U.S. ties Iranian leader to bombs killing U.S. troops

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@Mr. Moto

Article in the Daily Telegraph.

Last year, the Steyr company in Austria shipped 800 .50 caliber rifles to Iran. The weapons were requested by the government there to help with antinarcotics efforts.

Over the last year, more than 100 of those weapons, or more than 12% of of a shipment of rifles that cost more than $23,000 each, have been discovered in the hands of insurgents in Iraq by British and American forces. The weapons have been used to kill at least one American officer.

This is another smoking gun, this time a literal one.

You’re right. :: picks up the Red Phone :: “General, prepare the 509th for a ‘special’ mission. Damn right, I said ‘special’, and I want those bombs dialed up to maximum yield! I don’t want to see an erg less than 340 kilotons out of any of them. The target? Damnit, didn’t you get the news? Austria has been selling weapons of mass destruction used by terrorists attacking our troops in Iraq. Make your target Steyr, Austria, and send every B2 you have! Let’s get going, there’s no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all.”

Stranger

[BrainGlutton]

The whole MENA is one big arms bazaar. This probably will not change in our lifetime.

[ElvisL1ves]

So, Mr. Moto, what exactly do you think we should do about it? Something that won’t make *us * the bad guys, I hope.

[DMC]

@magellan01

SHHH!. Didn’t you get the memo? You’re supposed to say something to the effect that “you’re opposed to the war but you support the troops”, or something similar. Pay attention. Try not to let this slip out again.

Why should he say that, when it’s never been his stance? While it’s not a widely shared opinion, Der Trihs has never waivered from it.

[Squink]

Copper Disk Manufacture in Baghdad
Formed Penetrator Assembly North of the Capital

Among the confusing elements were cardboard boxes of the gray plastic PVC tubes used to make the canisters. The boxes appeared to contain shipments of tubes directly from factories in the Middle East, none of them in Iran. One box said in English that the tubes inside had been made in the United Arab Emirates and another said, in Arabic, “plastic made in Haditha,” a restive Sunni town on the Euphrates River in Iraq.

Items of local manufacture do not implicate Iran.