Gen. Petraeus: Iran Behind Yesterday's Green Zone Attack
General David Petraeus said he has evidence that Iran was behind yesterday's Green Zone rocket attacks.
The BBC reported:
The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets.
He said Iran was adding what he described as "lethal accelerants" to a very combustible mix.
...In an interview with BBC world affairs editor John Simpson, Gen Petraeus said violence in Iraq was being perpetuated by Iran's Quds Force, a branch of the Revolutionary Guards.
"The rockets that were launched at the Green Zone yesterday, for example... were Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets," he said, adding that the groups that fired them were funded and trained by the Quds Force.
"All of this in complete violation of promises made by President Ahmadinejad and the other most senior Iranian leaders to their Iraqi counterparts."
The barrage hit the Green Zone on Sunday morning. Some rockets missed their targets killing 15 Iraqi civilians.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/24/2008 12:08:00 PM
7 Comments:
The Iranian Government is going to keep up the heat because anything that keeps us there longer in Iraq, keeps our eyes off N. Korea...I bet some kind of deal was set up like this years ago.
BBC SHILLING FOR TERRORISTS
"The barrage hit the Green Zone on Sunday morning. Some rockets missed their targets killing 15 Iraqi civilians."
NO! NO! NO! The civilians WERE the targets!
The BBC has been caught lying before...
One recent bald-faced example.
Or, see the same story, here.
And, if they would lie to make their own queen look bad, what wouldn't they lie about?
In fact, it's virtually impossible for them to tell the truth about Israel.
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is it soup yet??
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The United States does nothing about it, so what can one expect of Iran then. They are just going to continue pushing at Iraq until they are in a position militarily to do some serious damage to Iraq, Israel, and America.
Every time it is found that Iran is attacking Iraq and American/coalition troops, I would fly over and drop bombs on their airports, runways, etc. until they got the point. The only way to deal with a bully, is to give them a good smackdown.
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HT : Ali Bobba @ ITM
BBC Caught Red-Handed on Anti-Israel, False Coverage
sarc on\
no, it can't be, say it ain't so BBC!!
/sarc off
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re: bg @ ..
oops!!
sorry ytba @ 1:29 PM..
a-duh-me.. knew i'd seen that somewhere else.. ;)
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HT : Pajamas Media
Gen. Petraeus vs. the British Press
excerpts:
[Multi-National Force-Iraq commanding General David Petraeus has little use for recent claims in the British press that the Surge is on the verge of collapse in parts of Iraq. In an e-mail to Pajamas Media, Petraeus wrote that the story, as reported in the Guardian were “based on dated info.”
In addition, he said that reports that the Iraqi government is refusing to employ Sunnis are incorrect. “The National Reconciliation Committee just approved a list of over 3,500 names of Diyala Sons of Iraq for the Iraqi Police,” wrote General Petraeus in his email, a sign that more jobs integrating the Sunnis within the government’s security forces were forthcoming.]
[Col .Steven Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for General Petraeus, told Pajamas Media that “the issues up in Diyala were fixed and [they] have been back to work for a while.”
Boylan noted that “We have a release on that in fact on the web site [located here — ed.] and it also was put out to the media, and discussed in our press conference.”]
[This mundane reality may not provide the drama and sensationalist copy: which is perhaps the reason that the Guardian isn’t particularly interested in reporting it accurately.]
aah, don't ya just love how consistently wrong the media is no matter where their bogus news stories originates from..
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