. Since 1979, its goal has been to subvert Iran’s enemies and extend the country’s influence across the Middle East.
On at least one occasion, Suleimani himself was wounded. Still, he didn’t lose enthusiasm for his work. In the nineteen-eighties, Reuel Marc Gerecht was a young C.I.A. officer posted to Istanbul, where he recruited from the thousands of Iranian soldiers who went there to recuperate. “You’d get a whole variety of guardsmen,” Gerecht, who has written extensively on Iran, told me. “You’d get clerics, you’d get people who came to breathe and whore and drink.” Gerecht divided the veterans into two groups. “There were the broken and the burned out, the hollow-eyed—the guys who had been destroyed,” he said. “And then there were the bright-eyed guys who just couldn’t wait to get back to the front. I’d put Suleimani in the latter category.”
Ryan Crocker, the American Ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009, got a similar feeling. During the Iraq War, Crocker sometimes dealt with Suleimani indirectly, through Iraqi leaders who shuttled in and out of Tehran. Once, he asked one of the Iraqis if Suleimani was especially religious. The answer was “Not really,” Crocker told me. “He attends mosque periodically. Religion doesn’t drive him. Nationalism drives him, and the love of the fight.”
.>Reuel Marc Gerecht was a young C.I.A. officer posted to Istanbul, where he recruited from the thousands of Iranian soldiers who went there to recuperate
This was our C_A operating in the ME.
Gerecht has nevertheless argued that Islamic fundamentalists, not Muslim liberals, will be the engine of political reform and democratization in the Middle East
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuel_Marc_Gerecht
>>Reuel Marc Gerecht
if this guy has a twitter, I wish somebody on twitter would ask him if he recruited Quassam for C_A in the 80s?
https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1213412925572079616
https://twitter.com/mdubowitz/status/1213097478981074956
https://twitter.com/drzeleny/status/1213297769059946502
well it appears this Reuel Marc Gerecht does not have a twitter account, which is a good thing for him right now because he probably recruited Quassam in the 80s.
And it appears Gerecht is trying to distance himself from Quassam.
hey, if you know the plan, who are you? and let us in on it