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Iranian Mortar Rounds Found in Iraq? | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Proves nothing (4.00 / 5)

Back when Reagan aided the Mujahaddin in Afghanistan (yes, those Islamist extremists) we gave them guns, bombs and other armaments and set up training camps to make sure they used them effectively. But we didn't give them American weapons, no siree, Bob! The CIA scoured the various black markets for Chinese and other weapons so that we would have deniability - even though what we were doing was no secret to the Soviets (for further deniability we did all this through the near-autonomous Pakistani intelligence service). Two points: if the weapons were Iranian it doesn't mean they were sourced from the Iranian government as anyone could buy them pretty much anywhere, and if the Iranian government really did want to supply arms to Iraquis they sure as hell wouldn't give them Iranian arms as they can buy from black markets the same way as we did.

Steve coll's Ghost Wars is a fascinating history of our involvement in Russia's blunder in Afghanistan. Iraq could well bring down the US the same way Afghanistan did the Soviet Union.

by wfeather on Mon Feb 12th, 2007 at 09:45:23 AM EST

Re: Proves nothing (4.00 / 2)

Except for one thing. In the past, when they wanted to claim Iran was supplying weapons to the Shi'a militias, they specifically made mention of "Farsi markings" on them as proof of their Iranian origin. See this story from 2004:

The Minister of the Interior of the Iraqi Interim Government, Falah al-Naqib, confirmed during a news conference on August 13 that Iranian arms had been confiscated from a cache of weapons captured in an-Najaf. The minister said that small arms had fallen into the hands of Iraqi National Guard troops during an operation in the vicinity of the Imam Ali Mosque, where elements of the Mahdi Army, under the command of Moqtada al-Sadr, had taken refuge. The arms included AK-47 automatic weapons and rocket launchers. The Interior Ministry said that it would release a videotape of the arms, which showed the Iranian weapons. The video was released, as promised, on August 15 -- and showed arms in boxes with Farsi markings on them.... "There were Farsi language marks on the boxes containing the arms and heavy machine guns laid out on the floor with serial numbers on the sides of the guns," a reporter on-the-scene told This Is Rumor Control.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Mon Feb 12th, 2007 at 10:00:53 AM EST
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Iranian Mortar Rounds Found in Iraq? | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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