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2007-08-06 Afghanistan

Iran gives Taliban hi-tech weapons to fight British

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Posted by Steve White 2007-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 It strikes me that the Iranians-in-charge are feeling extremely vulnerable to internal unrest. As such, they are doing all the can to get the West to attack them. Not a crushing, all-out war on them, since they (rightly) perceive Western politics won't permit it, but a Clinton-style attack that will allow them to call Iranians to unite to resist the Great Satan. The Iranians can't be 'seen' as starting a war, but smuggled arms is just routine business, not an act of war to them. An overt attack will just play into the Mullah's hands; a covert attack that is obvious, or gets caught, does the same. We need a plan with plausible deniability that can take out key players - heart attacks, cancer, AIDS, 'work accidents' etc. Not Halliburton earthquakes or tsunamis, but maybe a 'guided meteor'?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-06 07:08|| 2007-08-06 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 We need to <hint>refine</hint> the target list for sabotage.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-08-06 07:28|| 2007-08-06 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, we've been talking about this for almost a year.
Everyone knows they are doing it. Next step? Besides bend over and grab our ankles?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-06 08:04|| 2007-08-06 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe we should give them more hostages?

Posted by The Royal Navy">The Royal Navy 2007-08-06 08:59|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-08-06 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Afghan intelligence sources believe that many deals between the Taliban and the Iranians are conducted through a drug smuggler in southern Afghanistan who acts as a middle man. He is from the minority Baluch tribe; as well as smuggling heroin through Iran to Europe, he is also believed to have bought weapons off the Iranian government and sold them on to the Taliban.

Target him. You get a twofer; drug and weapons traffic are slowed for awhile.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-08-06 09:45|| 2007-08-06 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 work accidents involving owner(s) and managers at an Iranian IED manufacturing plant would be ideal..

like bad breaks
explosive sewer gas
too much flour dust in the kitchen
to high an arsenic level in the drinking water
and just the stuff that frustrates a person like...
sand or dust in the motor oil
assembly lines with failures that cause IEDs to drop off or get hit with a huge static charge

and the number one diss.
Owners and managers discovered owning Dogs as pets.

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-06 12:33|| 2007-08-06 12:33|| Front Page Top

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