Re: IRAQ: The elusive Iranian weapons - NOT FROM IRAN AFTER ALL

>     ..A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to
journalists
> last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United
> States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman
> attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an
Iraqi
> Army general in Karbala erroneously re****ted the items were of Iranian
> origin.
> 
> 
>
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html
> 
>   IRAN'S WEAPONS..Tina Susman of the LA Times re****ts that Iranian
> involvement in Iraq's civil war may not be everything it's been cracked
up
> to be:
> 
>     There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin
Bergner's
> introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in
Baghdad
> on Wednesday: the word "Iran," or any form of it. It was especially
striking
> as Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman here, announced the
extraordinary
> list of weapons and munitions that have been uncovered in recent weeks
since
> fighting erupted between Iraqi and U.S. security forces and ****ite
> militiamen.
> 
> 
> When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they
were
> not Iranian after all.


Surprise, surprise. Does anyone even half-belief what the US 
military and US government say might be half true? You're safer just 
assuming that they are lying. What they've said about Iran is a lie.

-Al-