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Bomb cache found in Iraq believed to be from Iranian Revolutionary Guard: official
AFP via Iran Focus ^ | 2005 Aug 9

Posted on 08/10/2005 7:06:56 AM PDT by Wiz

WASHINGTON - US intelligence believes that a cache of manufactured bombs seized in Iraq about two weeks ago was smuggled into the country from Iran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an intelligence official said Tuesday.

"We believe they came from Iran's Revolutionary Guards," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The find is significant not only because of the Iranian connection but also because it indicates manufactured bombs are now being introduced in a conflict that has seen the use of mainly improvised explosive devices.

(Excerpt) Read more at iranfocus.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cache; iran; iraq; islamist; terrorism; terrorist
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To: Miles the Slasher

I think there'a a practical solution, There's only so many roads into Iraq from Iran. If I were a General, I'd take about 10,000 troops from stable areas in Iraq; reinforce those areas with more Iraqi units, then send the US trooops to patrol the borders, Syria too.


61 posted on 08/10/2005 8:37:55 AM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: in hoc signo vinces

I agree with you about this: if it is indeed Iranian weaponry being used against us, then open war is preferable to this shadowy shot in the dark business. The world won't help us, except perhaps for the stalwart few, and even they are in a rough position. It's a law of history that weaker countries band together against the stronger, and that's what's happening to us now (witness the alliance of Old Europe with the Islamofascists, Russia with Syria, etc.).

The problem is that our enemies need not defeat us on the battlefield. We Americans are an impatient lot, sometimes a virtue and sometimes a vice. In war it is a vice. No one wants to see the flower of their nation return in flag-drapped coffins, but it is the cruel reality of what war is. If the American people are this squeamish over 1800 US deaths in Iraq, I can't imagine how they would react to significantly more. It used to be that losing 1800 in a single battle was considered light casualties, let alone a war (obviously, the wounded in action figure raises the casuality level significantly, but it is still shockingly low for a 2 year operation).

Our enemies know how to exploit our strengths, and turn them into weaknesses. Freedom of speech has become the armor of the fifth column. Our faith in the decency of humanity is shaken by the acts of barbarism perpetrated on both soldier and civilian. I firmly believe that every civilization crumbles as a result of its core beliefs--Nazi Germany through war, the Soviet Union through economics, the USA through our liberties. It won't happen in the immediate future, but the our greatest achievement, the Bill of Rights, will be the instrument of our downfall.


62 posted on 08/10/2005 8:43:20 AM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Performing at a level just a hair above incompetence.)
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To: Cyclopean Squid


But your post in which you express a belief shared by many of us within this forum is also an example of how free speech is also one of the U.S.'s greatest strengths thus we should exploit that strength...by bringing common sense and rational thought to the fifth column...seriously, it would seem to me that since there is debate, now, that the press is agenda driven...our side is winning...the fact that Bush won the election, and that he has not been deterred from appointing Bolton despite the wishes of Pelosi, Kerry, and the rest of their ilk...makes me optimistic...

There comes a point where the silent majority, can no longer bear the utter stupidity and wrong minded sensationalism voiced my the minority...we're taking back this country...and the looney lefties know this, which is why their screed has been at a fever pitch in the last year or so.

Remember, the "Bill of Rights" is what makes us the "good guys" and its up to us to remind the world of this...and IMHO gives us the moral authority to take down to the Tyrants of the world, which have already (defacto) declared war on us.

Iran...may have heavy weapons, but it is still a poorly led rabble of thugs with guns...and yes they can cause casualities via guerilla warfare, but they cannot stand the test of time...if we are willing to have the "will" to fight and stay...it's how you beat insurgents...patience and force of arms.

Have faith brother.


63 posted on 08/10/2005 8:53:02 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: Wiz

Rather than whine about it (Rummy), I want to see a smoking crater where Tehran used to be.


64 posted on 08/10/2005 9:00:08 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (If you think that's tough, try losing a testicle in a knife fight with your mother!)
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To: in hoc signo vinces
I go through stages...sometimes I am an incorrigible optomist in the nature of Man...others a misanthropic cynic. You must have caught me in the latter stage. :)

I will keep the faith until I come across scenes like this:



Then I'll know that plankton levels are dangerously low.
65 posted on 08/10/2005 9:10:33 AM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Performing at a level just a hair above incompetence.)
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To: Cyclopean Squid


Hey...we're all cynics about one thing or another or any given day, but as long as that's tempered by being optimitic most days of the year...that's purely rational.

HAHAHAHHAA...you just gotta love a movie starring Charleton Heston.


66 posted on 08/10/2005 9:16:16 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: All
On another recent thread, I stated the road to victory in Iraq was through the streets of Tehran and Damascus. It wasn't the first time I had made that comment, which was an excellent analysis.

I was dismissed as a "moonbat" by a triumverate of three who "are there" so they are the only ones who know what they are talking about. They know who they are so, I won't mention any names.

I am handicapped by the reality I am not on the ground in Iraq. I am limited by the information I have access to, although FR is an excellent source. I can take some comfort that even at my location and limited access to information, I was on the mark while "those on the ground" couldn't find their own ass with both hands and a map.

So, to those of you to whom I refer, I can understand why decisions are being made not only above your pay grade but way above your pay grade. Perhaps you should step off your ego horses and stop playing James or Jane Bond and recognize you do not have a monopoly on analytical skills.

67 posted on 08/10/2005 9:21:42 AM PDT by olde north church (Sarcasm tags: Closed Captioning for the Intellectually Dim.)
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To: Wiz

Nuke Iran Now ~ Bump!


68 posted on 08/10/2005 9:32:18 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: blackie
Nuke Iran Now ~ Bump!

Now Now,, lol

Don't want to make the handwringers (Islamic plants) on this thread and forum think we like to shoot first and talk later. ;-)

69 posted on 08/10/2005 9:40:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: blackie

time to shock&awe the mullahs in Iran


70 posted on 08/10/2005 9:46:58 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Wiz

There is no way in hell we go to war with Iran.


71 posted on 08/10/2005 9:51:47 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Shoot now and talk later ~ Bump!

:):):)


72 posted on 08/10/2005 9:54:03 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: rwfromkansas
Hitting Iran would not be the cakewalk Iraq has been comparatively.

Gee, you think? Iran knows for a fact we aren't doing sh!t about them, because our hands are tied with Iraq and we don't have a draft.

74 posted on 08/10/2005 9:56:56 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: CindyDawg
Seriously, I don't want to expand a war but we can't let them keep killing our people in Iraq though.

We aren't able to stop Iran from doing whatever they want to destabilize Iraq.

75 posted on 08/10/2005 9:58:59 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Cinnamon

Roger that, Cinnamon ~ Bump!


77 posted on 08/10/2005 10:01:59 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I would say to bomb them into the stone age but blow up a couple of power plants and their nuke processing and they are there.


78 posted on 08/10/2005 10:04:04 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

If all troops left Iraq overnight, Iran would not be near as easy as Iraq. Much more dangerous.


79 posted on 08/10/2005 10:15:47 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Jim Noble
More soldiers?

Good point. The administration already has our soldiers too busy on the vital project of propping up Iranian-friendly governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, so they couldn't be spared for something like this.

80 posted on 08/10/2005 10:16:10 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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