Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

[drlogic]

Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...nt_iran_c.html

Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban
June 06, 2007 6:00 PM

Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week of blaming Iran, saying the U.S. did not have evidence "of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the Taliban."

But an analysis by a senior coalition official, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, concludes there is clear evidence of Iran's involvement.

"This is part of a considered policy," says the analysis, "rather than the result of low-level corruption and weapons smuggling."

Iran and the Taliban had been fierce enemies when the Taliban was in power in Afghanistan, and their apparent collaboration came as a surprise to some in the intelligence community.

"I think their goal is to make it very clear that Iran has the capability to make life worse for the United States on a variety of fronts," said Seth Jones of the Rand Institute, "even if they have to do some business with a group that has historically been their enemy."

The coalition analysis says munitions recovered in two Iranian convoys, on April 11 and May 3, had "clear indications that they originated in Iran. Some were identical to Iranian supplied goods previously discovered in Iraq."

The April convoy was tracked from Iran into Helmand province and led a fierce firefight that destroyed one vehicle, according to the official analysis. A second vehicle was reportedly found to contain small arms ammunition, mortar rounds and more than 650 pounds of C4 demolition charges.

A second convoy of two vehicles was spotted on May 3 and led to the capture of five occupants and the seizure of RPG-7mm rockets and more than 1,000 pounds of C4, the analysis says.

Also among the munitions are components for the lethal EFPs, or explosive formed projectiles, the roadside bombs that U.S. officials say Iran has provided to Iraqi insurgents with deadly results.

"These clearly have the hallmarks of the Iranian Revolution Guards' Quds force," said Jones.

The coalition diplomatic message says the demolition charges "contained the same fake U.S. markings found on explosives recovered from insurgents operating in the Baghdad area."

"We believe these intercepted munitions are part of a much bigger flow of support from Iran to the Taliban," the message says.

The Taliban receives larger supplies of weapons through profits from opium dealing, officials say, but the Iranian presence could be significant.

"It means the insurgency in Afghanistan is likely to be prolonged," said Jones. "It would be a much more potent force."

[endymion]

News flash: American war hawks figure out which country to invade -- five years too late.

[coach]

Originally Posted by techjunkie

News flash: American war hawks figure out which country to invade -- five years too late.

LMAO!!! I was just about to post similar, before I paged down and saw your post. So is this the third or fourth anti-Bush story that Dr Logic has posted recently?

[drlogic]

5 years,,,,talk about having a short memory. This problem is much older than 5 yrs. should we go back to the 93’ WTC bombing? Gulf war 1 in 1991, or the American hostages taken by Iran.



HAHAHAHAHA Now that’s funny!



But don’t worry about it, once we get a lib in office, they’ll leave us alone for while we frolic in togas and feed each other grapes. If they don’t leave us alone, we’ll just tell them that we really, really, really feel their pain take all responsibility for all that ails them. Then if they still come after us, we’ll show them we mean business by ignoring their attacks….if still nothing, we’ll just all convert to Islam,,,,say goodbye to our techno and MDMA and say hello to sambusas and our sexy women in light blue ninja-nun get-ups.


Alah akbar

FYI

We have US Troops and bases in Afghanistan. We have US Troops and bases in Iraq. Call me crazy but we now have US Troops and Bases surrounding Iran considering Iraq and Afghanistan surrounds Iran.. I'm not a military strategist but we are now surrounding Iran which is a key member of the axis of evil list. Again, we are now surrounding one of the key countries which wants us annihilated. Smart move IMO.

[yume]

If Iran had military bases in Mexico and Canada, telling us to shut down our nuclear power plants or else, we'd be smuggling C4 into those countries to blow them up too.

We need to mind our own damn business. The world isn't going to sit on it's ass while we try and take it over. Did Bush really think Russia would do nothing as we tried to put up missile bases right next to it? Someone needs to be smacked. Or impeached. Or C4 will be the least of our worries.

The USA is getting more hypocritical by the second. Stack this up right next to how ridiculous our legal system is. Oh, wait, add presidential elections, the war on insert catch phrase here, health care system, racial-sexual-wealth discrimination, etc.

Sure, we have it better than a lot of folks. But shouldn't we be spending all our time and money on fixing our own problems, rather than starting new ones? ???

[JMT]

Originally Posted by DrLogic

This problem is much older than 5 yrs.

Sirhan Sirhan in 1968?

[drlogic]

Originally Posted by Yume

If Iran had military bases in Mexico and Canada, telling us to shut down our nuclear power plants or else, we'd be smuggling C4 into those countries to blow them up too.

We need to mind our own damn business. The world isn't going to sit on it's ass while we try and take it over. Did Bush really think Russia would do nothing as we tried to put up missile bases right next to it? Someone needs to be smacked. Or impeached. Or C4 will be the least of our worries.

