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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Iranian border cops mess w/bull, get horns |
| 2004-03-16 |
| The US army sought yesterday to play down a clash between its troops and Iranian border guards who exchanged fire in north-eastern Iraq on Sunday night. What’s the big deal? Jihadis attacked, so we sent ’em to their virgins. SSDD. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, military spokesman for the coalition provisional authority (CPA), said yesterday that a patrol from the 4th infantry division carrying out "routine border operations" came under fire from It won’t be the last time, either. An unnamed foreign ministry official in Tehran yesterday denied to the Associated Press news agency that any incident had taken place despite initial reports that an Iranian might have been wounded or killed. Nothing to see here. Move along. "I have spoken to several officials and there is no truth to this report," an Iranian Interior Ministry official told Reuters news agency. "There was no such skirmish." ... because if there had been a scuffle, your brave Islamozoids would have easily dispatched the infidel crusader pig-monkeys, right? Brig Gen Kimmitt said yesterday: "We are trying to ascertain what happened at the scene. [But] we do not see this as revolutionary or a major incident." The firefight comes at a more than usually tense time in US-Iranian relations as Washington puts pressure on Tehran to open up its nuclear facilities to inspection. It also came soon after the CPA announced it would be reducing the number of border crossing points between Iran and Iraq from 19 to three in the next few days. The US, which has repeatedly accused Tehran and Damascus of not doing enough to control alleged militants crossing into Iraq, is now committed to increasing security first on the Iranian border and then on Iraq’s boundary with Syria. Any bets on whether the Afghanistan/Iran border soon tightens up, too? Aside from the officially recognised crossing points, the Iranian border, like all of Iraq’s 3,600km of boundaries with its neighbours, has many illegal trails often used by smugglers. Methinks these crossings will now be watched by armed Predator drones. |
| Posted by:Puddle Pirate |
| #1 The 4th ID shoulda called in Spooky to give those guys a preview of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a minigun bullet stream. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-16 10:17:03 PM |