Flaunting it to our faces: Iranians helping Iraqis - CoverUps.com

April 2007

Our True Enemy In Iraq

When is the media going to go full throttle on every attempt Iran has made to subvert the fledgling democracy in Iraq? When is it going to call an enemy an enemy and realize that one of the reasons President Bush gets a hard time is because he fights our enemies with one arm tied behind his back. Who is holding the rope? Our own media, whom refuse to call an enemy an enemy!

• BAGHDAD Iranian intelligence operatives have been training Iraqi fighters inside Iran on how to use and assemble deadly roadside bombs known as EFPs,the U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
• Commanders of a splinter group inside the Shiite Mahdi Army militia have told The Associated Press that there are as many as 4,000 members of their organization that were trained in Iranand that they have stockpiles of EFPs, a weapon that causes great uneasiness among U.S. forces here because they penetrate heavily armored vehicles.
• U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell would not say how many militia fighters had been trained in Iran but said that questioning of fighters captured as recently as this month confirmed many had been in Iranian training camps.
• EFP stands for explosively formed penetrator, deadly roadside bombs that hurl a fist-size lump of molten copper capable of piercing armor.
• In January, U.S. officials said at least 170 U.S. soldiers had been killed by EFPs.
• Caldwell also said the U.S. military had evidence that Iranian intelligence agents were active in Iraq in funding, training and arming Shiite militia fighters.
• The general would not say specifically which arm of the Iranian government was doing the training but called the trainers "surrogates" of Iran's intelligence agency.
• At least 3,287 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an AP count. The figure includes seven military civilians.
• Meanwhile, bodies lay scattered across two central Baghdad neighborhoods after a raging battle left 20 suspected insurgents and four Iraqi soldiers dead, and 16 U.S. soldiers wounded, witnesses and officials said.

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Iran May Be Helping Iraqis Build Bombs
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Associated Press Writer

Our Take

We have to call an enemy an enemy and realize we are in for a long fight to keep Iraq’s new democracy afloat. Towards those ends, our biggest enemy towards those ends is becoming increasingly clear: Iran. How much longer will the U.S. media continue to give Iran a pass?