IRGC Troops said to be among Iranian hostages in Syria.

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In the video, the kidnappers claim that their hostages are members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), even though Iranian authorities had announced that they were pilgrims headed for the Shiite shrine of Zeinabiyeh.

The video shows the captives seated behind the armed Syrian fighters, as a rebel leader says: "They are Iranian thugs who were in Damascus for a field reconnaissance mission."

The New York Times reports that Col. Malik al-Kurdi, a deputy commander of the Free Syrian Army, has said that the group involved in kidnapping the 48 Iranians had acted independently, without informing the Free Syrian Army


http://www.payvand.com/news/12/aug/1036.html

This can't end well... :nope:

[Jimbuna]

Hopefully this won't be the excuse Iran needs to send in troops in support of Assad bringing about a countermove by Turkry :hmmm:

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Apparently several were just killed in a government air strike. The FSA has threatened to kill the rest if the air attacks don't stop.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-syria-crisis-iraniansbre8750sj-20120806,0,5211863.story

[Jimbuna]

Getting worse by the hour :nope: