{"id":14248,"date":"2009-09-09T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14248"},"modified":"2009-09-09T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T22:51:14","slug":"iranian-fingerprints-on-weapons-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14248","title":{"rendered":"Iranian fingerprints on weapons in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,548622,00.html\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting that Defense Department officials have told them that they&#8217;ve found a weapons cache chocked full of Iranian-made weapons;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afghan and NATO forces uncovered the weapons cache on Aug. 29 in Herat. It included a small number of Iranian-made &#8220;explosively formed penetrators,&#8221; hyper-powerful roadside bombs similar to the weapons used to kill U.S. forces in Iraq, a senior U.S. Defense Official told FOX News.<\/p>\n<p>Also seized during the raid were 107 Iranian-made BM-1 rockets and dozens of blocks of Iranian C4 plastic explosives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not shocking news, of course, but at least there&#8217;s a bit of proof. Not that proof would effect anything like policy under this particular administration. It still makes overtures to Iran politically awkward. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Emerging_Threats\/2009\/09\/04\/Hezbollah-mum-on-chemical-weapons-charge\/UPI-84811252095578\/\">Kuwaiti sources say<\/a> that Iran has also supplied Hezbollah with chemical weapons and protective masks. The United Arab Emirates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/world\/ap\/56666672.html\">intercepted a weapon shipment<\/a> from North Korea to Iran earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Geez, I hate to say it but i think I detect an axis of evil or something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter can get it all straightened out though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that Defense Department officials have told them that they&#8217;ve found a weapons &hellip; <a title=\"Iranian fingerprints on weapons in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14248\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iranian fingerprints on weapons in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}