Monday, June 18, 2007

Iranian Weapons, Agents and Terrorists in Iraq

In Iraqi schoolyard. A schoolyard.
Coalition forces uncovered half a dozen Iranian-made rockets in a Baghdad schoolyard earlier this week, the U.S.-led military said on Monday.Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers and aviation assets discovered the six rockets in a schoolyard in the Iraqi capital’s Rashid District on June 17, the Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I) said in a statement.

In Kirkuk, an Iranian agent with Mookie al Sadr connections is detained.
Iraqi security forces have arrested an individual in the northern city of Kirkuk for facilitating the travel to and from Iran of insurgents belonging to the al-Mahdi Army, the armed militia of firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

And the Coalition has put the kibosh on 20 terrorists smuggling weapons from Iran...
“Coalition Forces killed at least 20 terrorists, wounded six suspected terrorists and detained one suspected terrorist during operations targeting Secret Cells operating in Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir”, said a statement by the Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I).

Hold up. Those aren't terrorists, says Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Hosseini. Heck no. They're undocumented pilgrims! I kid you not.