remember when blair told us iran was behind attacks...
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:34 pm
...on british soldiers in southern iraq, using bombs they provided via hezbollah? and how we all laughed at the chutzpah of this buffoon for thinking we'd fall for this "intelligence"-based crap twice?
surprise, surprise - it was bollocks:
btw, anyone know what happened with those british soldiers caught dressed as arabs with a car full of explosives they sprung from basra jail? that story seemed to die at birth...
surprise, surprise - it was bollocks:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/0601 ... nalism.phpMore recently, on January 5, the Independent reported a government "U-turn" over the claims:
"Britain has dropped the charge of Iranian involvement... Government officials now acknowledge that there is no evidence, or even reliable intelligence, connecting the Iranian government to the infra-red triggered bombs which have killed 10 British soldiers in the past eight months." (Kim Sengupta, Ben Russell, Terri Judd, 'Anger as Britain admits it was wrong to blame Iran for deaths in Iraq,' The Independent, January 5, 2006)
btw, anyone know what happened with those british soldiers caught dressed as arabs with a car full of explosives they sprung from basra jail? that story seemed to die at birth...