In Iraq, the Iraqis nabbed a suspect from an Iranian-backed militia:
Maj. Gen. Adil Daham, chief of the Basra provincial police, said the militiaman confessed early Saturday to the attack on a U.S. base near the airport. The soldiers were killed Thursday night in a rocket attack, the U.S. military said, in a rare assault on troops in the comparatively quite south.
These are the three soldiers the Iranians killed this time.
And in Lebanon, the Iranians and their lap dogs the Syrians prepare for another assault on Israel's cities:
A senior Israeli officer told reporters the warehouse that blew up on Tuesday in southern Lebanon contained active, short-range rockets that were smuggled from Syria. The Israeli military, he said, had aerial pictures of the site after the explosion.
"The walls of the building were crushed and there are also many holes in the roof of the building," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity under military regulations. "We believe that this is one of dozens of ammunition storage (depots) in southern Lebanon that were built by Hezbollah." This particular depot is part of "the buildup of the Hezbollah force" in Lebanon, he added.
And then there's this small matter:
Iran is blocking U.N. nuclear agency attempts to upgrade monitoring of its atomic program while advancing those activities to the stage that the country would have the means to test a weapon within six months, diplomats told The Associated Press Friday.
The diplomats emphasized that there were no indications of plans for such a nuclear test, saying it was highly unlikely Iran would risk heightened confrontation with the West — and chances of Israeli attack — by embarking on such a course.
Huh, I thought the generic answer to Iran's progress has been 5-10 years (hasn't that estimate been out there for at least 6 years now?). I mean, when our press isn't blindly insisting that our National Intelligence Estimates say Iran has halted their nuclear weapons programs.
Just when does that Cairo speech's effects kick in over in Tehran?
Or maybe we could accept the bloody obvious that Iran's mullahs are our enemies and they want nuclear weapons to be a more effective enemy.
