War by proxy works, so long as policy-makers refuse to target the puppet-master. Of course this is understandable when one realizes that such targeting will engender the escalation of warfare to a much more ferocious level, and one that would cost much in terms of American lives and money. Still, at a certain point there must be either full-measures or no-measures. Half-measures accomplish little to nothing at extravagent cost.
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/hizballah.html
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004829.html
August 23, 2005
Iran 'Supplies Infra-Red Bombs' That Kill British Troops In Iraq
Sunday Telegraph - August 21, 2005:
British soldiers in Iraq are being killed by advanced "infra-red" bombs supplied by Iran that defeat jamming equipment, according to military intelligence officials.
The "passive infra-red" devices, whose use in Iraq is revealed for the first time by The Sunday Telegraph, are detonated when the beam is broken, as when an intruder triggers a burglar alarm. They were used by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group against Israel in Lebanon from 1995.
A radio signal is used to arm the bomb as a target vehicle approaches. The next object to break the infra-red beam - the target vehicle - detonates the device.
Coalition officials see the disturbing development as a key part of an aggressive new campaign by Teheran to drive coalition forces out of Iraq so that an Islamic theocracy can be established.
Posted by aaron at August 23, 2005 11:47 AM
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