NATO intercepted a weapons convoy coming from Iran

[[R-DEV]bosco]

Thursday, October 18, 2007
By FISNIK ABRASHI, AP

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The top NATO commander in Afghanistan said Thursday his troops intercepted a weapons convoy coming from Iran last month containing sophisticated explosive devices and blamed the Iranian military for involvement in its shipment.

U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill, the commander of NATO's 40,000-strong International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, said the convoy contained "a number of advance technology improvised explosive devices" and was intercepted on Sept. 5th in western Afghanistan.

"This weapons convoy clearly, geographically, originated in Iran," McNeill told reporters in Kabul.

"It is difficult for me to conceive that this convoy could have originated in Iran and come to Afghanistan, without at least the knowledge of the Iranian military," McNeill said.

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[TheOldDog]

Sure, Iran is stoking the fires, no doubt. Trouble is they cant really do much but do what they are doing, they saw what happened to Saddam. I suppose their logic is if they plan on coming for you they will anyway, the reason is immaterial, and with Bush raising the specter of WWIII they will probably work harder and faster. I recall reading that one US military commander said it was obvious Iran was shipping arms, but he he also said it was obvious it was small scale and not the good stuff they could ship if they felt inclined to, not on the scale of stinger missile supplied by the CIA in the 80's.

[Ironcomatose]

Well it this all depends on what kind of control Iran has over its military. Cause this could just be a bunch of "western haters"(which Iran has plenty of) that know some military guys who hooked them up. In a country like Iran i can see that happening. But even if that is the case we would still have to "deal" with Iran in order to stop the flow of weapons. Its not like we can just ask the Iranian government to help us out on taking out our enemies in their country(like we did with Pakistan), cause they wont listen.