IRA bombs killed eight British soldiers in Iraq

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IRA bombs killed eight British soldiers in Iraq

Postby emad » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:06 pm

IRA bombs killed eight British soldiers in Iraq <br><br>Terror devices used by the IRA in a vicious murder campaign in Ulster blew up British servicemen as the world blamed Iran <br>By Greg Harkin, Francis Elliott and Raymond Whitaker <br>Published: 16 October 2005 <br><br><br>Eight British soldiers killed during ambushes in Iraq were the victims of a highly sophisticated bomb first used by the IRA, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. <br><br>The soldiers, who were targeted by insurgents as they travelled through the country, died after being attacked with bombs triggered by infra-red beams. The bombs were developed by the IRA using technology passed on by the security services in a botched "sting" operation more than a decade ago.<br><br>This contradicts the British government's claims that Iran's Revolutionary Guard is helping Shia insurgents to make the devices.<br><br>The Independent on Sunday can also reveal that the bombs and the firing devices used to kill the soldiers, as well as two private security guards, were initially created by the UK security services as part of a counter-terrorism strategy at the height of the troubles in the early 1990s.<br><br>According to security sources, the technology for the bombs used in the attacks, which were developed using technology from photographic flash units, was employed by the IRA some 15 years ago after Irish terrorists were given advice by British agents.<br><br>"We are seeing technology in Iraq today that it took the IRA 20 years to develop," said a military intelligence officer with experience in Northern Ireland.<br><br>He revealed that one trigger used in a recent Iraqi bombing was a three-way device, combining a command wire, a radio signal and an infra-red beam - a technique perfected by the IRA.<br><br>Britain claims that the bomb-making expertise now being used in southern Iraq was passed on by Iran's Revolutionary Guard through Hizbollah, the revolutionary Islamist group it sponsors in Lebanon.<br><br>But a former agent who infiltrated the IRA told The Independent on Sunday that the technology reached the Middle East through the IRA's co-operation with Palestinian groups. In turn, some of these groups used to be sponsored by Saddam Hussein and his Baath party.<br><br>The former agent added: "The photographic flashgun unit was replaced with infra-red and then coded infra-red, but basically they were variations of the same device. The technology came from the security forces, but the IRA always shared its equipment and expertise with Farc guerrillas in Colombia, the Basque separatists, ETA and Palestinian groups. There is no doubt in my mind that the technology used to kill our troops in Basra is the same British technology from a decade ago."<br><br>Even more alarming is the claim that the devices were supplied by the security services to an agent inside the Provisionals as part of a dangerous game of double bluff.<br><br>According to investigators examining past collusion between the security forces and paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, members of the shadowy army undercover outfit, the Force Research Unit, and officers from MI5 learned in the early 1990s that a senior IRA member in south Armagh was working to develop bombs triggered by light beams. They decided the risks would be diminished if they knew what technology was being used.<br><br>"The thinking of the security forces was that if they were intimate with the technology, then they could develop counter-measures, thereby staying one step ahead of the IRA," a senior source close to the inquiry explained. "It may seem absurd that the security services were supplying technology to the IRA, but the strategy was sound.<br><br>"Unfortunately, no one could see back then that this technology would be used to kill British soldiers thousands of miles away in a different war."<br><br>The Provisionals' agent was allowed to travel to New York andpurchase the equipment. But the strategy backfired in March 1992 when the technology triggered a bomb that killed a policewoman and mutilated her male colleague near Newry before counter-measures were in place.<br><br>* A dossier naming the alleged killers of the six Red Caps murdered by an Iraqi mob more than two years ago is being handed over to Iraqi judges this week. The six members of the Royal Military Police were butchered to death in June 2003 in an Iraqi police station after being attacked by about 300 tribesmen.<br><br>* Two mothers of British soldiers killed in Iraq are to stage a 24-hour "peace camp" opposite Downing Street on Tuesday. <br> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article320004.ece">news.independent.co.uk/uk...320004.ece</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=emad@rigorousintuition>emad</A> at: 10/16/05 10:08 am<br></i>
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Cheney admits IRAN & IRAQ spelling very similar to IRA:

