Taliban fighters training in Iran, U.S. officials say

[Savwafair2012 Profile]

Gen. David Petraeus has said Iran was aiding the Taliban within Afghanistan but that its role was limited in scope

Washington (CNN) -- Iran is helping train Taliban fighters within its borders, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.

The United States has already said that the Taliban may be receiving limited training from the Iranians in Afghanistan, but the officials told CNN that training in the use of small arms was occurring within Iran.

"We've known for some time that Iran has been a source for both materiel and trained fighters for Taliban elements in Afghanistan," Army Lt. Col. Edward Sholtis said Monday. But, he said, it is unknown whether that training is occurring with the support of Tehran, or it is "simply something that is happening beyond the government's control."

"For some years, Iran has supplied arms and munitions to the Afghan Taliban," said a U.S. intelligence official. "It has also helped conduct at least small-scale weapons training for the Taliban. There's reason to believe that some of this training has occurred in Iran."

The officials who spoke with CNN did not say how many Taliban fighters have been trained in Iran, or whether the training was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Iranian government.

Iran, which has always denied supporting the Taliban, said the training allegations were false.

An Iranian official at the United Nations said these are "...absolutely baseless and wrong allegations, and strongly rejected by the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in the region, has said Iran was aiding the Taliban within Afghanistan but that its role was limited in scope.



Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who visited Afghanistan recently, agreed with Petraeus. "There is some [training], but it, to this point, I think, has been considered to be pretty low-level," he said.

A former CIA officer who did a strategic review of Afghanistan for the Obama administration last year said the Iranians have mastered improvised explosive devices -- makeshift bombs hidden along roads and in ditches.

"They've been doing this in Lebanon, Iraq, and other places for decades," said Bruce Reidel, now a senior fellow at the Saban Institute for Middle East Policy. "They're among the best in the world in this kind of knowledge. And they're trying to transmit some of that knowledge over to the Afghan Taliban."

The Sunday Times newspaper in London quoted two unidentified Taliban commanders as saying they had attended three-month courses in Iran. CNN could not confirm those details.

Predominantly Shiite Iran has been a longtime enemy of the Taliban, which is made up primarily of Sunni Muslims.

But Reidel said that Iran views the Taliban as a way to counter U.S. pressure on Tehran.

"As the U.S. squeezes Iran, Iran is looking for places to squeeze America back," he said. "And where better than Obama's war next door in Afghanistan?"

Despite the lack of love for Iran's ayatollahs, the Taliban, said Reidel, are seeking help wherever they can get it, especially with Pakistan's recent arrests of top Taliban militants and U.S. drone attacks on Taliban havens.

But Iranian assistance to the Taliban has the potential to provoke military confrontation, Reidel said. If Iran starts supplying sophisticated surface-to-air missiles to the Taliban, then U.S. and NATO command of Afghan airspace could change just as the balance changed when the United States provided Mujahedeen fighters with Stingers in their fight against the Soviets in the late 1980s.




http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/03/ ... tml?hpt=T2

[sockpuppet Profile]

Shias won't let Sunny fundamentalists train in their country. This is just a lie to beef up support for an invasion of Iran. Kinda like the crap we heard about Saddam Hussein letting Al-Qaeda in... Why in the hell would a nearly communist dictator support a fundamentalist religious group?

Think people, THINK!!!

[Cee420 Profile]

..only problem is that Taliban is CIA-ISI front ...CIA (US government) created the Taliban in the first place!!!! ...so exactly who is Al qaeda/Taliban working for, mate??


