Armed men crossed into Afghanistan from Iran: Police

PAK TRIBUNE ^ | 20 Jun 07 | Unknown

[cripplecreek]

Drudge has a story about Iranian military crossing into Iraq.

[Dog]

Its going to be a long summer..

[BigFinn]

They have borders like ours...

[elhombrelibre]

That story has been posted here, and it's why I did a search and found this one. This story is a few days old, but it shows a pattern, I'd say.

Iranian Forces Crossed Border: Report

[elhombrelibre]

Yeah, no difference.

[The_Reader_David]

Perhaps we can get Afghanistan and Iraq to both declare war on Iran if we promise a really big air campaign and some Special Ops forces to help in the effort.

[SevenMinusOne]

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.

The notion that Mujahideen (or Pasthun Taliban for that matter) need any "training" from Iranians in how to fight in Stan....it completely absurd.

Though weapons......They'll always take those....

[wideminded]

Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report

[elhombrelibre]

You know it may come to that.

[LtKerst]

Lets get our big guns down there to the south and blow the living crap out of these Islamo-Facists.
and wipe out their Gas Refinery now! and drop a few on the Capital Govt offices for good measure. then sink every ship they have in the river.
lets get going!!

[Marine_Uncle]

Between this and the crossings into the Iraqi British sector, who knows. Maybe their brazen allowance to support al Qaeda and the Talaban has reached the point where they don't care who sees what.
Of course the Iranian official position is they know nothing about it. Perhaps we shall start reading about how our Marine,Navy, and Airforce aviators and pilots are making full use of their FLIR PODS and laser guided bombs soon, in wiping out cars and truck convoys proceeding out of Iran.

[elhombrelibre]

I don’t know about that. You may know this already, but the Afghans Mujahideen did not use IEDs, especially of likes Iran is providing. This type of warfare was really perfected by Hizbollah in Lebanon and used by the Chechens more recently. I do think the Afghan Mujahideens could learn from the Iranians, for example, how to operate sophisticated Chinese made SAMs of the MANPAD type.

[Blue Highway]

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.

Shouldn't he have a more certain understanding, he's the man in charge on the ground there. He did get the one part right, about them causing trouble for US troops.

[elhombrelibre]

The push by Hamas in Gaza, an Iranian-supported move, the arms they’re buying from Russia for Syria, and the support for terrorists, al Qaeda and Shia militias, in Iraq and Hezbollah in Lebanon may have convinced them they can get away with whatever they’d like to do. And, after all, with Nancy and Harry Reid telling them they’re winning, they probably don’t feel there is much risk of repercussions.

[elhombrelibre]

The fact is we’ll never probably know their motives unless we open their archives.

[RDTF]

and the plot thickens

[Keflavik76]

You have to wonder what it will take for the US Military to respond to Iranian provocation? Has the current polical climate in the United States forced President Bush to stand emasculated before Iranian escalation? Does President Bush really believe that the last election mandated surrender and weakness in the face of aggression?

[glock rocks]

They have borders like ours...

They're just doing the job the local terrorists won't do...

[glock rocks]

The only way we’ll know for sure is when Chavez’ squads show up in Houston or Denver.