A decade ago, American and NATO forces in the Balkans working to broker lasting peace in that part of the world started coming across weapons whose model, design, markings, or age precluded their having come from regional military stock. From brand-new assault rifles, to the latest model of RPG to rocket launchers and everything between, new weapons were showing up in the hands of the various parties involved in the conflicts, despite embargos and similar restrictions.
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Mike, over at What Really Happened, in a breathless little bit of outrage, proclaims “The Iranian 81mm mortar page is a fake!”. His proof? Apparently incorrect WHOIS data, typographic errors (in English), and the IP address belonging to an Iranian college. Never mind it’s a government-run college with some very shady programs; that’s good enough for him to discount it as fake… and for Kurt Nimmo to retract his retraction.
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This, I feverently hoped, would be the final word I wrote on the “evidence” that’s been produced by the U.S. government, supposedly demonstrating Iran’s complicity in attacks on coalition forces in Iraq. Alas, I then had to point out that What Really Happened is wrong, again when they assert the Iranian website at the heart of the 81mm mortar flap is a forgery. Oh, well…
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