Gates: U.S. Has Evidence That Iran's Helping Insurgents in Iraq

Friday, February 09, 2007

SEVILLE, Spain — Serial numbers and other markings on bombs suggest that Iranians are linked to deadly explosives used by Iraqi militants, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday in some of the administration's first public assertions on evidence the military has collected.While the Bush administration and military officials have repeatedly said Iranians have been tied to terrorist bombings in Iraq, they have said little about evidence to bolster such claims, including any documents and other items collected in recent raids in Iraq.Speaking with reporters in Seville, Spain, on Friday before traveling to Munich, Gates told reporters that markings on explosives provide "pretty good" evidence that Iranians are supplying either weapons or technology for Iraqi extremists."I think there's some serial numbers, there may be some markings on some of the projectile fragments that we found" that point to Iran, he said.Gates' remarks left unclear how the U.S. knows the serial numbers are traceable to Iran and whether such weapons would have been sent to Iraq by the Iranian government or by private arms dealers.

This is an aside from me:

Iran shares borders with the following countries: Iraq, Pakistan; Afghanistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan

Is it likely that arms and munnitions would cross borders here. I am also unsure whether to give credence to these reports when I hear words like this:

"pretty good" evidence, and ."I think" when talking about something of this magnitude. When it comes to Gates, I am hard-pressed to believe anything he says. I am compelled to call this propaganda to get us used to hearing this type of thing so that it will make sense when Bush finally gives the go ahead to attack Iran-what's your take on this?

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