Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Iraq - the problem is Iran
This is quite an informative interview...
The is from the tramscript of Hugh Hewitt's interview with Major General Rick Lynch:
"HH: Now as part of your ongoing operations, General, do you debrief those, interrogate those people with an eye towards establishing where they’re training in Iran, or how they’re receiving this assistance?
RL: Oh, exactly. You see, what we’re trying to do, Hugh, is to trace the rat line back where it came from. See, I’ve lost 147 soldiers under my command since I’ve been here in the last fourteen months. Many of those soldiers were killed by explosive foreign penetrators that are all traced back to Iran, or by Iranian rockets. So what we do, in everything that we do, for example, we found so many weapons caches over the course of the last month, and in those weapons caches we found Iranian rockets and Iranian mines. So we’ve got detailed biometrics. We check for fingerprints, and we traced those back to where they started. We’re following the money back to Iran, we’re following the munitions back to Iran, and then looking for those people that are trained in Iran as well. So it’s a major piece of our operations, to block that Iranian influence."
