Iran bevæbner "oprørerne" i Irak

Iran - eller i hvert fald dele af magtapparatet i landet, der har adgang til sprængstoffer og viden om at konstruere sofistikerede sprængladninger - er blevet afsløret i at levere den slags sprængladninger der for en uges penge siden kostede 14 amerikanske marinesoldater livet. Iflg Iranmania:

Many of the new roadside bombs used to attack American and government forces in Iraq have been designed in Iran and shipped in from there, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Citing unnamed military and intelligence officials, the newspaper said the deadlier bombs could become more common as insurgent bomb makers learn the techniques to make the weapons themselves in Iraq. ..

The paper said that unlike the improvised explosive devices devised from Iraq's vast stockpiles of missiles, artillery shells and other arms, the new weapons are specially designed to destroy armored vehicles.

The bombs feature shaped charges, which penetrate armor by focusing explosive power in a single direction and by firing a metal projectile embedded in the device into the target at high speed.

Since they first began appearing about two months ago, some of these devices have been seized, including one large shipment that was captured last week in northeast Iraq coming from Iran, The Times said.

Det er så hvad det er - det er "politics as usual" på de kanter, så det må bare være et spørgsmål om at amerikanerne giver sig til at bevæbne resterne af PKK og Mujahedeen Khalq og sender dem ind i Iran. Førstnævntes guerillaer er begyndt at sprede deres aktiviteter fra udelukkende at omfatte Tyrkiet til nu også at tage sigte på Iran. I søndags dræbte de fire Iranske politifolk ved byen Urmia i V-Iran.

Henrik