The British government had made a big fuzz claiming Iran to be behind a new type of IED trigger used in Basra in south Iraq. It had to retract that claim:
Britain has dropped the charge of Iranian involvement after senior officials had repeatedly accused the Tehran regime of supplying sophisticated explosive devices to insurgents. Government officials now acknowledge that there is no evidence, or even reliable intelligence, connecting the Iranian government to the infra-red triggered bombs which have killed 10 British soldiers in the past eight months.
So the story of Iran supporting guerrilla in Iraq is, for now, inoperative. This after the news in all western countries had played it up. Don´t expect any station or major paper to report the retraction.
But wait, there is another war going on. The Sunday Times, just a few days ago:
British troops set to deploy to southern Afghanistan this spring could sustain losses on a scale not seen since the Falklands war, military intelligence officers have warned.
They say insurgent forces in the south are preparing for a large offensive by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, backed by sophisticated weapons and training from Iran.
Ahhh, here we go again. But why should a Shia Iran support a radical Sunni insurgency in Afghanistan? The Taliban, a creation of the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI and financed by Saudi interests, is operating in south east Afghanistan, along the Pakistani border.
Both, geography and political/religious alignment, make the claim unbelievable.
What is next? Zarqawi and Ahmadinejad sighted in a North Korean love hotel?
The Lincoln group, Rendon and others get $300 million to come up with propaganda. For such a bag of money, the U.S. taxpayer should demand a better product.