Iraq readies arms case against Iran
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By Sara A. Carter
May 7, 2008
Samir Sumaida'ie, Iraq's ambassador to the U.S., meets with editors and reporters of The Washington Times.
Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. said yesterday that a high-level committee will investigate Iran's role in arms trafficking across his country's borders, after the discovery of large caches of weapons and explosive devices recently manufactured in Iran.
"It's a bit disingenuous to believe such quantities of up-to-date weapons manufactured this year, last year, can flow into the country without the knowledge of the Iranian government," Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie told editors and reporters at The Washington Times.
"However, I understand that the prime minister ordered the formation of the committee only in the last 48 hours to put facts together, to establish where the connection is between these weapons and evidence of training so that we can basically confront our Iranian neighbors," he said.
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Mr. Sumaida'ie said the Iraqi investigative committee, appointed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, will include the ministers of interior and defense and will gauge the full facts of the situation.
The committee was established on the heels of a parliamentary delegation that traveled to Tehran last week claiming to have evidence that Iran was providing mortars, rockets, small arms and armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, that troops have discovered in recent months.
Iranian officials have denied accusations that they are supplying weapons to militias in Iraq.