Postby emad » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:11 pm

TheSpoof FIRST had this IRA story in June 2004!:<br><br>Cheney admits IRAN and IRAQ spelling very similar to IRA<br><br><br>Washington DC (Riotous) - Aides of Vice President Dick Cheney have issued a hasty statement on behalf of the beleagured ex-Halliburton CEO amid new CIA reports naming Iran as the transit point of Al Qaeda 9/11 operatives:<br><br>"Mr Cheney now admits he and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may have got the geography wrong in sending US troops to Iraq instead of Iran. The original intelligence came from the Colonel Oliver North Wing of the Pentagon and was unfortunately partly shredded through clerical error before it could be decoded properly. <br><br>"The words 'terrorists' and 'IRA' were clear on the communique from the UK's MI6 contacts at Mossad HQ in Las Vegas detailing the post-9/11 threat to the US.<br><br>"The Defense Department was pretty sure that the IRA - that is the Irish Liberation Army - could not be involved because UK Premier Tony Blair 's close aides Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell said so. The Vice President therefore advised that the missing letter after the "a" must be a "q" and not an "n" because Saddam was a bad boy with more oil than sense and with an election due later in 2004, American voters had a need to know that their gas tanks could be filled up at around $1 a gallon in the forseeable future."<br><br>Meanwhile Defense Department chiefs reacted with disbelief at the reports that the 101st Airborne Division might need to be sent to Iran to spearhead an advance party investigating relatives of the late Shah of Persia's relatives who are believed to be operating the country's first covert nuclear-powered smallpox microbe production factory, in conjunction with a sophisticated recycling center that has so far refurbished up to 500 Patriot missiles left over from Iraq overshoots during the US's 1990 liberation of Kuwait when Saddam's forces were successfully routed back to Baghdad.<br><br>"This may be a novel way of planning Sharia-law-approved mass immunization of neighbouring states, of course," said the spokesman, "but we have no definite data on the matter.<br><br>"Similar attempts at vaccinating whole nations were once tried during the cold war when the Soviet Union toyed with the idea of using rocket-fuel propelled giant syringes filled with live cholera serum to immunize large areas of Eastern Europe that lagged behind in modern health care. <br><br>"In the end an administrative decision was taken which showed that it would be a cheaper and far more health-effective option to simply send in tanks into the streets of Czechoslovakia.<br><br>"Naturally, we are studying such options."<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i5892">www.thespoof.com/news/spo...ne=s2i5892</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=emad@rigorousintuition>emad</A> at: 10/16/05 10:14 am<br></i>
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Sequel to TheSpoof? From today's Telegraph:

Postby emad » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:18 pm

Russians help Iran with missile threat to Europe<br>By Con Coughlin<br>(Filed: 16/10/2005)<br><br>Former members of the Russian military have been secretly helping Iran to acquire technology needed to produce missiles capable of striking European capitals.<br><br>The Russians are acting as go-betweens with North Korea as part of a multi-million pound deal they negotiated between Teheran and Pyongyang in 2003. It has enabled Teheran to receive regular clandestine shipments of top secret missile technology, believed to be channelled through Russia.<br><br>Western intelligence officials believe that the technology will enable Iran to complete development of a missile with a range of 2,200 miles, capable of hitting much of Europe. It is designed to carry a 1.2-ton payload, sufficient for a basic nuclear device.<br><br>The revelation raises the stakes in the confrontation between Iran's Islamic regime and the West - led by the United States and European countries including Britain.<br><br>Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, clashed with Russian officials over Iran's nuclear programme during a visit to Moscow yesterday, saying that Teheran must fulfil its obligations under the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.<br><br>She was later expected to urge President Vladimir Putin to back a referral of Iran to the United Nations Security Council.<br><br> <br> <br>A senior American official said Iran's programme was "sophisticated and getting larger and more accurate. They have had very much in mind the payload needed to carry a nuclear weapon.<br><br>"I think Putin knows what the Iranians are doing."<br><br>Iran is believed to be hiding its weapons development behind its nuclear power programme, for which it receives Russian support, and has refused to suspend uranium enrichment or to allow full UN inspections.<br><br>John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, told BBC2's Newsnight that Iran was "determined to get nuclear weapons deliverable on ballistic missiles it can then use to intimidate not only its own region but possibly to supply to terrorists".<br><br>Iran's longest-range missile is the Shahab 3, which, with an 800-mile range, could hit Israel. The North Korean deal will allow the Iranian missile to reach targets far into Europe - including Rome, Berlin, and much of France.<br><br>North Korea has developed a missile, the Taepo Dong 2, that could reach America's west coast, based on the submarine-launched Soviet SSN6. Modifications allow it to be fired from a land-based transporter and this technology is being smuggled to Teheran with Russian help.<br><br>Russians have provided production facilities, diagrams and operating instruction so the missile can be built in Iran. Liquid propellant has been shipped to Iran. Russian specialists have also been sent to Iran to help development of its Shahab 5 missile project, which the Iranians hope to have operational by the end of the decade.<br><br>9 October 2005: Iran puts radicals in charge of nuclear programme <br>14 August 2005: By breaking the seals at Isfahan, the Iranian president has deliberately set <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/16/wiran16.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/16/ixnewstop.html">www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...wstop.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Talk about a misleading headline...

Postby banned » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:01 pm

...I'm scratchin' my head wondering what the Irish Republic Army's peeved about in Mess-O-Potamia. Headline writing is a lost art along with the rest of journalism. It's not quite worth sending to Jay Leno, but close.<br><br>Is the Taepo Dong 2 missile the one that makes the enemies' penises fall off? (I hope I'm not confusing it with the Tae-bo Dong, which causes the enemy to repeat an exercise routine till they drop over from exhaustion, or the Taepo Bong which envelopes the target in weed smoke so everyone gets so mellowed out they can't fight.) <br><br>I hear the North Koreans are now working on a bomb that makes whatever it hits reek of Kimchi for the next geological epoch. <br><br>Dastardly Orientals! <p></p><i></i>
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