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| ShadoWolf |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mi...ast/4312516.stm
Iran 'behind attacks on British'
Britain has accused Iran of responsibility for explosions which have caused the deaths of all eight UK soldiers killed in Iraq this year.
A senior British official, briefing correspondents in London, blamed Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
He said they had provided technology to a Shia group in southern Iraq, although the Iranians had denied this, he added.
An Iranian spokesman denied the charge, insisted that Tehran was committed to ensuring a peaceful Iraq.
"From the very beginning, we have stated our position very clearly - a stable Iraq is in our interests and that is what the Iraqi authorities have said themselves on many occasions," Hamid Reza-Asefi told the BBC.
"Even in recent days, the Iraqi authorities have welcomed our position and our approach to Iraq."
Allegations
While UK officials have hinted at an Iranian link before, this is the first specific allegation to be made.
They may feel there is little to lose right now by making such accusations, given that diplomatic relations are already low following the breakdown of talks over Iran's nuclear programme, says the BBC News Website's world affairs correspondent, Paul Reynolds.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the technology had come from Hezbollah in Lebanon via Iran and produced an "explosively shaped projectile".
He said that dissidents from the Mehdi army, a militia controlled by the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, were suspected of carrying out the attacks.
One of their leaders, Ahmed al-Fartusi, was arrested by British forces recently and was "currently enjoying British hospitality", as the official put it.
It was that arrest which sparked off an anti-British protest in Basra recently.
Saddam trial postponed?
The official said that protests had been made to Iran and that the Iranian government had denied responsibility.
Asked about an Iranian motive, the official said that it could be that Iran felt that it had to show that it could not be "pushed around".
The official also said that the trial of Saddam Hussein, due to start on 19 October, might be postponed until after the elections in December.
Logistical arrangements for the trial, including a witness protection programme and even whether bullet proof glass was to be used around the dock, had still not been decided, he said. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| blah blah blah Iran this Iran that.Go pick on another country.oh I know how about US of A,they are the ones waging wars not Iran.:) |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
blah blah blah Iran this Iran that.Go pick on another country.oh I know how about US of A,they are the ones waging wars not Iran.:) |
Don't with the Fourth Reich!!!
, did I actually say that? What horror!
:eek: :nervous: :eek: :nervous: :eek: |
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| kush paintings |
| You two really need to go blow each other. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by kush paintings
You two really need to go blow each other. |
I can't believe you said that. You're generally pretty civil/cultured/polite. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
I can't believe you said that. You're generally pretty civil/cultured/polite. |
He generally puts up a nice facade. |
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| metalgearsolid |
| You guys are all idiots:eek: |
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| josh4 |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
You guys are all idiots:eek: |
am i an idiot? |
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| St_Andrew |
hmmm, according to them it actually came from Hezbollah? Iran might not have been aware of it? If that is even true. Anyway, I don't trust any intelligence nowadays so I would not say wheather this is true or not...
But yeah, let's attack Iran and Syria too, just what the world would need now :rolleyes: |
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| h0tsweetbabyd0l |
| saw that on euronews this morning yeah that's crazy ....hope they won't do a war against iran now |
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| kush paintings |
| When someone says don't with the Fourth Reich, civility and reason go out the window. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by kush paintings
When someone says don't with the Fourth Reich, civility and reason go out the window. |
In other words, you're unable to maintain your composure when someone makes a distressingly blithe analogy, despite the fact that it was meant to be bitterly sarcastic in the first place.
As a former Nazi once said, "We never lost the war, we just changed venues."
On a side note, I'm shocked that I didn't know until just now that Allen Dulles was buried only about 20 miles from my house. I might have to make a trip down there one day so I can piss on his grave.
I strongly believe that he played a part of the Nazi war movement, with his chicanery in managing shares of the Silesian-American Corporation |
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