Friday, August 05, 2005

Iran is unlikely source of bombs for insurgents.

So some high-ranking American official leaked to Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News that the Iranians were a source of high powered explosives for the Sunni Iraqi insurgents.

Juan Cole rather clearly debunks it, exposing the story as extremely unlikely and probably either an effort by the administration to prepare the way for war with Iran or as a trial balloon of some kind.

Along the way Juan Cole also provides a brief but very interesting who's who of interested parties in the Iraqi theater of war.

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