Occupation Iraq: AP Could, If, But

What a piece of work they are. You take this piece that ostensibly relaxes the war drums against Iran, and by the time you are three-quarters through you realize it is just another piece of war-promoting AP propaganda!

They might as well be a Pentagon sock puppet!

"Some say Iran halts supply of key bomb; Americans, Iraqis cite strategic shift" by Anne Gearan, Associated Press | December 12, 2008

WASHINGTON - Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by the Iranian leadership, US and Iraqi authorities said yesterday.

Umm, yeah. Were they ever?

Israel's Post-It Bombs

Occupation Iraq: British Bombers

Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs

Prop 201 tutorial

FRU

Are we CLEAR?

Use of the armor-piercing explosives - known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs - has dwindled sharply in recent months, said Army Lieutenant General Thomas Metz, head of the Pentagon office created to counter roadside bombs in Iran and Afghanistan.

Yeah, and know we know why! Of course, "Al-CIA-Duh" bombings always show up JUST WHEN the occupation NEEDS THEM, too!!! Hey, when YOU are DOIN' the BOMBIN', it is pretty easy to control!

Metz estimated that US forces find between 12 and 20 of the devices in Iraq each month, down from 60 to 80 earlier this year. "Someone . . . has made the decision to bring them down," Metz told reporters.

I really don't need to respond to that, do I? We KNOW WHO made the decisions!

Asked if the elite Iranian Republican Guard Corps has made a deliberate choice to limit use of EFPs, Metz nodded: "I think you could draw that inference from the data."

Of course, they are STILL BLAMING IRAN so the POINT is being HAMMERED into the readers' head!

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh agreed Iran has curtailed its activity inside Iraq. He said he thinks Iran has concluded that a new security agreement between the United States and Iraq poses no threat to Iran. Iran opposed the agreement as a blessing for foreign forces to remain in Iraq, and encouraged Iraq's democratic government to reject it.

Sigh. Yeah, I am sick of the Zionist rewriting and lying about the past:

Occupation Iraq: Iranians Support SOFA Agreement

Now let's get to the QUALIFIERS, shall we?

The United States has long asserted that Iran or Iranian-backed groups are using Iraqi Shi'ite militias as proxies to kill US troops in Iraq. Iran denies the Bush administration allegations that it supplies money and weapons, but independent analysts have said US evidence is strong, if circumstantial.

Translation: As other bloggers have pointed out, the U.S. "evidence" is bulls*** because they NEVER SHOW IT to us!! Or if they do, it has markings in ENGLISH!

The United States cites the spread of powerful EFP roadside bombs as the clearest Iranian fingerprint. US military officers say they know the EFPs come from Iran because they bear Iranian markings and because captured militants have told them so.

Did we TORTURE them first?

The SCALE of LIES is IMMENSE and nearly UNIMAGINABLE, isn't it?

The workmanship is so precise they could only come from a modern factory with machine tools available in Iran but not Iraq. EFPs account for only about 5 percent of the roadside bombs found in Iraq but 30 percent of the casualties, Metz said.

The United States has never specified who in Iran's government it believes is responsible. But military briefers point out that the Quds Force branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which report to Iran's supreme leader, has a history of supporting Shi'ite militants outside Iran....

Yeah, never mind the TERRORISTS the U.S FUNDS and SUPPORTS!!!!

See: U.S. Government Harbors Terrorist Jundallah

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Terrorism, definition:

"[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping."

"The hope that Iranians will blame their own government for their hardships, and that their complaints will influence the regime"

Are we CLEAR?

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