Iran Paying Taliban for Dead US Soldiers

I didn't notice it, but people usually do that when they think I post something stupid.,

Umm, ever heard the word "proxy"?

The Iranians have no qualms about supporting the Sunni Hamas now do they?

They refused to comment to deny it, you'd think if they were "shocked, shocked" to hear such a thing they'd be denying it to high heaven.

They have for years been arming the Taliban, now we find out they are paying the Taliban wages, even giving them bonuses for killing our soldiers!

This is an act of aggression! The Taliban are the sworn enemies of freedom and human rights, yet the Taliban is arming them?

Enough is enough!

This isn't neo con propaganda, this is real. They are paying for the deaths of our soldiers, we must not look the other way.

Is reporting the news now considered warmongering?

Reporting the news no, but then real news has proof to back up its claims. This, however, is propaganda in the extreme and yes you are defiantly a warmonger and I will not allow to take my blood or the blood of my family for your warmongering. Understand?

actually this article is a lack of truth and bad research.

There's a slight difference....

The slight difference is in the minds of MOST Americans it is ok if we hire Hessian Mercenaries to do our dirty work, but not for the other guys to do it.

I've been in Afghanistan for almost a year and never once have seen a 3rd party "mercenary". Only U.S. security contractors who are made up of mostly ex special forces.

That's unfair analogy. Is Blackwater being paid to kill Iranian soldiers?

Killing Taliban is not relevant to Iran, Taliban are not Iranian.

The Iranians are supporting them as a proxy.

Just to be clear, I do not support blackwater/xe or the other security contractor firms, I think they are pretty much ruffians who play by their own rules and are accountable to no one.

Not to mention they are over paid compared to soldiers, implicated in war crimes and have defrauded us and the Iraqi's, and they are entirely unprofessional. They also have hired foreign soldiers under false pretense, there is one case where the promised ex Columbian soldiers great salary, but once they got to Iraq the company screwed the Columbian's over.

Blackwater and security contractors in general suck D*ck.

I heard that they are actually hiring a lot of ex foreign troops now, promising them great pay, then screwing them over. I also heard of an incident where American soldiers got T boned by careless blackwater thugs, and then proceeded to disarm the american soldiers and forced them to lie on the pavement at gunpoint while they disentanged their vehicle.

I have great respect for the troops, but these God D*mned F*cking mercs tick me off no end. Killing for money is just disgusting.

If it could be so easily disproven why didn't the Iranians deny it, instead their embassy in Afghanistan refused to comment!

Like we have a choice to send troops or not. War is hell but I wont get a over a contracted hit on US soldiers. I supposed your solution to world problems is to bury our head in the sand?

We aren't at war with Iran... they have no right to pay to kill our soldiers for fighting the Taliban. They said they would not interfere in our war against Al Qaeda who killed 3,000 American civilians in cold blood, they are now proven to be lying through their teeth.

If we were paying bounties on Iranian soldiers you might have a case, but we are not in Iran! We are not fighting Iran and this is an act of aggression.

Really, you don't think there is any economic motive involved?

http://www.topnews.in/70-percent-taliban-fighting-only-money-afghanistan-biden-2...

Afghanistan is DIRT poor, what the Iranian regime is paying through these shell companies amounts to very, VERY good money in Afghanistan.

You know what the average income in Afghanistan is? Do you have any freaking idea?

$426 a year, that is the average income of an Afghan worker.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LA29Df04.html

If the Iranians are paying Taliban $233 a month through these shell companies, even if they never get the $1000 dollar bounty they still earn 7 times as much in a year as the average Afghan.

Not about money, yeah right!

As for the "not proved" part, I think it will be, if it wasn't true, why did the Iranians not just flatly denied it, instead they adamantly refused to comment on it.

Don'tcha mean

MEET GRINDAH

War with Iran...ugh I cringe at the thought, but it almost seems inevitable.