The USA is getting more hypocritical by the second. Stack this up right next to how ridiculous our legal system is. Oh, wait, add presidential elections, the war on insert catch phrase here, health care system, racial-sexual-wealth discrimination, etc.

Sure, we have it better than a lot of folks. But shouldn't we be spending all our time and money on fixing our own problems, rather than starting new ones? ???

God you're dumb! And I say that with ease!!!!! The Iranians have the right to peaceful nuclear plants to produce energy? Of course they do. EVERYONE has the right to that. There are many other Countries which do so at the moment and you don't see us trying to stop them or surrounding them. I wonder why? CAUSE THEY HAVE PROVEN THAT THEY WOULD NOT ABUSE THEIR NUCLEAR POWER AND FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES OF BOTH THE IAEA and THE UN. Since the 1960s steps have been taken to limit both the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries and the environmental effects of nuclear testing. The Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) restricted all nuclear testing to underground nuclear testing, to prevent contamination from nuclear fallout, while the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) attempted to place restrictions on the types of activities which signatories could participate in, with the goal of allowing the transference of non-military nuclear technology to member countries without fear of proliferation. In 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was established under the mandate of the United Nations in order to encourage the development of the peaceful applications of nuclear technology, provide international safeguards against its misuse, and facilitate the application of safety measures in its use. In 1996, many nations signed and ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty which prohibits all testing of nuclear weapons, which would impose a significant hindrance to their development by any complying country.

Iran along with others have defied the UN, the IAEA and the World. The difference between Iran and the rest is that Iran is being straight up blunt with their defiance. They have clearly stated that Israel must be wiped off the map (I wonder what kind of weapon can do such a thing) and the destruction of the US is near.


[quote author=Yume link=board=6;threadid=40555;start=0#msg452686 date=1181264113]
If Iran had military bases in Mexico and Canada, telling us to shut down our nuclear power plants or else, we'd be smuggling C4 into those countries to blow them up too.
[/quote]


If were were threatening to blow certain counties off the map then hell yes someone should surround us and stop us but we are not....Iran is!!!!!!!



[quote author=Yume link=board=6;threadid=40555;start=0#msg452686 date=1181264113]We need to mind our own damn business.[/quote]


We did that once during WWI and the World suffered. At the end, Counties begged us to get involved again. We did and we prevailed.

Read a book bro!!!!!!

[coach]

Originally Posted by DrLogic

[quote author=Yume link=board=6;threadid=40555;start=0#msg452686 date=1181264113]We need to mind our own damn business.

We did that once during WWI and the World suffered. At the end, Counties begged us to get involved again. We did and we prevailed.
[/quote]Wait, a Republican who is NOT an isolationist??? One of Bush's big campaign slogans was "No Nation Building." Of course, he reneged on that big time.

Also, don't forget the same thing happened in WW2.

[yume]

I know my friend, I was generalizing to be brief. Iran tells us it's power plants are for power, and we tell the world there are WMD's in Iraq. Everyone lies. We are not moraly superior. May I remind you that we are the only country to actually wipe out men, women, children with an atomic weapon? Not once, but twice?

For your own knowledge, the US doesn't follow UN regulations either, I just have a problem with our double standards. I'm too lazy to write a book about it on this forum, so look it up yourself.

[endymion]

Originally Posted by Yume

For your own knowledge, the US doesn't follow UN regulations either, I just have a problem with our double standards. I'm too lazy to write a book about it on this forum, so look it up yourself.

I did. (Google rocks BTW.)

US - Israeli UN Resolution Hypocrisy

Two nations stand out above all others as notorious serial abusers of UN resolutions - the US and Israel. Over the last half century, the US has used its Security Council veto many dozens of times to prevent any resolutions from passing condemning Israel for its abusive or hostile actions or that were inimical to Israeli interests. It's also voted against dozens of others overwhelmingly supported by the rest of the world in the UN General Assembly. By its actions and with 6% of the world's population, the US has thus arrogantly ignored the will of nearly all the other 94% to support its client state even when Israel had committed war crimes or crimes against humanity the rest of the world demanded it be held to account for. In the words of one UK observer using a baseball analogy: "Only the USA could have a World Series and not invite the rest of the world."

The Israeli record on UN resolutions over that same period is far worse. With full US support for its actions, it's flagrantly and with little or no pretense routinely ignored over five dozen UN Resolutions condemning or censuring it for its actions against the Palestinians or other Arab people, deploring it for committing them, or demanding, calling on or urging the Jewish state to end them. Israel never did or intends to up to the present, including the mass slaughter and destruction it's now inflicting on the people of Lebanon and the Palestinians in their Territories that Israel illegally occupies and attacks whenever it wishes. It does so with impunity using any contrived pretext it can get away with to deny the Palestinians any chance ever for a viable sovereign independent state and to avoid a political solution with them it won't ever tolerate.