Michael Gordon, co-writer of Judith Miller, is again stenographing the U.S. military’s lies to launch another war.
Attacks on American-led forces using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the American military.
The devices, known as explosively formed penetrators, were used to carry out 99 attacks last month and accounted for a third of the combat deaths suffered by the American-led forces, according to American military officials.
This a lie (there are more in the article) as the EFPs are likely manufactured in Iraq. How do we know? Well …
The Independent on Sunday can also reveal that the bombs and the firing devices used to kill the soldiers, as well as two private security guards, were initially created by the UK security services as part of a counter-terrorism strategy at the height of the troubles in the early 1990s.
According to security sources, the technology for the bombs used in the attacks, which were developed using technology from photographic flash units, was employed by the IRA some 15 years ago after Irish terrorists were given advice by British agents.
Revealed: IRA bombs killed eight British soldiers in Iraq, Independent, October 16, 2005
But in November, U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of copper disks, 5 inches in diameter, stamped out as part of what was clearly an ongoing order. This ominous discovery, unreported until now, makes it clear that Iraqi insurgents have no need to rely on Iran as the source of EFPs.
In Iraq, anyone can make a bomb, LA Times, February 16, 2007
The Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.), troops "uncovered a makeshift factory used to construct advanced roadside bombs that the U.S. had thought were made only in Iran." The main feature of the find were several copper liners that are the main component of EFPs.
WSJ via TPMM, February 27, 2007
But while the find gave experts much more information on
the makings of the E.F.P.’s, which the American military has repeatedly
argued must originate in Iran, the cache also included items that
appeared to cloud the issue.
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.
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[A]nalysts
have expressed skepticism that the American military has made a strong
case for the Iranian origin of the E.F.P.’s as tensions are running
high between the United States and Iran over its nuclear program.
U.S. Displays Bomb Parts Said to Be Made in Iran, NYT, February 27, 2007
A U.S. military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Bleichwehl, said three to six "enemy fighters" were killed, five wounded and 17 captured. U.S. and Iraqi forces suffered no fatalities, he said.
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Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs), a particularly deadly type of explosive that can destroy a main battle tank and several weapons caches.
Iraqi, U.S. forces sweep through volatile Iraqi city, Boston Globe, April 6, 2007
U.S. and Iraqi forces uncovered an assembly area for the powerful roadside bombs known as explosively formed projectiles, the statement said. Four bombs were already assembled, it added, and others were in various stages of being put together.
Chlorine gas attack by truck bomber kills up to 30 in Iraq, IHT/NYT, April 7, 2007
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