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US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
(source: CASMII)
Saturday, May 10, 2008

CASMII Press Release

10 May 2008

"US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all"

In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.

According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: “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 reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.”

The US , which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its “evidence” of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US “evidence” to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted “training, financing and arming” militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.

In another extraordinary event this week, the US spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, for the first time did not blame Iran for the violence in Iraq and in fact did not make any reference to Iran at all in his introductory remarks to the world media on Wednesday when he described the large arsenal of weapons found by Iraqi forces in Karbala.

[Lasher]

1. Does stupidity have a limit?

I have started to think it does not.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Don't tell me, let me guess.

Made in the U.S.A.

[yellowcanine]

7. Right. Probably Toledo or Detroit or some such place. Does this guv get ANYTHING right?

It appears not.

[lumpy]

3. Appreciate the post Katty..I recommend everyone reading

the source address posted. Very interesting.

[katty]

4. sure, yes, lots of interesting items

[MADem]

5. Iran doesn't make a lot of weapons, anyway. They buy a lot, from

China and others, and "repurpose" a lot of stuff.

[alstephenson]

6. K & R

This needs more exposure.

[struggle4progress]

8. The Amazing One Trick Pony will be back next week

[bhikkhu]

9. K&R. I only wish the media would give it some play.

I expect no shortage of fear and loathing of "ferriners" from that side, however. Learn from Iraq, or stay on the same miserable path, over and over and over and over.....