Nbadan
05-09-2008, 12:22 PM
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They're not from Iran....(Likely from Saudi Arabia, but that's not important)
Anyone remember all the 'WMD programs' the chicken-hawks told us there were in Iraq, pre-2003?
More recently, they've been telling us about the "Iranian arms" that have been flowing in to non-governmental or anti-governmental forces inside Iraq. Last week, the US commanders in Iraq even planned a big "show and tell" event in Karbala at which thousands of Iranian-supplied arms that had been seized by the US and their Iraqi allies would be shown off to the media before being destroyed.
But guess what? The LA Times's Tina Sussman tells us that the event was canceled after the United States realized none of the weapons were really from Iran...
Iraqi officials also have accused Iran of meddling in violence and had echoed the U.S. accusations of new Iranian-made arms being found in Basra. But neither the United States nor Iraq has displayed any of the alleged arms to the public or press, and lately it is looking less likely they will. U.S. military officials said it was up to the Iraqis to show the items; Iraqi officials lately have backed off the accusations against Iran.
A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin.
When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.
Link (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html)
Meanwhile, an Iraqi delegation went to Tehran last week to confront them with the (arms-supply) accusations. The Iranian denied the accusations, and the Iranian say that as long as U.S. forces continue to take part in military action in Iraq's Shiite strongholds it won't consider holding further talks with Washington on how to stabilize Iraq....so there you go....
They're not from Iran....(Likely from Saudi Arabia, but that's not important)
Anyone remember all the 'WMD programs' the chicken-hawks told us there were in Iraq, pre-2003?
More recently, they've been telling us about the "Iranian arms" that have been flowing in to non-governmental or anti-governmental forces inside Iraq. Last week, the US commanders in Iraq even planned a big "show and tell" event in Karbala at which thousands of Iranian-supplied arms that had been seized by the US and their Iraqi allies would be shown off to the media before being destroyed.
But guess what? The LA Times's Tina Sussman tells us that the event was canceled after the United States realized none of the weapons were really from Iran...
Iraqi officials also have accused Iran of meddling in violence and had echoed the U.S. accusations of new Iranian-made arms being found in Basra. But neither the United States nor Iraq has displayed any of the alleged arms to the public or press, and lately it is looking less likely they will. U.S. military officials said it was up to the Iraqis to show the items; Iraqi officials lately have backed off the accusations against Iran.
A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin.
When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.
Link (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html)
Meanwhile, an Iraqi delegation went to Tehran last week to confront them with the (arms-supply) accusations. The Iranian denied the accusations, and the Iranian say that as long as U.S. forces continue to take part in military action in Iraq's Shiite strongholds it won't consider holding further talks with Washington on how to stabilize Iraq....so there you go....