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| Iraq |
| US Sayz Iranians Arming Shi'ite Militants |
| 2007-02-11 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military officials on Sunday accused the highest levels of the Iranian leadership of arming Shiite militants in Iraq with sophisticated armor-piercing roadside bombs that have killed more than 170 American forces. The military command in Baghdad denied, however, that any newly smuggled Iranian weapons were behind the five U.S. military helicopter crashes since Jan. 20 — four that were shot out of the sky by insurgent gunfire. A fifth crash has tentatively been blamed on mechanical failure. In the same period, two private security company helicopters also have crashed but the cause was unclear. The deadly and highly sophisticated weapons the U.S. military said it traced to Iran are known as "explosively formed penetrators," or EFPs. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 Yea, so? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-11 22:56 |
| #2 FREEREPUBLIC > Iran announces it has new 2000-km missle + warheads for same [Shahab 4?]. Large parts of Western, Eastern Europe, ME, and portions of Western China in range. Near enuff to Moscow to recomm to Putin to build that fallback Capital close to Siberia-Far East. NET > prob derived from circa 18-24? Soviet SS-N-6 designs purchased from North Korea. In addition, WMF.com > RADIO ISRAEL named as possib source > Iran is indeed smuggling disassembled Anti-Air SAM's hidden in disguised spaces built within normal truck vehix carrying contrux and other goods/cargoes to civilian areas where Radicalists operate andor control. Many truck operators-crews have been trained to operate various combat functions of the SAM's - IN TRUE TERRORIST FORM, SAM CREWS MAY NOT ALL BE MEMBERS OF THE SAME RADIC OR TERROR ORG/CELL(S). NETTER SPECULATION > NUTSHELL - IRAN is getting ready to destabilize Israel's + other pro-USA/Moder/ anti-Islamist nations by attacking and destroying their international air travel and air-centric logistics capabilities. Iran also allegedly wants retaliation in case its recently captured diplomats-officios in Iraq are NOT released. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-11 20:51 |
| #1 Bill Roggio has a more extensive post up on this topic. Excerpts: "The Iranian suspects detained in Irbil have confirmed these reports and we have found with them maps and explosives-related material. Those Iranians were trying to get rid of these documents in the lavatories... the Iraqi government has notified us that (the Iranians detained in Irbil) were not diplomats and had no passports." The Irbil raid in early January netted the most significant evidence, as well as a senior member of the Iranian Qods Force. Six Iranians were detained in Irbil, including Mohsin Chizari, the operational commander of the Qods Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps specialized force that is equivalent to U.S. Special Forces. During the Irbil raid, "the Iranians were caught trying to flush documents down the toilet," and "bags of their hair were found... indicating they had tried to change their appearance." Chizari was "apprehended after slipping back into Iraq after a 10-month absence." Earlier it was reported Chizari was detained in the Baghdad raid, and subsequently released. The smuggling routes have largely been identified, with "most of the components are entering Iraq near Amarah, the Iranian border city of Meran, and the Basra area of southern Iraq." |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-02-11 17:37 |