U.S.: Iran sending weapons to Taliban
PARIS - A senior U.S. diplomat accused Iran on Tuesday of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan â?? the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking American official.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, speaking to reporters in Paris, said Iran was funding insurrections across the Middle East â?? and "Iran is now even transferring arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan."
"It's a country that's trying to flex its muscles, but in a way that's injurious to the interests of just about everybody else in the world," he said. "I think it's a major miscalculation."
In Afghanistan last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Iranian weapons were falling into the hands of Taliban fighters, but stopped short of blaming the government itself.
Iran's possible role in aiding insurgents in Iraq has long been hotly debated, and last month some Western and Persian Gulf governments charged that the Islamic government in Tehran is also secretly bolstering Taliban fighters.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill said Taliban fighters are showing signs of better training, using combat techniques comparable to "an advanced Western military" in ambushes of U.S. Special Forces soldiers.
"In Afghanistan it is clear that the Taliban is receiving support, including arms from ... elements of the Iranian regime," British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in the May 31 edition of the Economist.
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The time is drawing near...............
Have a good one!:s4:
U.S.: Iran sending weapons to Taliban
It's a country that's trying to flex its muscles, but in a way that's injurious to the interests of just about everybody else in the world," he said. "I think it's a major miscalculation."
Sounds like he's talking about the good old USofA. wasn't all of this Iraq shit a major mis-calculation? Booolllyaaa. We're the toughest, badest, meanest, bully on the whole schoolyard, boolya! Well, I think little old Al Queda from the hills and caves of Afganistan has kicked our asses, 3500+++ dead and 25,000 wounded, A trillion dollars in debt (1,000,000,000,000) thats with 12 zeros. What the fuck are we doing? For the egos af a few idiots we are letting our country go down the drain!
U.S.: Iran sending weapons to Taliban
It wouldn't suprise me that many of the old Shah's guard are still around in Iran....the Quds Force. Many troops from the old days, were trained at Ft Bragg and Ft Benning. The purge didn't get them in 1980, that what special forces training does for you...teaches you how to survive...and how to kill.
It is almost certain that Iranian special forces troops are in Iraq....Afghanistan.
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Again where is the hard evidence? Speculation is not valid evidence. Who during the Iran/Iraq war were sending weapons to the middle east? How about helping the Taliban fight the Russians in Afghanistan? In fact it wouldn't surprise me if Russia was offering AlQuada/Taliban help as a form of poetic justice perhaps. It takes atleast one ex military (from anywhere Earth) to train on how to fight. Then he trains 2 people and they train 2 people and so on and so on. Now we have a country possibly doing the same thing we did and it seems to confuse some as to why. Its nothing more then bad Karma coming back to bite us in the ass...
We didn't finish in Afghanistan so we moved on over to Iraq.. Now we are not finished in Afghanistan and Iraq and you want to goto war with a 3rd with the same administration that fed us lies on Iraq? "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"
PS- ROFL @ Pissheads attention whore thread on the other forum. Gogo P4B :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by Zimzum
Again where is the hard evidence? Speculation is not valid evidence. Who during the Iran/Iraq war were sending weapons to the middle east? How about helping the Taliban fight the Russians in Afghanistan? In fact it wouldn't surprise me if Russia was offering AlQuada/Taliban help as a form of poetic justice perhaps. It takes atleast one ex military (from anywhere Earth) to train on how to fight. Then he trains 2 people and they train 2 people and so on and so on. Now we have a country possibly doing the same thing we did and it seems to confuse some as to why. Its nothing more then bad Karma coming back to bite us in the ass...
We didn't finish in Afghanistan so we moved on over to Iraq.. Now we are not finished in Afghanistan and Iraq and you want to goto war with a 3rd with the same administration that fed us lies on Iraq? "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"
PS- ROFL @ Pissheads attention whore thread on the other forum. Gogo P4B :thumbsup:
Well, I think the evidence is in the body bags every time one of those IEDs blows up one of our or other coallition forces troops.
As for the other.....I started to frequent other arenas for obvious reasons. LOL
Have a good one!:s4:
U.S.: Iran sending weapons to Taliban
As for the other.....I started to frequent other arenas for obvious reasons. LOL
Sounds like it might be taverns,~LOL~.
U.S.: Iran sending weapons to Taliban
if mexico was invaded by germany I damn sure would be sending weapons down there if it had anything to do with keeping them out of my country...
I wish this stupid war would be over
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Originally Posted by THE WELSH STONER!
sounds like the usa needs bailing out! by who u ask?
nobody cause u fucked everyone in the cold war thats y and thats y terrorists attack ur country!
yes i love being controversial
???? You mean the way we took over half of Europe and did nothing for thier infrastructure? Or the wall we built up and shot those that tried to cross over?
Controversial is fine as long as it has some sort of logic to it.
Have a good one!:s4:
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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Well, I think the evidence is in the body bags every time one of those IEDs blows up one of our or other coallition forces troops.
Have a good one!:s4:
Sorry P4B, this is not evidence it is hyperbole.
Using the terms "intelligence" and "Bush Administration" together is oxymoronic. In any event, Bush has squandered any credibility the USA might have had in this regard and a person would have to be an imbicile to believe anything coming from Washington these days.
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Blame Iran LoL...man its been proven time & time again that Our Government the Bush Regime along with Israel, SA want Iran leadership gone and ground there OIL and will do anything to get it started ... dont need proof we have the Bush Regimes LIES all over the place
