Reports Iranian arms reaching Taliban worry U.S.

Source: Reuters

KABUL, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The United States is concerned over reports that Iranian-made weapons are crossing the Afghan border and reaching Islamist Taliban insurgents, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.

Iran supported Afghan groups fighting the Taliban in the 1990s and played a crucial role in helping to topple the Taliban's Sunni government, ousted by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, by supporting their Mujahideen foes.

The Shiite Islamic Republic has repeatedly in the past denied accusations by U.S. officials that it is arming the resurgent Taliban, who are largely active in southern and eastern areas close to the border with Pakistan.

"We are concerned by reports, which we consider to be reliable, of Iranian explosively formed projectiles and other kinds of military equipment coming from Iran across the border and coming into the hands of the Taliban," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte told reporters on a visit to Kabul.

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so many enemies so little time

We were so much smoother in Iraq -- just letting the insurgents take the arms from unguarded arms depots, rather than directly supplying them.

Hey, do you suppose that any of those arms came from Monaco? Invade Monaco!!!

Gee, I remember "reliable reports" that told us Saddam was trying to acquire Yellow Cake uranium. There were "reliable reports" that he had tons and tons of nerve and biological warheads at the ready. There were "reliable reports" that there were drones capable of delivering these warheads to Israel, or perhaps even our own shores. There were "reliable reports" that there were mobile biological laboratories everywhere in Iraq. There were "reliable reports" that Saddam was allowing Al Qaeda terrorists to train in Iraq.

Tell me more about your fucking reliable reports, you pigs! :mad:

But let's ignore real facts

This is the same M.O. they used before bombing Iraq, now we just need Scott Ritter telling us Iran has no WM D's, oh wait, he is already doing that.