Wednesday, July 1, 2009

"Iran is still supporting, funding & training surrogates..They have not stopped & I don't think they will stop,"

"... Odierno directly implicated groups supported by Iran in recent rocket attacks against the walled-off Green Zone in central Baghdad."Those are being done by groups that have been trained in Iran, been funded by Iran," he said.
But, he said, the number of such attacks was "significantly smaller" due to security measures making them more difficult to carry out.
Speaking later to Pentagon reporters, Odierno said efforts by U.S. and Iraqi forces to go after Iran-supported militants, uncover weapons caches and control the flow of weapons across the border has made it much harder for Iran to maintain the explosives supply.
He also said intelligence has not detected any changes while Tehran has been gripped by huge street protests following charges of fraud in the June 12 presidential election. "They have kind of maintained themselves in a steady state as we've moved forward," he said."

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