A while ago an Associated Press story appeared under the headline, Bush can't back up Iran claims, and then opened by quoting an emphatic George Bush who declared that there is no doubt the Iranian government is providing armor-piercing weapons to kill American soldiers in Iraq.
Yesterday, Power Line quoted a CNN report that explains why Bush spoke with such certainty when he accused Iran of involvement with the Iraqi insurgency.
CNN says that military authorities have confirmed that they are holding a top Quds general who was reported to have been apprehended in Iraq last December:
U.S. troops in Iraq are holding a top leader of an Iranian special forces group believed to be supplying weapons to insurgents who are targeting and killing U.S. forces in Iraq, U.S. officials said Monday.
Brig. Gen. Mohsen Chirazi, said to be the third-ranking officer in the Iranian Quds Force, was arrested in late December during a raid at the home of a man connected to the leader of the top Shiite party in Iraq with deep ties to the Iranian government, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, according to U.S. officials.
This, I suppose, is why President Bush has said that we know with certainty that Quds officers from Iran have been aiding the Iraqi insurgents.
Consider those Iran claims backed up.
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