On The Third Hand

Jack Kelly: Iran around

Who is behind the Iraq insurgency?
Much more is happening in Iraq right now than most of us realize. The peril is greater than most of us imagine. Things are likely to get very much better – or very much worse – very soon.
Iran and Syria have committed acts of war against the United States, even if their aggression isn’t acknowledged by the Bush administration, or noticed by news media.
Ralph Peters, a retired military intelligence officer, reported from northern Iraq that on April 10, Iranian agents ambushed an American convoy on the road between Mosul and Akre. “The attack did not go as planned,” Peters noted in his April 12 New York Post column. “Our troops responded sharply, killing two Iranians, wounding a third and capturing two more. They were carrying their identity documents.”
The revolt by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr was largely financed by Iran. An Iranian defector told the London-based Arabic daily al Sharq al-Awsat that Iran has been spending $70 million a month on activities in Iraq, and has set up three training camps just across the border from Iraq for members of al Sadr’s militia, the “Mehdi Army.”

He says the media isn’t noticing. I think they are noticing, they just don’t want to publicize it. They are afraid we (the people) might want to do something about it. (Also, just FYI, Jack Kelly is not the Jack Kelley who has been faking stories.)