WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.
This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official.
Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.
Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.
Two senior U.S. defense officials confirmed to ABC News earlier reports that fighters from the Mahdi army have traveled to Lebanon to receive training from Hezbollah.
While the New York Times reported that as many as 2,000 Iraqi militia fighters had received training in Lebanon, one of the senior officials said he believed the number was "closer to 1,000." Officials say a much smaller number of Hezbollah fighters have also traveled through Syria and into Iraq to provide training.
U.S. intelligence officials believe the number of Al-Sadr's Mahdi army now includes 40,000 fighters, making it an especially formidable force.
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Another reason why Ahmadinejad is full of shit and why asking Iran for advice on how to stop sectarian violence in Iraq is a stupid idea.
__________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -CoC
Last edited by Robtard on Nov 30th, 2006 at 09:18 PM
wow, thats funny and cuts SS. the thought of yet another war and thousands of kids being forced over seas and killed along with tens and quite possibly hundreds of thousands of civilians, not to mention exponentially increased domestic threat. so glad you're lighthearted enough to make a playful partisan jab out of it, and at the same time jack off to the man who put us in this doomsday scenario for no ****ing reason other than oil and profit. you're a really funny guy. dead kids and unemployable-for-life multiple limb amputees coming home by the hundreds per day. funny stuff, huh?
they are there because people like you, by the millions, blindly supported the baseless occupation of a nation needed to keep iran in check. people like you need to read at least half as much as you run your ****ing mouth and make a joke out of it all, complete with your cute little smilies...or maybe you should just enlist. but that wont happen, will it? **** supporting the troops. BE ONE if you're so gung ho about all this.
Muslims have been killing muslims very effectively before we entered the picture.
Really we are uniting the Muslim world more then ever.
Going to the middle east was on false pretense (whatever call me shit but I'm ok with that) however their plan was horrible and now it's going to turn into an even bigger bowl of diarrhea stew.
1,983 Cool points to whomever can name that movie.
__________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -CoC
Last edited by Robtard on Nov 30th, 2006 at 09:58 PM
The US should supply them with there weapons then we could make a profit selling guns to them and then have fun kill. Sounds like a win win situation to me.
After Iraq, I'm a little uneasy going off of anything except concrete absolute evidence. I don't trust Iran worth a damn, but this isn't enough to make me jump up and down and shout "They did it! They did it!"
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"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out."
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