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| Iraq |
| Bomb shipments caught at Iran-Iraq border. |
| 2006-03-06 |
| U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border. They are a very nasty piece of business, capable of penetrating U.S. troops' strongest armor. What the United States says links them to Iran are tell-tale manufacturing signatures — certain types of machine-shop welds and material indicating they are built by the same bomb factory. "The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production," says explosives expert Kevin Barry. "So it's the same make and model." U.S. officials say roadside bomb attacks against American forces in Iraq have become much more deadly as more and more of the Iran-designed and Iran-produced bombs have been smuggled in from the country since last October. "I think the evidence is strong that the Iranian government is making these IEDs, and the Iranian government is sending them across the border and they are killing U.S. troops once they get there," says Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief and an ABC News consultant. "I think it's very hard to escape the conclusion that, in all probability, the Iranian government is knowingly killing U.S. troops." U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is using the bombs as a way to drive up U.S. casualties in Iraq but without provoking a direct confrontation. John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Februrary 2, saying, "Tehran's intention to inflict pain on the United States and Iraq has been constrained by its caution to avoid giving Washington an excuse to attack it." The U.S. Army has embarked on a crash effort to find ways to stop the bombs, according to an unclassified report issued last month. The devices are easily hidden and detonated by motion detectors — like those used in garden security lights — that cannot be jammed. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #14 Capturing them. Send them back and deploy them. 2 can play that game. make sure it's good and painful to the leadership when they go off. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-03-06 23:47 |
| #13 :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-06 22:11 |
| #12 Agreeing, Frank, not correcting. Can't be said too loud or too often. Casus belli. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-03-06 22:04 |
| #11 lol - hopefully the NEW CIA™ keeps that in mind |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-06 21:47 |
| #10 Precise location of the Chinese Embassy in Tehran found on: Page 12 of the ATO (___) Page 33 of the ATO (___) Page 69 of the ATO (___) Page 1 of the ATO (XX) *Air Tasking Order |
| Posted by: Visitor 2006-03-06 21:41 |
| #9 correct - my mispelling - too eager to spellcheck |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-06 21:30 |
| #8 Casus belli. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-03-06 21:22 |
| #7 We should make it very, very, clear to Iran and the U.N. that we consider this an outright act of war. We don't need to act on it immediately... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-03-06 21:07 |
| #6 This goes back to the Iran Goverment, which it will, war should be declared. Americans have died because of them it is time to return the favor. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-03-06 21:04 |
| #5 It won't mean anything to the MSM - remember, the burden is solely on Dubya and the USA to prove that Iran, NorKor, Syria, etal. are doing what these nations themselves proclaim what they are doing, and that their State-specific actions or decisions = direct threat to the USA-West, WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NOTHING AMERICA DOES IS VALID UNLESS THE LEFT AND ONLY THE LEFT SAYS ITS VALID. MURTHA-GATE > can be ascribed or summed up as the Left wanting Dubya-GOP to continue waging war which the Left will publicly proclaim is unjust and immoral. CLINTONISM > America unilater "volunteering" to give up its national sovereignty, freedoms and endowments for OWG = America being unilater but peacefully FORCED to do same for OWG and "justified" Anti-American American Socialism-NPE = America is "justifiably" destroyed by per anti-US armed conflict. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-03-06 21:03 |
| #4 Nuke Iran |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2006-03-06 19:59 |
| #3 f*** Iran. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-03-06 19:42 |
| #2 Excellent. Now prove the link to Iran's "government" and we're on. Hopefully it will inspire sanction on the nuke issue instead of the "let 'em do low-level enrichment. We should let 'em do that much" idiocies. |
| Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-03-06 19:37 |
| #1 causus belli for war |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-06 19:06 |