Posted on 06/25/2007 6:38:27 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
HERAT: More than 20 armed men crossed the border from Iran into Afghanistan and entered a town, a police commander said in the first such blunt claim by a high-ranking Afghan official.
Colonel Rahmatullah Safi - police commander in the three western provinces of Farah, Badghis and Herat - said according to intelligence information, the group of armed militants crossed the border Monday in Farah's Anardara district.
"Two pickup trucks with over 20 armed people riding in them crossed the border from Iran to Afghanistan," Safi said in his Border Police headquarters, 15 km outside Herat city.
He said according to intelligence information, the men were heading towards Zirkoh area in Farah province, which has been the site of escalating militant activity in recent months.
Safi said the police did not have the opportunity to track down the vehicles but said he had informed President Hamid Karzai and international forces in the country.
"I can say with certainty that the vehicles came from Iranian soil, and if they came from Iran with ammunitions and explosives, of course, they are supported by the Iranian government."
"If the Iranian border forces really want to stop them, they can," he added. "They have one outpost every five to 10 km."
Safi's report of the infiltration comes at a time when US officials have linked Iran's government to large shipments of weaponry to militants in Afghanistan, but Karzai and other Afghan officials have ruled out Iran's involvement and Tehran has also strongly denied funnelling weapons to Afghan militants.
Safi also revealed that during fighting Saturday night between Afghan police and insurgents in the Shindand district of Herat province, which left nine suspected Taliban and two police officers dead, police found the remains of Iranian-made bullets.
He also showed DPA five anti-tank mines that had Iranian markings, which he said were seized at the Afghan-Iran border about two weeks ago.
Safi said his police forces had information that former mujahideen fighters, who forced Soviet forces from Afghanistan and later plunged the country into a bloody civil war, were receiving training in Iranian territory and were sent back to Afghanistan to carry out attacks against the government and international forces.
In April, US officials said Iranian-made weapons had showed up in the hands of the Taliban. The Pentagon's top general, Peter Pace, said NATO forces in Afghanistan had seized Iranian-made mortars and explosives destined for the Taliban.
Last week, a top US State Department official charged in a CNN interview that the US has "irrefutable evidence" that Iran is arming Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Although not mimicking the strong nature of Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns' remarks, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said a day later that large weapons' shipments were crossing from Iran into Afghanistan and it was unlikely Tehran did not know about them.
"Given the quantities that we're seeing, it is difficult to believe that it is associated with smuggling or the drug business or that it's taking place without the knowledge of the Iranian government," Gates said.
Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, however, rejected Iran's involvement in supplying militants in a media interview, arguing that Kabul and Tehran have good relations and a stable Afghanistan is in Iran's interest. He said there was evidence weapons were coming from Iran but suggested they were from the Al Qaeda terrorist network or drug traffickers.
Gates also mentioned the good relations between the Afghan and Iranian government. "Whether Iran is trying to play both sides of the street, hedge their bets, what their motives are, other than causing trouble for us, I don't know," the US defence chief said.
Sounds like things are warming up for Ezekiel 38 - 39....
General: Iran meddling increasing in Iraq_(... on and on)
upi | 6/25/07 | upi
Posted on 06/25/2007 8:28:34 PM EDT by Flavius
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It is called the Koran, and the motive is to kill every infidel on earth to please their God to buy a ticket to Paradise. The only general mistake I see is thinking that there is any difference between HAMAS, Hizbollah, Saudi Arabia or Iran. They are all just warlords in the Empire of Islam.
One day they will go too far and some modern western nation will remove all their capitol cities. Until then, we play politics with Billions of dollars of arms sales make fat cats fatter, and cause us to have to pay them for passports.
Now there’s a perfect example of a viable outlet for hackers and spammers.
We are in an undeclared war with Iran on at least two fronts. And their ally Chavez is making noise to our South. I can’t imagine that this is being lost on our military and leaders. (Many members of Congress perhaps but not the military)
Well I certainly wouldn’t cross the border b/t Iran and Iraq unarmed either.
Since America is the Great Satan, there should be Hell to pay.
It IS another Vietnam as long as an enemy power can continuously funnel money, weapons, and troops into the theater from safe havens and our ROEs prevent us from responding. Just like in Vietnam, if we’re not going to fight no-holds-barred we might as well get the hell out, and if it goes on like it’s going for too much longer, we will.
More like "Cry havoc and turn loose the harshly worded statements."
Right now, Defense and State are ironing out the details on their plan to coordinate an opening salvo of diplomatic bluster and strongly critical memos, followed by a second wave of even more strongly worded communiques and threatened sanctions. Right now, our industrial base is tooling up with enough ink cartridges and printer paper for a sustained operation, but once adequate reserves have been built up, I would expect the onslaught of memorandums directed at the heart of Tehran to be nothing short of merciless.
ACT OF WAR
The Mexican illegals ARE those who are regularly killing Americans, and raping them, and stealing from them, and turning their cities into hellholes, etc.
Smashing idea :)
And I said you’d rather fight about the Mexican illegals, and for some to the exclusion of all other issues.
Reports now of similar things in Afghanistan...
And as of last night, gas rationing has started in Iran(announced at 9pm, enforced at 12am - 3 hrs late)...
Anyone else thinking what I’m thinking....?
here's a blunt claim...Why the **** didn't ya kill them?
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