General Cites Iranian Links to ‘Special Groups’ Terrorists in Iraq

So-called “special groups” terrorists operating in Iraq apparently are receiving training, arms and funding from Iranian sources, a senior U.S. military official posted in Iraq said today.

“Over the course of the last several months, we have publicly discussed numerous times, and shown numerous times, the evidence on four separate occasions on what we have found and continue to find: Iranian-made weapons in the hands of criminals in Iraq,” [snip]

“I think it has awakened them to the reality of the magnitude of Iranian meddling in Iraq,” Gates said. “And, so, we are being very aggressive in going after the networks in Iraq and the individuals who are interfering and are supplying weapons from Iran.”

[how many Americans does Iran have to kill before we employ the Bolton option?]

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