After you read those Times and Post articles about the DOD briefing in Baghdad about Iranian supplied IEDs killing US troops, read Juan Cole’s explanation of why the story is bunk. Cole isn’t saying that there can’t be any arms transfers, though he clearly has his doubts. But the numbers just don’t add up. Because the Iranians would be giving them to Shi’a militias and our soldiers who are getting killed by IEDs are still being killed overwhelmingly by Sunni insurgents. See the details.
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