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| Iranian weapons cache found in Tikrit |
| 2009-02-05 |
| Aswat al-Iraq: The police have found a large cache of Iranian-made weapons in western Tikrit city, according to a security source. "The cache was found in a village near al-Tharthar Lake in western Tikrit in light of intelligence reports," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The caches included anti-armor missiles, mortars, an amount of explosives, Katyusha launch pads, and remote control detonators," the source noted. "Police forces arrested three wanted men, who led the security apparatus to six other wanted men," the source added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Negotiate, and they won't do dat. |
| Posted by: Shineting Protector of the Platypi9343 2009-02-05 15:00 |
| #3 Took the snark right out of my mouth, Glenmore. And this is no small matter. The bizarre, delusional, obsessive belief that Shi'a and Sunni outfits and regimes don't/won't cooperate against us and other enemies is central to the fantasy world in which so many nominal adults exist, incl. in the intel and foreign policy communities. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-02-05 12:11 |
| #2 Weapons are fungible, Glenmore. Even assuming that Sunni militias don't cooperate with Iran (a position I don't take, FWIW), Sunni and Shia militias certainly do from time to time. I wouldn't be surprised if Iranian-made EFPs show up in Turkey any day now, used by terrorists in that perennial Turkish-Kurdish COIN clusterfuck. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-02-05 10:30 |
| #1 But but but ... Tikrit is a Sunni town. The Sunni couldn't possible cooperate with Iran. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-02-05 07:37 |