Iran training Iraqis: US Intel Chief
By kathy on Feb 27, 2007 in Iran, Iraq, Military, War on Terror
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that it is “probable” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei knew of Iranian weapons supplied to Iraqi Shi’ites and that Iraqis are being trained outside of Iraq in Iran and Lebanon on armor-piercing munitions.
Iran is training anti-American Iraqi Shi’ites at sites inside Iran and Lebanon in the use of armor-piercing munitions blamed for the deaths of 170 U.S. troops in Iraq, the top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, newly installed U.S. intelligence chief Mike McConnell said it was “probable” that Iranian leaders including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were aware that weapons known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, had been supplied to Iraqi Shi’ites.
[...]Under questioning by Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent, McConnell tersely acknowledged that the United States has evidence showing that Iran is training Iraqi Shi’ites to use EFPs at sites outside Iraq.
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