Posted on 04/25/2008 5:34:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NEW YORK (AFP) — The US military says it has found Iranian-made mortars, rockets and explosives in Iraq bearing recent date stamps, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
"You can see the manufacturing dates right on the armaments themselves," a senior commander in Baghdad was quoted as saying. "These are very clearly weapons that were made in the last month or so."
Iran denies supplying ammunition to Iraqi militants, or training them.
Earlier this week, a US general in Iraq said that the increasingly sophisticated attacks carried out by Shiite extremists were evidence that they were getting extra aid from Iranian groups in the country.
Major General Rick Lynch, commander of US forces in central Iraq, said rocket and mortar attacks by Shiite extremists were "more effective than before."
He charged that this indicated a rise in Iranian help to the militants.
"We are seeing an increase in (Iranian) influence... the number of attacks that are directly attributed to Iranian influence have indeed increased," Lynch said.
"The number of EFP (explosively formed penetrator) attacks have increased, the number of Iranian rocket attacks have indeed increased, the amount of Iranian weapons I am finding on the battlefield has increased. The amount of Shiite extremists who tie their training back to Iran have indeed increased."
Lynch, whose area of operation in Iraq has a long stretch of border with Iran, also charged that his troops have found large numbers of caches of weapons and ammunition bearing Iranian markings.
Citing a recent example, the general said his troops found in one place "enough components for 1,100 EFPs directly traceable back to Iran."
Designed in China, built in Iran, used in Iraq.
Reported here on Monday 21 April, 2008 http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18648&Itemid=1
and here on Monday 21 April, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004946/posts
What took ya so long BlameStreamMedia????
Why can’t they just be lobbed back into Iran? We would just be returning them.
I was thinking along the lines of teams going into Iran and sabotaging the factories.
Well,...this is just AFP....
If Iran has no inclination to abide by any rules or guidelines of civilized nations, why would it stamp place of origin data as well as date of manufacture for weapons intended for Iraq?
Inquiring minds and all that...
You can’t ship weapons that are made in Iran if the weapons producing factories are destroyed.
Why does the administration allow the Iranian’s to get away with this crap.
I think its time to leave a few smoking craters that will prevent Iran from producing any additional weapons that can be used to kill our troops.
Flush the bombers Mr.President.
This must be a reason this is being made available to the press
Yes,...they are NOT sitting on this info at all....
Mind meld with the mighty kreskin, now the arch-foe in this case is: Iran./Just Asking - seoul62........
From a few things I have read lately, it appears the Bush administration is preparing the public for a military operation against Iran by releasing bits of info to the media. For a long time I have thought this was necessary and inevitable. We destroyed the Iraqi military counter-balance in the region and, consequently, they are fomenting a lot of problems in the region.
Twenty-nine years too late. We should have taken care of this problem when the Ayatollah Comrade Jimmuh was in office.
Let’s be sure to put the date and USA on the bombs going to the munitions factories.
I believe Iran had a hand in 911 but i still see Iran standing and trying to build the bomb...
So now they murder American forces in Iraq...I have a prediction...American government will do nothing and the Iranians know it...
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