so, Iran is supplying sophosticated weapons to Afghanistan....and the US do not fly F-18's and F15's and laser-guided missiles...!

Be real please!

Please don't become part of the new neo con push for a new war in Iran. Check and double check your sources. We had far too much of the media serving as the mouthpiece for this administration leading up to the Iraq war. We don't need another media encouraged disaster.

Here's a fact to consider: the Iranian government is Shi'a. The Taliban are Sunni - hard core Sunnis. These people do not have a common cause. They have been at odds with each other since the 7th century.

Please check your sources!!

max2424 don't be silly. If the Iranians would use their sophisicated weapons against the US in the open battlefield...they would be destroyed. It's tough to fight an enemy that won't declare war against you. The Iranian's lie and then fund terrorists and they know that until we have hard evidence against them...there is not much we can do to retaliate. That is why they are so sneeky.

Doesnt anyone remember that we supplied Iraq during its war with Iran? That when we went back we left a lot of explosives ungarded after we found them. "We have seen the enemy and they is us".

Remember the saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

As soon as I see this reported by a reputable source that is not a member of the United States corporate media, I'll start believing it. ABC News, like the rest of the American media, helped the Bush Administration lie us into the quagmire in Iraq. The RAND Corporation, who they quote so freely, is run by people who stand to make BILLIONS off of the next war that we are lied into. Let me hear this from someone who doesn't stand to make a profit off of the next military misadventure.

The way this story is written, it gives absolute authority to the analysis of one senior coalition official. (unnamed!)

His analysis may be dead on, but to present one unknown official's opinion as absolute truth without providing the evidence behind his analysis is deceptive reporting.

I find it perfectly plausible that the Iranian government may be behind these shipments, (it also could be someone at a lower level or smugglers,) but to write this story in the somewhat sensationalist way you did offers alot more weight (without evidence) than this report should receive.

If the report has evidence that the Iranian government is behind it, then, sure, make that headline, but hiding behind "Report says" and analysis of unnamed official without evidence should no longer be acceptable reporting in this country.

Not after similar reporting contributed to the war in Iraq.

Read the article three or four times. You will see that both sources are SPECULATING that the Iranian government is inolved. COMPLETELY SPECULATING. So why does ABCNEWS say Iran was caught 'red handed'? Why is this disinformation being used on the American public? For what purpose are we being lied to? Why are the powers that be trying so hard to get another diastrous war started?

So.... the secret is out huh?I guess the small army that we "indirectly" fund against Iran isn't a big problem huh?
Lets look at history....

We supplied the afgans during the Afgan-Russia war. Now they are using that weapons against us.
We helped the Iraqis during the Iraq Iran war. Now they are using that weapons against us.
We supplied funds to overthrough governments. Now those people and govt. are against us.
So on and so on.... Tell me who is spreading terrorism... us or them?

I guess this is what our elders mean when they say "Your digging your own Ditch" Hmmmm...

Mr. Hubers,

Even your own US government (whose current policies you seem to have contempt for) has made deals with devils to protect more pressing politcal priorities and goals. "The enemy of my enemy is also my friend."

Have you ever pointed out to anyone that the United States in the past provided assistance to Bin Laden and Saddam? If so, then you are well aware of such tactics and are likely too wrapped up in your own political viewpoint to consider the story on the merits of the facts which have been cited.

"Please check your souces!!"?

Alas, if only you had posted your sage advice to Dan Rather before it was too late.

It's cute that you think it matters.

Also, if you know anything about Mr. Richard Clarke, you'll know he is no fan of the current administration or it's foreign policies.

If you don't think Iran is supplying anything to anyone that opposes the US, you live in a dream world. Get real.

This message board is evidence of the chit chat that will occur among liberals after Iran supplies terrorists with a nuclear weapon that goes off in a U.S. port city.

"We really don't know who's to blame" the liberals will whine.

"After all, we brought it on ourselves because we are so unkind to other people in the world" the liberals will add.

It's time to use some bunker busters on Iranian nuclear sites. We need to slow down this bunch of renegades.

Here's what it's come to:

The conservatives see a liberal media, and the bias that comes with it, and the liberals see a 'corporate media' and think they're in league with the Bush Administration.

Meanwhile - what's the truth? Let me ask all of you this: Do you honestly think that Iran's government isn't doing this? This has been Iran's behavior since 1979. When haven't they been supplying arms to someone? This hasn't changed whether the administration has been Republican or Democrat.

At what point is taking on Iran the right thing to do instead of liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat?

How many more have to die - do we wait until Iran takes out Israel w/a nuke?

To the utopians and Bush-haters who believe Iran is not a threat and not supplying arms; please, WAKE UP! Hating Bush is one thing, but closing your eyes is another.

Iran won't supply to the Taliban because they are Shiite and the Taliban are Sunni? Iran is supplying the Sunni resistance in Iraq too! Why? Simple - the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Once we are gone, they can control the Taliban who wouldn't be worth spit if not for their help. They want to be the super-power in the Mid-East and the world and they'll do anything to accomplish it.

They didn't do anything to us so why should we bother them? Germany and Italy didn't do anything to us either. Nor did Bosnia. Didn't stop us then. The truth is we must stop them before they become too entrenched and then decide to attack Israel and steal the oil of Iraq and other Gulf states. Think oil is expensive now? How about $200 a barrel meaning $10 a gallon!?

WAKE UP! We must draw a LITERAL line in the sand!

"Red-handed" in Babylon,
or, "China Bats Last"

Is "the U.S.", the world's biggest arms dealer, also determined to be the planet's ONLY source for implements of self-defense?
How it looks to me, remembering all the blabla about U.S. "daisycutters" and bunker-busters, and shock and awe, is that anything the Afghanis can get hold of to throw back at "the U.S." is just A-OK.

It's not a crime to fight back against Cheney-Bush. On the contrary: it's starting to look kind of heroic.

Something tells me the next target of neo-con weapons-wrath will be ... Russia.

just look at the iranian presidents comments about israel. "wiped-off the map" "its destruction is nearing".

these are not comments of a nation seeking nuclear energy, but nuclear bombs!

Bush its time to go in n start the bombing! THE WHOLE USA is behind you.

THESE PEOPLE, even though they don't have a common relgious cause (sunni/shiit3), they have a very COMMON cause - to wipe out the USA and the WEST

If not from Iran, Syria, or North Korea, where else could this be coming from?

Mordor?

Only complete morons could so flippantly dismiss the Iranian threat.

(Not the people of Iran but the regime in power there)

Time for some JDAAMS in Iran?

It amazes me how quick people are to bash the current administration and cry fowl on the war. You clowns just don't get the fact that these people want all of us DEAD. They hate our way of life, they hate our democracy, they hate our religious beliefs. Don't ever forget the fact that these radical muslim regimes that you so defend, would not think one second about cutting your throat...........and the throat's of all in your family.

This story is about as true as all the other stories that have reported the success of the US military within Iraq since Sadam was removed from power. You liberals are funny. You have to deny any evidence that suggests otherwise.

Besides, the US should have already taken out the Iranian leadership. As someone who has lived in Iran for the last 3 years, the new neo con's in Iran want it anyway.