Posted on 04/27/2007 7:43:51 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
US forces on Friday detained four members of a gang suspected of smuggling armour-piercing bombs from Iran to Iraq and sending back militants for "terrorist training", the military said. A statement from US command in Iraq said the suspects were picked up in an early morning raid on the east Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, a known stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
"The individuals targeted during the raid are suspected members of a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq," it said.
The EFP is a form of roadside bomb in which the detonation of an explosive charge inside a steel tube causes a copper disk to deform into a fist-sized chunk of supersonic molten metal that can scythe through armoured vehicles.
American commanders say the design is exclusively Iranian and in January alleged that at least 170 US troops had been killed by EFPs since May 2004.
The statement also said that the gang had sent "militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training."
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I’ll let you slide this time. Hang in there.
The proper analysis of what you propose is exceedingly complex, counterintuitive, expensive, logistically a monumental undertaking, calls for war fighting system not available in sufficient numbers, and historically never been accomplished going back to the era of King Xersis, Alexander The great and even up to the Ottoman Empire and WW I. And that would be if we hadn’t already exhausted our forces and supply capabilities on the Iraq misadventure and the loss of the availabilities of reserve and national guard aviation resources. I’d be happy to explain the extreme difficulties of the Iran situation and the our current inabilities to undertake such an operation successfully in our present strategic, tactical and logistical posture but it would require a large chapter, if not a volume, to do so.
Hey middie,Great history obfuscation. Iran lasts 6 days, no exhausted troops or depleated stores needed. Naval Air, Present and accounted for sir.We might lose a ship but Iran ceases to exist as a military power. Israel will of course be allowed to destoy Nazi-Hizbollah in place.
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