Posted on 09/13/2007 3:36:39 AM PDT by maquiladora
Bergner: Rocket Associated With Iran By DAVID RISING – 16 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — A fatal attack launched two days ago against the sprawling headquarters base of the American military in Iraq was carried out with a 240 mm rocket — a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran, a U.S. general said Thursday.
One person was killed and 11 were wounded during the "indirect fire" attack Tuesday against Camp Victory, which includes the headquarters of Multinational Forces-Iraq.
It represents a major confrontation between the U.S. and armed Shiite groups the Americans insist are supported by Iran.
Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said the rocket was launched from a populated area in the Rasheed district of west Baghdad, which he said was infiltrated by the Mahdi Army militia of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Bergner said Shiite groups "have received" such weapons "from Iranian sources in the past" and "used them against coalition forces." A 240 mm rocket was fired against a U.S. base south of the capital in mid-August.
"The Iranian... rocket is the only 240-milimeter rocket found or fired in Iraq to date, and Jaish al-Mahdi is the only group known to fire that rocket," Bergner said, referring to the Mahdi Army by its Arabic name.
Bergner insisted the U.S. was certain that such rockets were of Iranian origin based on their color and markings on fragments. He said Shiite extremist leaders under U.S. detention had acknowledged that Iranian Quds Force operatives were providing 240 mm rockets to Shiite militias.
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We need to obliterate a key IRG base in Iran, just wipe it off the map with everyone associated with it, and then tell Ahmawhackjob that either he stops ALL cross-border supplies of weapons, funding, terrorists, and trainers or else there will be an escalating destruction of every military and economic structure in Iran.
Why aren’t we blowing things up in Iran as retaliation?
Of Iran.
Already.
LET'S ROLL.
Could it not be said that we already are at war with Iran on the sands of Iraq?
We most certainly are.
That's why it's time to take it across the border.
And if Imawhackjob wants to escalate things then Let’s Roll.
P.S. I think we can do this without ground troops.
Well it sure has sounded like we are at war with Iran for sometime now, and it sure does explain why these whining liberals want the troops home ASAP. They have a history of making deals with the moooolahs of Iran.
5.56mm
Vietnam and sanctuaries all over again
...as Michael Savage said yesterday:
“Who are you asking permission from Rueters? Are we that neutered that we have to ask for permission to strike back?”
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