Why would it be Iran? Remember this?:KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A top American commander on Friday accused Iran of supplying powerful roadside bombs to militants in Afghanistan and said the U.S. would "act decisively" if the cross-border flow continues.
Heavy battles in the violence-plagued south, meanwhile, killed 75 Taliban and at least six civilians, and a suicide car bomb in the capital killed a French soldier and an Afghan bystander.
Adm. William Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as explosively formed penetrators.
"The Iranians are clearly supplying some amount of lethal aid," Fallon told The Associated Press during a trip to Afghanistan. "There is no doubt ... that agents from Iran are involved in aiding the insurgency."
Iran was not on good terms with the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered hundreds of thousands of refugees. The Iranians publicly endorsed the U.S.-led fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida and cooperated with the United States in trying to limit the spread of narcotics from Afghanistan.And this?:
But if Iran is involved in helping the hated Taliban or the fanatical al-Qaeda, could it be because of this?:Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards fought alongside and advised the Afghan rebels who helped U.S. forces topple Afghanistan's Taliban regime in the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the guards' former leader says.
In an interview by e-mail, Mohsen Rezaie, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections next week, says the United States has not given Iran enough credit. He says Iran played an "important role in the overthrow of the Taliban" in 2001.
Just exactly who is the terrorist, Mr. Bush?A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran.
It has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.
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I can't even keep track anymore. What a mess Bush has made.
Hell, they'll blame every hangnail and sunburn on Iran until BushCo is run out of office. And the Stupid People will fall for it because 'Bush is a decisive leader and loves America.'
At this point, we might as well stand in the streets and pray for the damned meteors to hurry up.
Geez.. that sunburn my daughter got at the beach was a terrorist attack? Bomb them!! Bomb them now!!
Every village "blacksmith" in the tribal region can hammer together an AK-47 in less than a week from a junked car. [They use axles for the barrels.]
An explosively formed penetrator is a pipe filled with a shaped charge capped by a copper ashtray. These guys have been metal workers as long as there has been metal. There is no precision machining required for a EFP.
The Iranians don't like opium which is why it is shipped through Pakistan or the former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
Ah. Bryan, you just explained why Tajikistan was not pleased to have a bridge built between it and Afghanistan:
No matter how good these bridges are in economic terms, it seems that the government of Tajikistan is not passionate to use them at full capacity. There is a serious concern that bridges will increase not only trade but also the inflow of narcotics. Yesterday, president Emomali Rahmon blamed NATO and US in not struggling against the production of narcotics in Afghanistan. According to Rahmon every time he tried to tell the representatives of NATO and US about his concerns, they always said in response that struggle against narcotics is not part of their mission in Afghanistan.
The Tajik government has a major drug and corruption problem because of the opium and problems with its neighbors because most of the drugs are headed to Europe.
They don't want to spend the money to guard the bridge, knowing whoever is guarding the bridge will be bought off in a matter of time.
The Iranians and Chinese have control of their borders and there is a lot of combat in the south, so the bulk of the drugs will flow north.
Thanks, Bryan. I have to confess a year ago I had no idea where these countries were. I had no idea of their immense size, and their importance to the US, Russia, China, India, and Iran.
The drug trade with all the money and routes, mafias and paid-off officials is just another level of corruption on top of the oil.
Talk about having a target painted on your back...
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