Iranian Weapons Turn Up In Iraq
New Weapons Turning Up on Mideast Battlefields: Abizaid (Iranian Weapons in Iran). We shouldn’t be too surprised about this, but it is troubling nonetheless!
A new armor-busting rocket-propelled grenade believed to be of Iranian origin has shown up in Iraq in what may be “a hint about things to come,” the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Sept. 19.
Gen. John Abizaid said the weapon, an RPG-29, has a dual warhead and has proved effective against most types of armored vehicles.
“The first time we saw it was not in Iraq. We saw it in Lebanon. So to me it indicates, number one, an Iranian connection,” he told defense reporters here. “It’s hard to say in our part of the world that we operate in as to whether or not people have given U.S. a hint about things to come,” he said.
He said only a single RPG-29 has turned up in Iraq so far, and it was unclear how it was smuggled into the country.
But he said it was the latest in a number of new and more sophisticated weapons that appear to be moving onto the region’s battlefields from Iran.
He said longer-range Chinese rockets that looked new also have been found in Iraq.
Abizaid said he believed the Chinese rockets came from Iran although they may have been taken from the arms inventories of the former Iraqi regime and cleaned up. “It looked brand new to us,” he said.
The new weapons are in addition to more sophisticated roadside bombs with shaped charges that the U.S. military has long charged are being manufactured in Iran and brought into the country by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards-Quds Force.
Abizaid pointed out that Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, used a panoply of new weapons against the Israelis in Lebanon.
September 22, 2006 - 12:03 AM on September 22nd, 2006
Does any of this really surprise anyone? I heard that the triggering mechanisms for many IEDs had been tracked to manufacturing facilities in Iran over a month ago. Considering the MSM was the ones reporting it, the evidence must have been overwhelming, otherwise they’d have failed/refused to report it. After Ahmadenijad’s speech at the UN getting a standing ovation, I think it’s time to take a page out of the Jean Kirkpatrick play book and remind these 3rd world morons exactly where the majority of their foreign aid comes from.
September 22, 2006 - 12:41 AM on September 22nd, 2006
No surprise.
Say, anyone notice how Ahmadenijad looks like Gilligan with a scraggly beard? I saw a video clip of his UN speech and he looked like a demented Bob Denver.
September 22, 2006 - 07:21 AM on September 22nd, 2006
FAO- I am in agreement on the aid. We don’t need to try to prop anyone up as the next potential leader..just cut off funds and then let them get hungry enough to make the right decision.