Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia
Published Thu, Nov 30 2006 8:52 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, War on Terror
The blogosphere has been talking about it for years. Iran is at least in part responsible for the so-called insurgency in Iraq. Now, even ABC News reports on what appears to be proof that Iran is supplying the Mahdi Army with both weaponry and training.
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.
Anyone that still believes that Iran is serious about brokering a peace in Iraq should put away their crack pipes. This includes former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and his Iraq Commission, who according to leaks will suggest next Wednesday that the U.S. negotiate with these backstabbing terrorist sponsoring madmen.
Linked at Rightwing Guy - Why Have We Yet To Take Out al-Sadr, Rightwing Guy - If The Iraq Study Group Wants To Retreat, We Cannot Follow.
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