Weapons Not From Iran Afterall
QuestionGirl May 14th, 2008 - 12:05 amIn a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad:
“A plan to show some alleged Iranian’supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.”The US, which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its “evidence” of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US “evidence” to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted “training, financing and arming” militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.
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May 14th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
We, the US military-industrial complex have been pumping weapons into the Middle East for decades to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars so how we could be worried about what Iran is or isn’t doing is ridiculous. What about the billions in weapons we have suplied the Iraqis with that have mysteriously disappeared and we have no clue where they are or who possesses them. There are plenty of weapons to go around, nobody has any need for Iranian weapons. Pure propoganda going on here.