Despite several claims made to the contrary over the past several months, US commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal today conceded that there was no proof that the Iranian government has been sending fighters or weapons to Afghanistan.
At the same time McChrystal did note that some weapons and ammunition have crossed the border from Iran to Afghanistan and that some Taliban may have even trained inside Iran, but that they were not “operationally significant” amounts.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had last month accused Iran of supporting the Taliban behind the scenes, despite Iran’s formal ties with the Karzai government and long history of animosity.
Though the flow of arms back and forth across the long, largely unguarded border is perhaps unsurprising, the claims of training camps operating in the area around Zahedan suggest that the more reasonable explanation is that Taliban receiving training there could well be forging ties with the Sunni insurgency in the Sistan-Balochistan region as opposed to the Iranian government.
McChrystal is an ignoramus and a clown. Are the Iranians now supposed to be persuaded by the subtle shading of his remarks that an offensive on Kandahar is not part of a longer range plan for attacking Iran?
Bribe Taliban Fighters http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/14/talib…
Taliban Still Working for the CIA? http://www.henrymakow.com/taliban_still_working_f…
How the CIA created Osama bin Laden http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/465/465p15….
BIN LADEN IS JEWISH, full stop. A very close friend and a MOST eminent Israeli journalist told me recently, that according to Jewish law -bin Laden is Jewish, as his mother is Jewish(!).
This is all such a farce. A tribute to Black Humor to the nth degree. All the casualties and expinditure of money! Some people are making tons of money off this misery. Our economy is going to collapse because the printing presses keep churning out dollars that will be worthless in 1-2 years.