Taliban's bombs came from US, not Iran

[go west young man]

Source: Asia Times Online

But according to the Pentagon agency responsible for combating roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, the increased Taliban threat to US and NATO vehicles comes not from any new technology from Iran but from Italian-made mines left over from the US Central Intelligence Agency's military assistance to the anti-Soviet jihadists in the 1980s.

In response to an inquiry from Inter Press Service (IPS), the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), a unit of the US Department of Defense, said in an e-mail that Italian-manufactured TC-6 anti-tank mines are "very common" in the Taliban-dominated areas of the country and that they had been modified to increase their lethality in improvised explosive device attacks.

The claim by the alleged Taliban commander of new, more effective weaponry supplied by Iran appears to have been deliberate misinformation for the Western press.


Read more: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI05Ak02.html

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Give's the term "blowback" new meaning.

[TomClash]

1. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4047099&mesg_id=4047099

[elocs]

2. Now, now. News is not news on DU until it gets posted at least 3 times the day it happens

and then at least for the next 3 days also, so there is actually another day to go. My local paper is considering reprinting old news in case anyone has missed it when it was actually news.

[oct2010]

3. It'll get locked again

Despite "the grim" warnings being boasted by the top brass in Iran ?
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/34/Iran-warns-of-US-great-failures-in-Afghanistan.html

I know the debate in Iraq was of the improved quality IED's supposedly being supplied from Iran. I'm sure the ser # problem has been fixed to hide country of origin and mfg dates.