More Agitprop
CNN is carrying this Associated Press report: U.S.: Smugglers nabbed in Iraq may have links to Iran
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S. troops on Sunday detained two suspected weapons smugglers who may be linked to Iran’s elite Quds force, the military said, as Washington presses allegations that Tehran is supporting violence in Iraq despite plans for new bilateral talks on the issue.
The suspects and a number of weapons were seized during a raid on a rural farm compound in eastern Iraq, near the Iranian border, according to a military statement.
“The suspects may be associated with a network of terrorists that have been smuggling explosively formed projectiles (EFPs), other weapons, personnel and money from Iran into Iraq,” the military said. EFPs are powerful, armor-piercing roadside bombs that have killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers in recent months.
When reduced to the facts you have two guys grabbed at a farm somewhere on the eastern side of Iraq and there was at least one weapon at the farm. That’s it. Everything else is garbage. The fact that every household in Iraq is permitted to have an AK-47 and a pistol because the US didn’t plan for security when it invaded, and you have to wonder why these two guys were detained.
This is all propaganda and the press should refuse to report it without making that clear. There were no EFPs found, there were no Iranians found, just two guys on a farm with one or more weapons which might have been swords and pikes for all we know.
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…it’s just like the local rural drug busts ’round these parts: “In addition, police found several handguns and high-powered rifles.” Everybody has handguns and high-powered rifles in rural American communities where hunting is a part of life. If I were to be arrested for first degree felony cynicism, the report would say exactly the same thing…
For a while when I was hand-loading, it would have included “explosives,” as I generally had a pound or less of smokeless powder in the gun safe as well as firing caps.