Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?


	Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?

arifsali

5-22-2008 3:39 PM

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When Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner was asked that question at a briefing May 8, he did not answer it directly. Instead Bergner reverted to a standard U.S. military line that these groups "could not do what they're doing without the support of foreign support [sic]."  Then he defined "foreign support" to include training and funding as well as weapons, implicitly conceding that he did not have much of a case based on weapons alone.
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