From another article:
US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
n 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.
*****SKIP*****
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.
And the mystery begins, why was this "
rumor" started in the first place, and who STARTED the allegations? Who's "brainstorm" was it to
blame Iran as the source of these weapons? I really can't believe that this all started because
ONE Iraqi general
thought the
weapons were from Iran!
I would have thought it would have been pretty easy for the
military to identify WHERE weapons were made!
And I guess the "training and financing" allegations was, shall we say, "flimsy evidence", since the "Iraqi government announced that there is no
hard evidence against Iran".
[edit on 5/14/2008 by Keyhole]
