Know Thy Enemy: Iranian Weapons Still
Being Used Against U.s. Troops

Feb. 2007

How many times must we have to stomach U.S. troops suffering casualties because of another country’s meddling into the affairs of Iraq? The evidence below is culled from a collection of Debkafile reports in February 2007, which we summarize below. It paints a continuing and systemic campaign by Iran to arm our enemies, who are killing our soldiers. When will enough be enough?

Evidence continues to mount

Debkafile reports that last month, two Iranian QW-1 and SA-7 missile consignments reached Iraqi insurgents allied with al Qaeda and one, radical Shiite Moqtada Sadr’s Shiite militia, the Mehdi Army. Israeli sources report the same anti-air weapons were delivered at about the same time to Hizballah units in Lebanon including the south.

Iran’s arms industry has succeeded in replicating a quality version of the Chinese QW-1 and improved its electronics. It is 1.447meters long and packs 16.5 kilos of explosives. The IDF estimates that the first of these missiles used experimentally by Hizballah caused an Israeli helicopter to explode during take-off near the Litani River in the Lebanon War last summer. Iranian markings have been erased from the equipment going into Iraq and Lebanon to suggest they were bought on the black market.

Dated Soviet-era models of the SA-7 were bought by Iran on Far East black markets and supplied to Iraqi insurgents and also pro-Tehran governors in western Afghanistan. Iran is preparing the ground for a Shiite insurgency against NATO forces there.

Weapons smuggled in concealed compartments of trucks transporting building materials and iron from Iran for a Kurdish building company. After unloading their legitimate freight, the trucks drove on south up to the regional border where Iraqi insurgents off-loaded the missiles to their vehicles and distributed them to their networks in Baqouba, Ramadi and Tikrit – north of Baghdad and Hilla to the south.

In January, two-man teams of Iraqi insurgents and Hizballah operatives were trained in the use of the new weapons against American and Israeli helicopters as instructors for missile crews in Iraq and Lebanon. One crewman was taught to locate the target and help the second to aim. The training facilities were set up in Kermanshah and Qasr-e Shirin close to the Iraqi border.

Tehran is stepping up its provocations in reprisal for the US president George W. Bush’s directive to US forces to capture or kill Iranian agents, America’s refusal to release the Revolutionary Guards officers captured in Irbil and finally by the seizure last week of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad.

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What should be done?

The old say goes “know thy enemy.” The enemy is Iran.

We need to quit kidding ourselves that Iran is not acting in open aggression against the U.S. in Iraq. The media, here and internationally, needs to hold Iran accountable.

Iran is supplying, arming and training Iraqi insurgents. Iran is every bit the enemy combatant as the actual insurgents causing widespread violence and carnage. Iran is who continuing to derail the democracy process in Iraq and doesn’t even hide behind their fiery rhetoric about wiping Israel of the face of the Earth. Again, we remind you, “Know thy enemy.”

We only wonder how many in the Democratic Congress or the mainstream media have heard this saying before? Not many from where we are standing.

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