CIA and ISI together created Taliban, says Zardari
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cia-and-isi ... rdari.html

Mossad-Taliban whistleblower killed in Pakistan
A tribal leader who earlier defected from Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and revealed the militants group's ties with the US and Israel has been shot dead.
http://www.presstv.ir/classic/detail.as ... =351020401



Watch Congressman Jim McDermott on CNN Crossfire Sept. 10. 2002
Admit the US placed the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1996.

http://www.welfarestate.com/nwo/taliban.htm






Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser

According to this 1998 interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA's intervention in Afghanistan preceded the 1979 Soviet invasion. This decision of the Carter Administration in 1979 to intervene and destabilise Afghanistan is the root cause of Afghanistan's destruction as a nation.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html


"OSAMAGATE"
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset" during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way back".
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html

German Intelligence and the CIA supported
Al Qaeda sponsored Terrorists in Yugoslavia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BEH502A.html

U.S. supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/VIN204A.html

ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/200 ... xclus.html


CFR's The Three-State Solution
President Bush's new strategy of transferring power quickly to Iraqis, and his critics' alternatives, share a fundamental flaw: all commit the United States to a unified Iraq, artificially and fatefully made whole from three distinct ethnic and sectarian communities. That has been possible in the past only by the application of overwhelming and brutal force.

http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6559



and i got tons more ...now what is this constant bull whit that "jews did it"??? huh? ..US government has been crooked and working for London City ..since 1500's



CIA-MI6 ..agent provocateur, mate? ..of course not, they would not spam conspiracy sites..

[Zegtelzegtel Profile]

:bullshit:

Shias won't let Sunny fundamentalists train in their country. This is just a lie to beef up support for an invasion of Iran. Kinda like the crap we heard about Saddam Hussein letting Al-Qaeda in... Why in the hell would a nearly communist dictator support a fundamentalist religious group?

Think people, THINK!!!

Why in the hell would a nearly communist dictator support a fundamentalist religious group?

[Heinousone Profile]

..only problem is that Taliban is CIA-ISI front ...CIA (US government) created the Taliban in the first place!!!! ...so exactly who is Al qaeda/Taliban working for, mate??


CIA and ISI together created Taliban, says Zardari
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cia-and-isi ... rdari.html

Mossad-Taliban whistleblower killed in Pakistan
A tribal leader who earlier defected from Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and revealed the militants group's ties with the US and Israel has been shot dead.
http://www.presstv.ir/classic/detail.as ... =351020401



Watch Congressman Jim McDermott on CNN Crossfire Sept. 10. 2002
Admit the US placed the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1996.

http://www.welfarestate.com/nwo/taliban.htm






Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser

According to this 1998 interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA's intervention in Afghanistan preceded the 1979 Soviet invasion. This decision of the Carter Administration in 1979 to intervene and destabilise Afghanistan is the root cause of Afghanistan's destruction as a nation.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html


"OSAMAGATE"
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset" during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way back".
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html

German Intelligence and the CIA supported
Al Qaeda sponsored Terrorists in Yugoslavia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BEH502A.html

U.S. supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/VIN204A.html

ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/200 ... xclus.html


CFR's The Three-State Solution
President Bush's new strategy of transferring power quickly to Iraqis, and his critics' alternatives, share a fundamental flaw: all commit the United States to a unified Iraq, artificially and fatefully made whole from three distinct ethnic and sectarian communities. That has been possible in the past only by the application of overwhelming and brutal force.

http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6559



and i got tons more ...now what is this constant bull whit that "jews did it"??? huh? ..US government has been crooked and working for London City ..since 1500's



CIA-MI6 ..agent provocateur, mate? ..of course not, they would not spam conspiracy sites..

Talk about spamming conspiracy sites, you just spammed the exact same post here as you did in the thread about Alan Sabrosky. I would say you are more likely to be the agent provocateur spamming conspiracy sites at any perceived slight upon any Jew.

So what if I made a thread about Goldman Sachs, would you call me anti-semitic Mr Attack Dog?

Mossad-Taliban whistleblower killed in Pakistan
A tribal leader who earlier defected from Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and revealed the militants group's ties with the US and Israel has been shot dead.
http://www.presstv.ir/classic/detail.as ... =351020401

You even state this in your own post, linking directly Mossad into all this yet you attack anyone that might state the Israeli government is involved in shady stuff? Do you even bother to check what you post or were you simply handed it and told to spam it?

[Zegtelzegtel Profile]

No Iran would never support the taliban with weapons........