http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Pentagon_plans_base_along_Iran_border_0910.htmlThe Pentagon is preparing to build a base near the Iraqi-Iranian border, in an effort to stem the "flow" of "advanced Iranian weaponry" to Shiite militants in Iraq, according to Monday's edition of the Wall Street Journal.
"The push also includes construction of fortified checkpoints on the major highways leading from the Iranian border to Baghdad and the installation of X-ray machines and explosives-detecting sensors at the only formal border crossing between Iran and Iraq," the Journal said.
The move comes amid continuing reports of US plans to strike Iran, and several weeks after a RAW STORY report which signaled that the US had shifted its focus from Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program to its alleged shipment of IEDs across the Iraqi-Iranian border as the principal meme in selling a possible attack.
"Gen. Petraeus is expected to warn that Iran is expanding its attempts to destabilize Iraq by providing Shiite extremists with lethal weaponry such as advanced roadside bombs capable of breaching even the strongest U.S. armor," the Journal says. "U.S. commanders say that Iranian-made weaponry is used in an increasing percentage of attacks on U.S. forces, and that Shiite extremists are now responsible for as many anti-American attacks as Sunni radicals."
Iran denies supplying weapons to Iraqi militants. Intelligence officials have told RAW STORY that some weapons manufactured in Iran -- including explosively formed penetrators, armor-piercing bombs -- are killing American troops in Iraq. Officials caution, however, that there is no evidence these devices are manufactured by the Iranian government or that the government knows of their movement.
The new U.S. base is to be built about four miles from the Iranian border.
The U.S. officer overseeing the project, Maj. Toby Logsdon, "says that the new base will have living quarters for at least 200 soldiers. He hopes U.S. forces will begin living at the new outpost in November."
"Iran will know this is here -- they will have to rethink how they do things, and the smugglers will have to rethink how they do things," he told the Journal.
"The challenge of preventing Shiite militants from smuggling weaponry and explosives across the largely porous Iraqi-Iranian border was apparent on a recent visit to Wasit, a sparsely populated Iraqi province that abuts the long border between the two countries," the paper adds. "There is no fence or wall separating Iran and Iraq, and the border itself is unmarked."
I'm going to direct all DUers to the biggest and most glaring sign that war is being manufactured:
"Gen. Petraeus is expected to warn that Iran is expanding its attempts to destabilize Iraq by providing Shiite extremists with lethal weaponry such as advanced roadside bombs capable of breaching even the strongest U.S. armor," the Journal says. "U.S. commanders say that Iranian-made weaponry is used in an increasing percentage of attacks on U.S. forces, and that Shiite extremists are now responsible for as many anti-American attacks as Sunni radicals."Petraeus has become huge in the media. He has in fact been polled to see if Americans believe he will be straight with the American people. A good amount believe he will stretch or twist the truth so war in Iraq will be continued. But that does not account for what Americans think about Petraeus and Iran. For when he speaks up and shares his report, one can now expect Iran to enter the picture as an important part of the "war on terror". It will officially mark the first step towards getting rid of another member of the so-called "Axis of Evil".
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