http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
#
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48361
“U.S. Generals: ‘Jury Still Out’ on Flow of Weapons From Iran”
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
NEWS RELEASE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2007 – Though U.S. officials now believe Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago, the jury is still out on the extent to which Tehran is influencing the battlefield in Iraq, two senior officers said at a Pentagon news conference today.
The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran has caused “no course correction” on the Joint Staff, Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, the Joint Staff’s director of strategic plans and policy, said.
“We take the (National Intelligence Estimate) on board as we look at the country of Iran,” he said. “The Iranians have said officially they would not support nefarious activities — movements of weapons and materials into Iraq and Afghanistan.””
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15679&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071207-10
December 7, 2007
1-15 Inf. Regt. finds cache with Iranian RPG
By Maj. Joe Sowers, 3rd HBCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO
Multi-National Division – Center PAO
FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – Soldiers from Company D, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, currently attached to 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, seized a cache that included an Iranian-made rocket propelled grenade southeast of Baghdad, Dec. 5.
A local citizen provided the information that resulted in the seizure.
Soldiers collected one 122mm mortar round, one propellant stick, 100 feet of dual strand electrical chord, and one bag of ball bearings, as well as the Iranian-made rocket propelled grenade.
Explosive ordnance disposal Soldiers from the 789th Ordnance Company, assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, confirmed the rocket propelled grenade was manufactured in Iran in 2006.
The 3-1st Cav. Regt. and 1-15th Inf. Regt. are both assigned to the 3rd HBCT, 3rd Inf. Div. from Fort Benning, Ga., and have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March.
An Iranian-made rocket propelled grenade seized by Soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment southeast of Baghdad, Dec. 5.
-30-
This and the episode with the NIE point out the need to clear some dead wood from our intelligence community. As a former member, I am appalled with the short sightedness of the report, particularly within the context of current KNOWN Iranian activities. But what boils me over are the POLICY recommendations. That is not the intelligence communities role, because once they do that, then they cease to look at intelligence data objectively and begin to filter it to fit their desired policy outcome. Policy is the purview if the President, not some intelligence wonk who lives his/her life in a high security building without windows. Grrrrr