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Iran's 'invisible man'
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August 1, 2008
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The Brigadier General who heads Tehran's covert operations in Iraq will mastermind revenge strikes if Iran is attacked.
IF, AS IS threatened, the United States or Israel attacks Iran - and there are signs that a major strike may be likely before George W. Bush's term expires next January - a key figure in unleashing much of the threatened retaliation by Tehran is a shadowy general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who until a few weeks ago was little known, even to western intelligence services.
Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani, who commands the corps' elite and largely clandestine Quds Force, has long been the invisible man in Iran's intelligence hierarchy and an enigma to ...
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