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US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
(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.
In contrast, the Pentagon in August 2007 admitted that it had lost track
of a third of the weapons distributed to the Iraqi security forces in
2004/2005. The 190,000 assault rifles and pistols roam free in Iraqi
streets today.
In the past year, the US leaders have been relentless in propagating their
charges of Iranian meddling and fomenting violence in Iraq and since the
release of the key judgments of the US National Intelligence Estimate in
December that Iran does not have a nuclear weaponisation programme, these
accusations have sharply intensified.
The US charges of Iranian interference in Iraq too have now collapsed. Any
threat of military strike against Iran is in violation of the UN charter
and the IAEA's continued supervision on Iran's uranium enrichment
facilities means there is no justification for sanctions.
CASMII calls on the US to change course and enter into comprehensive and
unconditional negotiations with Iran.
For more information or to contact CASMII please visit
http://www.campaigniran.org
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Source URL:
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/casmii/index.php?q=node/4886
Links:
[1]
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html
[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.iran/
[3]
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19159&Itemid=131
[4]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pentagon-admits-190000-weapons-missing-in-iraq-460551.html
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Alamaine, IVe
Grand Forks, ND, US of A
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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a
philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn." -
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin)
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