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EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia
ABC News ^ | November 30 2006 | JONATHAN KARL AND MARTIN CLANCY

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bombirannow; iran; iraq; taketheglovesoff
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To: P-Marlowe
I was thinking more along the lines of several Neutron-Bombs and call it "The US Contribution to Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament." Oh that's right! We don't have any because of Jimmie Kart-Duh.
181 posted on 11/30/2006 4:00:46 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: jmc1969
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do I really have to say it???
182 posted on 11/30/2006 5:16:13 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: quantfive
Quantfive,

your three point plan makes me understand that
both you and I are on the same page. It does
not have to start BIG in so far as quantity,
but rather BIG in so far as they realize that
we can truly snatch their hearts out....JJ61
183 posted on 11/30/2006 5:38:30 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: ilgipper

move troops out of the cities and to the borders. Let the Iraqi troops/police deal with the cities, with our guys on stand by to come in to take care of situations.



That's what I had in mind. The current situation with Iran and Syria is easily comparable to what happened in Vietnam and one of the reasons we lost there. Move coalition forces to Iraq's borders, shoot whatever does not have permission to cross, and let the Iraqis lay the smack down on the cities with some coalition reinforcement.

Then again, we can't protect our own borders so not being able to protect Iraq's does not surprise me.


184 posted on 11/30/2006 6:32:09 PM PST by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: All

What will we do?

Simply take yourself back to the placards that the Iranians shoved in our faces every night while holding hundreds of hostages

..."You can't do anything to us"


185 posted on 11/30/2006 6:37:26 PM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: finnman69

Sadr should have been taken out a long time ago. He's too idolized and important now to do so. If you think Iraq is bloody now you haven't seen anything.


186 posted on 11/30/2006 6:41:07 PM PST by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: All
For the last three plus years, I have realized that
the Kurdish militia was the most potent force in
the land. That paragon of power cannot be ignored.

Amplify it much to Turkey's chagrin for not letting
us operate from their northern land back in '03.

The Northern Kurdish are an abused and defensive
people who could flex some muscle and the surround-
ing folks would have much to fear should they be
unleashed. Let the people of the area realize that
they have much to be feared from within if they do
not cool off their heels. Those Kurds are the type
who would love to run Baath types through.

If Al Sadre types get too ferocious, they'd
eat them too....JJ61
187 posted on 11/30/2006 6:56:48 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: quantfive

Ping for above


188 posted on 11/30/2006 7:06:30 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: jmc1969

Like we didn't know this... Obvious enough for the "captain" to come to the rescue.


189 posted on 11/30/2006 8:14:30 PM PST by madison10 (If my people, who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray...I will heal their land.)
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To: justa-hairyape

"So we are being governed by a bunch of Chamberlains. Been there, done that. That script leads to millions of deaths."

That is PRECISELY where we are at. Bullseye.


190 posted on 11/30/2006 8:25:56 PM PST by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
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To: jmc1969

Bomb the Holy Shiite out of them!!


191 posted on 11/30/2006 9:14:46 PM PST by JohnRand
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US troops should be moved to interdict the Syrian and Iranian borders and leave the bloody center area now to the Iraqi security forces (but be available by offensives against insurgents).

Take the US troops out of the way of the IEDs and eliminate the foreign support and flow of instigators from outside.
192 posted on 12/01/2006 5:04:29 AM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: jmc1969

They're eager to wipe entire countries off the map in support of the Sunnis in Palestine, but they supply terrorists with weapons to obliterate Sunnis in Iraq.


193 posted on 12/01/2006 6:03:37 AM PST by Saveaplant_Eatavegan
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To: shahab312

That really is the answer, we need to do a Reagan. Identify the sanest and most likely to succeed resistance group, support them and their popogandaa, support them with arms, and let them go at it with covert support.

But the Liberals in the gov't would leak so bad nothing could be done covertly.


195 posted on 12/01/2006 10:09:43 AM PST by Idaho Whacko
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To: JerseyJohn61

Yes, I agree. I believe it is time to turn them lose.


196 posted on 12/01/2006 10:47:43 AM PST by LongViewSC
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To: Muzzle_em

--Anyone care to theorize what would be happening in Iraq and/or U.S. right now if the U.S. had never gone into Iraq and Saddam was still in power?--

Zarqawi, Uday, and Qusay would still be at 98.6 degrees body temperature. Chemical Ali would be free to play golf with OJ.

Qadhafi would be holding on to his nukes.

The inspectors would have produced a whitewash report on WMD, and the UN would be applauded by the world.

The oil-for-food scam would be buried as deeply as the Venona cables. Kofing Anus would have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sanctions would have ended, allowing Saddam to fund whatever palaces & suicide bombers he wished.

The Enemedia would have blamed Bush for the high oil prices and worldwide recession, provoking a RATS election landslide.

President Jean-Francois Kerree and First Hag Teresa Heinz would be wining and dining leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad at the White House, together with Small Peanut Carter, Woody-for-brains Harrelson & the fat b@$t@rd who made that oscar-winning "9-11 documentary".

Justices Alcee Hastings and Lynne Stewart would be on the Supreme Court instead of Roberts & Alito.

Ambassador Monica Lewinsky would be in Paris, servicing Jacques Chiraq.


197 posted on 12/01/2006 12:00:17 PM PST by rfp1234 (I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
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To: jmc1969

Imagine that, but the left says Iran is a peaceful nation. Make 'em glow!


198 posted on 12/01/2006 1:03:16 PM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: rfp1234

hilarious, and sadly, probably true.


199 posted on 12/01/2006 1:48:51 PM PST by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: ScaniaBoy
>>>No, no, no. You've got to talk to them. /major sarcasm <<<

Well, don't be to hasty. We haven't seen the wonderful Baker/Hamilton report yet. It might say "talk to them...after Bush has knocked them flat on their azz"!

But, then again....probably not.

200 posted on 12/01/2006 5:03:38 PM PST by HardStarboard (Give Pelosi and Reid Enough Rope to Hang Themselves.)
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