Posted on 11/30/2006 8:19:10 AM PST by jmc1969
U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.
This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official.
Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.
Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.
Two senior U.S. defense officials confirmed to ABC News earlier reports that fighters from the Mahdi army have traveled to Lebanon to receive training from Hezbollah.
While the New York Times reported that as many as 2,000 Iraqi militia fighters had received training in Lebanon, one of the senior officials said he believed the number was "closer to 1,000." Officials say a much smaller number of Hezbollah fighters have also traveled through Syria and into Iraq to provide training.
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There are differing opinions as to when and how the calls were placed. Innocent people died.
Being moral should not mean being suicidal. Losing to barbarism is immoral
On that we agree, and that was my point. War is about winning.
"The Iranians/Persians are the most cowardly warriors that "I have ever heard of.
Instead of fighting honorably, they hide behind terrorists, women, children, etc."
This is war. They know it and act like it, we don't. They use the most effective means available to them, regardless of what others think, we don't. That's why groups of pathetically armed madmen have the greatest military power in the world tied down without sight of victory.
INDEED!!!
And this time, immediately following the media blitz, I hope to see some serious "SHOCK & AWE"!!
Nancee
That's classic Rumsfeld. But without him, can we see it through? Does anyone left in our government grasp the situation?
Bah, bah, baaah, bomb, bomb Iran...
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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
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by David Horowitz
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Rich Lowry, Editor National Review
David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle
An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006
Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews
A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia. The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us, Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.
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So, all who've been killed by Iranian weapons to date were freebies?
I too believe that Al Q would have rid Iraq of Saddam if the U.S. had not. Interesting how those freaking "sheet heads" constantly change alliances. I'm SURE he was considered an infidel by AQ. He was their useful idiot in helping them and supplying them. They would have gladly beheaded him when they were finished with him. Are AQ Sunni or Shite?
Who gives a "shite?" They are all freaking nuts.
dunno, unfortunately. But wouldn't matter because, according to various influential nitwits, our strategies are determined and executed by powerful corporate interest and backroom power brokers. /haha
I trust the generals and the armed forces who, for all intents and purposes, are the only ones standing against radicalized Islamism in the streets.
I am so dumbfounded by our reactions (or lack of) to this war. This is just like all the history books describe the fall of all great historical empires. The little barbarians poke and poke and poke at the big bully, who shows great restraint, until he is finally no longer able to cope and tumbles over. We can still stop this travesty from occurring, but I doubt we have the stomach to do what needs to be done and thus we are going to end up on the trash heap of history. President Bush needs to act NOW.
Wow! That's a shocker! Wait a minute! Haven't we all been saying this for the past two years????? Doh!
Al Qaeda are mainly Sunni, just like the Baathists.
And Al AQaeda and Saddam were not enemies. As far back as 1998, bin Laden and al Zawihiri were saying that U.S. attacks on Iraq were part of the reason they declared jihad on us. Also, see Khobar Towers attack. Khobar housed the pilots doing the bombing raids over Iraq. Don't believe the lefty/MSM myth that Saddam and bin Laden hated each other.
Read the Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (no neo-con is he0, you'l get all the history about al Qaeda you need.
Wait! Aren't we supposed to be talking to that Ringo Starr lookalike? /s
They already did.
Just click on the pic in my post above!
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