From: Ad 

Adam > wrote:
> John Cuccia wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:40:37 +0000, Ad
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>>> So why come out with transparently false figures (or
try gluing 2 sets
>>>>> of true information together via a completely fictitious link) ?
>>>> Because it worked in the runup to the Iraqi invasion?
>>>>
>>> That's why I was so surprised. Everyone watches US "facts
& figures"
>>> like a hawk nowadays.
>> Maybe they aren't as smart as you think they are.
>>
>
> Some are hence my surprise.
>

It seems the Mil were possibly a bit surprised...

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19546

"US general: no evidence Iran arming Iraq fighters


Peter Pace says discovery of Iranian-made in Iraq does not indicate Tehran
had been arming insurgents.


JAKARTA - Top US General Peter Pace said on Tuesday the discovery of
Iranian-made bombs and arrest of Iranians in Iraq did not indicate Tehran
had been arming insurgents fighting coalition forces, contradicting claims
by the US government.

"That does not translate to that the Iranian government per se, for
sure, is directly involved in doing this," Pace, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

“What it does say is that things that are made in Iran are being used in
Iraq to kill coalition soldiers”, he said. "


Indeed. Arms dealers have all sorts of stocks from all sorts of places
& can if need be be asked to make a situation look in a certain way.

Adam

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