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In the past two weeks, Iran has been pumping into Iraq two types of extra-lethal weapons in very large quantities. They have already taken their toll in the shooting down of two military helicopters - one American and one British – and an estimated 19 deaths of US military personnel.
DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources estimate the delivery to Iraqi insurgents as consisting of around 1,000 SA-7 Strela ground-air missiles made in Iran, and a very large quantity of a newly-developed roadside bomb, loaded with compressed gas instead of ball bearings and cartridges, to magnify their blast and explosive power.
The supplies have been distributed across Iraq - Basra and Amara in the south, Baghdad and its environs, Haditha in the west, and Mosul in the north.
Until the invasion of Iraq, many of the shoulder-fired weapons believed to be outside government controls were those provided by the United States and its allies to mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan to assist in their resistance against Soviet forces during the 1980's. Those weapons included American-made Stinger and British-made Blowpipe missiles, but by December 2002, American-led forces in Afghanistan had captured more than 5,000 of the missiles from the Taliban and Al Qaeda, according to news reports at the time.
Originally posted by skippytjc
Wow,
Two responses and two amazing statements of hatred. One hoping the insurgents get better weapons and the other an anti-Semite.
At least you guys don’t veil your hatred...
And dont worry Mehran, you and yours are making your own beds. Soon you will have to sleep in them...
Originally posted by Mehran
yeah i hope the insurgents get better weapons because the whole world is tired of the way your government is running things and how you messed everything up in the middle east, by the way i am comfortable with my king size bed
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
If these Mossad agents knew
Preparing for a Nuclear Iran: The Role of the CIA
Originally posted by XphilesPhan
iran is cruising for a black eye. unfortuneately it will be their people that will suffer for the decisions of their government.
Originally posted by skippytjc
Wow,
Two responses and two amazing statements of hatred. and the other an anti-Semite.
At least you guys don’t veil your hatred...
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Sorry if I am sceptical of a single Israeli source in this matter skippy, particularly as it has been covered in the mainstream press long ago.
Old SA7's huh?
'Course I don't suppose there might be the slightest possibility that at least some of this stuff is in fact the stocks of the more advanced US 'Stinger' being used, hmmm?
What with the way the US showered that kind of weaponry on the region not so long ago when it suited them, eh?
You'll even find stories about British Blowpipes knocking about too.
Well, I suppose with the way Bush, Rummy and the rest are thought of in the US right now the last thing they need is for stories to turn up about how US (and the allied) servicemen are being killed by the weapons 'we' once supplied, hmmmm?
No chance of that kind of thing making the headlines (again), right?
Until the invasion of Iraq, many of the shoulder-fired weapons believed to be outside government controls were those provided by the United States and its allies to mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan to assist in their resistance against Soviet forces during the 1980's. Those weapons included American-made Stinger and British-made Blowpipe missiles, but by December 2002, American-led forces in Afghanistan had captured more than 5,000 of the missiles from the Taliban and Al Qaeda, according to news reports at the time.
www.myaoc.org/eweb/images/aoc_library/Advocacy/Legislative/ManPads/NYTimes_11062004.pdf
Oooooh that scary old Iran, huh!
In late 2001, Pentagon officials acknowledged that some of the 2,000 missiles sent to Afghan fighters during the 1980s might have fallen into the hands of Taliban or Al-Qaeda fighters.
www.payvand.com...