British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran (This bears repeating.)

[Leo 9]

British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran
Troops in Southeast Iraq Test U.S. Claim of Aid for Militias

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, October 4, 2006; A21



ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER -- Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled by the United States against Iran: that Iran is secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding and training for attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the desert in the start of what British officers said would be months of patrols aimed at finding the illicit weapons trafficking from Iran, or any sign of it.

There's just one thing.

"I suspect there's nothing out there," the commander, Lt. Col. David Labouchere, said last month, speaking at an overnight camp near the border. "And I intend to prove it."

Other senior British military leaders spoke as explicitly in interviews over the previous two months. Britain, whose forces have had responsibility for security in southeastern Iraq since the war began, has found nothing to support the Americans' contention that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq, several senior military officials said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301577_pf.html

[R_M]

1. So how soon will Bush attack Iran then?

[karlrschneider]

2. Those sneaky Persians have cloaking devices.

:eyes:

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Nah, it's gotta be teleportation machines. Beam 'em over!

[NMDemDist2]

3. kicking it n/t

[mod mom]

4. bu$h logic-then we should bomb the British.

[oblivious]

5. "I suspect there's nothing out there," the commander, Lt. Col. David Labouchere, said

But the fucking propagandists won't stop repeating Iran's complicity. It's unbelievable the effect those headlines have on the average newspaper reader.

[magellan]

6. Facts haven't stopped Bush** from lying in the past

They aren't likely to stop him now. The question is how many people in this country are still listening to anything Dimson says anymore.

K&R for the British Forces.

[Octafish]

7. Ollie the Traitor and Fawn Hall shredded all the documents...

Poindexter and Poppy, too, knew how to move arms to Iran.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_05.htm

Thanks for an important article, Leo 9! And a hearty welcome to DU!

[Cobalt-60]

9. They have all they need at home

Bushco made double d*mned sure that the insurgents had plenty of weapons by leaving captured ammunition dumps unguarded.
They don't need to go to Iran or Syria when their stores are scattered through every hidey hole in Iraq.

[LSK]

10. K&R and Bookmarking

THIS IS HUGE!!!

BUSH LIES AGAIN.

WEAPONS FROM IRAN = WMD!!!!!

SPREAD IT EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[Gloria]

11. Blair? Do you care to comment? NOW????

[Supersedeas]

23. the Poodle is in seclusion until after the Chimp makes his move

[SanCristobal]

12. Like I trust the British,

they thought Saddam had WMD. We need to stop Iran at any cost!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

13. No, Blair and a few of his cronies did

Most of us Brits were always against this nonsense.

[SanCristobal]

14. So I should trust a nation led by a sinister cabal of war mongers?!

No thank you! I'll rely on my president to steer America to success! Iran must be stopped before they can give terrorists nuclear weapons! It's bad enough their embassy staff attacked us in Iraq! Iran must be stopped before it is to late!

[SanCristobal]

15. This has been sarcasm, in case anyone missed that point.

[w4rma]

19. sarcasm tag

:sarcasm:

[LeftishBrit]

18. Yes, we were always against it

Polls overwhemingly against the war from the beginning. Lots of demos and protests and petitions. Blair has stayed as long as he has, because the opposition was even worse. Fortunately, his own party have made him agree to go within a few months, and Gordon Brown seems at least less insane.

[watrwefitinfor]

16. This needs to be kept kicked up.

Can anyone get it to KO or someone who gives a damn and has a voice?

Wat

[Pooka Fey]

17. If * came in wet and told me it was raining, I'd go outside and take a look myself

How can anyone actually believe something coming out of that psychpath's mouth? :banghead: Is there anyone (with critical thinking skills) in this country who thinks that the * administration has any credibility whatsoever?

[donkeyotay]

20. In KO's special comment last night he mentioned that reporters

were handed the line "if you knew what we know, but can't tell you" again in regard to Iran. Folks, remember a few days back the post about Ledeen? Remember the story about the Iranians being captured (in Baghdad?) by US forces and Maliki having them released? Ledeen supposedly claimed that one of those Iranians had "the wiring diagram" to Iraq. The article said that Ledeen said that they made sure bush knew about it.

So, Too-fuckin-stoopid-to-be-president is still listening to the same neocon PNAC rightwing mofo's that brought us this far. That's why we need to stop this moving forward crap and look backward and hold the people who did this accountable.

[Pawel K]

21. You mean this administration would make something like that up?

No, this cant be.

Next you are going to tell me that American people are gullible enough to believe that bushit.

:eyes:

[SOS]

22. Maybe Bremer shouldn't have fired all the border guards?

And is anyone watching the Saudi border?
The Saudi's are supplying money, guns and fighters to the Sunni factions.

[leveymg]

24. Who cares about what the Brits say - they're foreigners.

Bet they're Muslim sympathizers. Snark, snort.

[NewJeffCT]

25. Isn't this also why Negroponte was "relocated"

From the head of intel to Condi's #2 at State?

He had thought the intel showed Iran was not much of a threat?

Getting transferred for doing his job, it seems.