Unnamed personnel perhaps from the Pentagon yesterday revealed to selected journalists in Iraq top-secret evidence linking the Iranian government to explosive devices used in Iraq which they say have killed 170 American soldiers.
Although the Pentagon would not say which American soldiers had been killed by the Iranian-supplied IEDs, and although none of the perhaps Pentagon staff members would give their names or ranks, or their relationship to the Pentagon, and although no cameras or recording devices of any kind were allowed in the briefing room when the evidence was being presented, some people say that the evidence linking the Iranian government to the probable IEDs is rock-solid.
And now, in a journalistic coup, copies have been obtained of some of the exhibits presented yesterday to journalists in that highly controlled briefing.
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Many of the exhibits give incontrovertible proof of Iran's involvement in the manufacture and distribution of weapons used against American troops in Iraq.
The Iranians also have developed a sophisticated air-to-surface IED delivery system which, although not yet fully operational, could prove devastating against American troops if it is deployed:
Briefers also displayed a transcript of a highly incriminating conversation intercepted by electronic intelligence assets:
Col: Hello
Capt: Hello.
Col: Hello
Capt: May I help you sir?
Col: Who is this?
Capt: Captain Ibrahim, Sir.
Col: Captain Ibrahim how are you?
Capt: God bless you sir.
Col: How is your health?
Capt: May God preserve you.
Col: How are you?
Capt: Good praise God sir.
Col: Captain Ibrahim.
Capt. Yes sir.
Col: Write this down.
Capt: Yes, Sir. [Pause]
Capt: Hello?
Col: Hello?
Capt: Go ahead, Sir.
Col: Hello, Ibrahim?
Capt: Yes, sir?
Col: Captain Ibrahim?
Capt: I am with you, Sir.
Col: Remove.
Capt: Remove. [Repeats instructions.]
Col: The Expression.
Capt: The Expression.
Col: Nerve Agents. IEDs.
Capt: Nerve Agents. IEDs.
Col: Wherever it comes up.
Capt: Wherever it comes up.
Col: In the wireless instructions.
Capt: In the instructions.
Col: Wireless.
Capt: Wireless.
Col: Okay, Buddy.
Capt: [Consider it] done, sir.
What is not widely known is that the briefing also laid out the case detailing Iran's nuclear weapons program, including photos of nuclear missile sites and special equipment used exclusively for manufacturing weapons-grade plutonium.
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Iran also has the ability to deliver its many nuclear warheads to the United States, as evidenced by this photo showing missile launch sites:
And, according to the briefer, British intelligence has learned that Iran tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger, as proven by this document:
One of the briefers, who asked to be called, "Dan," showed the following photo, clearly linking Iran to al-Qaeda:
Briefers said the meticulously analyzed and overwhelmingly amassed evidence amounted to a "slam dunk" case against the Iranian government, which they said poses an imminent threat to the national security of the United States and its way of life.
No patriotic, troop-loving American could possibly disagree.