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Iraq
In Iraq, the Iranians aiding not just Shia groups but Sunni terrorists as well
2008-03-19
BAGHDAD, April 11 -- The chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq asserted Wednesday that Iranian-made arms, manufactured as recently as last year, have reached Sunni insurgents here, which if true would mark a new development in the four-year-old conflict.

Citing testimony from detainees in U.S. custody, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said Iranian intelligence operatives were backing the Sunni militants inside Iraq while at the same time training Shiite extremists in Iran.

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said that "Iranian intelligence services have provided to some Sunni insurgent groups some support."

"We have, in fact, found some cases recently where Iranian intelligence services have provided to some Sunni insurgent groups some support," Caldwell told reporters, adding that he was aware of only Shiite extremists being trained inside Iran. Caldwell cited a collection of munitions on a nearby table that he said were made in Iran and found two days ago in a majority-Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad
Posted by:Icerigger

#7  I don't know if you caught it, Joe, but the Russians apparently paid ransom to get their ship back off of Somalia. That's not exactly the sort of image the Russians have been wanting to project lately.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-03-19 23:24  

#6  HMMMMMM, unless I'm reading tings wrong, ala KOSOVO the RUSSIANS are now MORE WORRIED THAN BEFORE about A DE FACTO LARGE, EXPANSION-MINDED, MIL-AND NUKES-CAPABLE/PROFICIENT MUSLIM OR ISLAMIST STATE/COOPER OF STATES MANIFESTING ON PORTIONS OF FORMER SOVIET-RUSS COLD WAR TERRITORY.
IOW, RUSS > RADICAL ISLAM SEEMINGLY LOSING IN IRAQ-AFGHANI AZG AMER, BUT SEEMINGLY WINNING AGZ RUSSIA [China?].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-03-19 22:46  

#5  Excuse me, but didn't WAPO say this was a gaffe when McCain said the same thing? (See McCain Gaffe in Jordan in today's WOT Background or WAPO.) How is it a gaffe when McCain says so when the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq says so too? And wasn't McCain in Iraq just yesterday? Possibly getting his information directly from the U.S. military guys on the scene? I'm not defending McCain, I'm just feeling a little cognitive dissonance here.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2008-03-19 15:03  

#4  A few dozen nukes in the right place would put an end to that. And it REALLY needs to end. Dinnerjacket needs to be strung up from a lamp post with piano wire. The mullocracy needs to be so severely stomped they'll have to import prayer leaders from Canada. Stomp 'em so hard the highest level of technology left will be a wheelbarrow or a two-wheel cart. Then leave 'em that way for a decade or three.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-03-19 13:30  

#3  Apparently large sections of the population already have figured this out.

However, unfortunately, the neither the Sunni nor Shia elected officials are willing to come out loudly and in public about this situation (maybe fear of assasination, maybe fear of losing bribes). The lack of Iraqi outrage is what allows the MSM to ignore this situation.
Posted by: mhw   2008-03-19 13:17  

#2  Well, other than the obvious, captured from Shias by Sunnis, it makes sense that Iran plays the entire field. We don't hear much about their meddling in Afghanistan, but it is as bad or worse.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2008-03-19 12:13  

#1  They needed their ass kicking years ago!!!
Posted by: Paul   2008-03-19 10:55  

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