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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (242561)	9/21/2007 8:37:04 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

To Nadine nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before her eyes, pushed under her nose, rammed down her throat - she knows it not.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (242561)	9/21/2007 3:28:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

say, rat, Admiral Fallon (whom I will cheerfully admit doesn't like General Petraeus, since this is supposed to be some kind of pivotal fact I am refusing to see, as if Fallon's dislike disproved everthing Petraeus said), also says that Iran is aiding the insurgents, this time in Afghanistan: Fallon: Iran Is Active In Afghanistan September 21st, 2007 Posted By Pat Dollard. Today the top U.S. commander for the Middle East accused Iran of supplying roadside bomb components to militants to get American soldiers "out of the region." Adm. William J. Fallon said Iran is providing development assistance in western Afghanistan, which he labeled helpful. But he said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is also supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as "explosively formed penetrators"—accusations the U.S. has made repeatedly in Iraq as well. "The Iranians are clearly supplying some amount of lethal aid," Fallon told The Associated Press. "There is no doubt …. that agents from Iran are involved in aiding the insurgency." Iran has denied that it is supplying arms to fighters in Afghanistan. Fallon said Iran is trying to ensure that it has a role in the region's politics. "And I think they put a priority on causing us as much frustration as they can," he said. "I think it's all aimed at embarrassing us and one of their long-standing aims is getting us out of the region." NATO's International Security Assistance Force has said that three shipments of weapons emanating from Iran have been intercepted in Afghanistan since the spring. The latest was intercepted in the western province of Farah on Sept. 6. Fallon said the U.S. was carefully watching the flow of weapons from Iran, and that border interdiction efforts may need to be increased. NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, told The Washington Post in a story published Friday that the Sept. 6 shipment likely was sent into the country with the knowledge of Iran's Republican Guard and possibly the Quds Force, the country's elite covert military arm. patdollard.com;