Don't forget about the drug war in Mexico

Hezbollah Joining Mexican Drug Cartels

http://current.com/news/92512955_hezbollah-joining-mexican-drug-cartels.htm

No. We are the ones pushing for war with Iran with media bullshit stories like this one designed to insight warmongers. But to comprehend that, you actually would need an education. In America war comes first, education last.

You do know China and Russia have done joint war games with Iran, don't you? I don't think they will sit idly by, like they did with Iraq. They both have business interests with Iran. "Joint war games"!

Are the 'armchair warriors' in America going to go fight this time? Or, do they think they will get a new 'war game' using American sons and daughters as pawns to prove something?

What did George W. really accomplish starting 'Shock and Awe' on Iraq? The 'military industrial complex' made large profits. Foreign companies have signed oil contracts in Iraq, now that Saddam has been removed. What will be accomplished if we participate in a war with Iran? Chest thumping by some 'armchair warriors'?

I seriously doubt China or Russia would directly attack us.
That's the purpose of a proxy war. Remember the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980's. We were technically fighting the Soviets through the Taliban... all politics aside, Noone want's a WW3, and China or Russia fighting on Iran's side would surely provoke that. No, they'll keep their distance, just as we did when the Russian's attacked South Osetia. And just as the Russians did while we provided arms for the Taliban.

It's not like I want to go to war with another middle eastern country, I can just tell that it may be coming. Not being able to afford a war hasn't stopped us before. If the Government sees Iran as a threat then they will act accordingly.

That's bull shit. The 'people' of Iran do not all dislike America! People try to portray all Middle East countries as un-educated, un-American people. That just isn't true. I have seen interviews with Iranians who say the exact opposite of what you have commented. Who should I believe? Them, or you?

Connie, did I ever say "all" of them? No, I did not. The Majority though, yes, they do hate us, because we've made their lives so difficult in the past years, the majority see us as heretical jewish neo-crusaders. Its sad, but its true. There are the minority (probably 30-25% of the country) who think for themselves and actually like America and what we stand for. it's the other 70% that may hate Iran's government, but hate us much more.
Please don't put words into my mouth, the world isn't as innocent as it seems.

the Taliban is largely made up of Mujahideen Soviet War veterans and all come from the same Pashtun tribes that fought against the Soviets. The Mujahideen and Taliban are largely the same, with the same goals and interests, although, yes, they are different, sorry should have been clearer on that.

I'm sorry, I was not putting words into your mouth. I am just sick of the war talk. Generalizing is not helpful. It misleads people to believe 'all' of them dislike the U.S.

Even when Americans found out our own 'self-professed decider' used fixed facts and forged documents to start a preemptive war of choice, we did not hold our own leader accountable.

One would have thought, if we demand accountability for leaders and citizens of other nations, we would also demand accountability for our own?

its unspeakable what is happening in the middle-east every day
thank you for sending this video, noone is truly innocent when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

No kidding, democracy in Mexico is under attack from the cartels, I can't believe people are in denial about this. The proof is irrefutable.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65R6A520100628

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/16/world/la-fg-mexico-narco-censorship-2010...

http://www.crimespider.com/crime-talk/drug-hit-men-kill-journalist-claim-life-of...

If it wasn't true why haven't the Iranians adamantly denied it?

You think Iran is a free country?

Iraq may have been a misguided war, but what does that have to do with the Iranians fund the freaking TALIBAN?

If this is true then they are only dragging this war out and making it longer. If they are doing this they are supporting people who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. We've made mistakes, there is no denying it, but the the Taliban are pure concentrated evil.

Hanging a 7 year old boy as a spy, gassing girls for going to school, throwing acid on girls and women. Bombing civilians, the Taliban kill far more innocents than we do. They do not give a d*mn about innocent lives, we do.

No, it's far more than "not liking America" he is materially supporting people who are killing American soldiers, who are killing Afghan civilians, who are throwing acid in girls faces just for going to school and gassing girls schools and burning the to the ground and executing teachers!

As for the Iranians overthrowing him, I hope beyond hope that they will, but at this point there is no way for Iran to be free except armed revolution. The mullahs have made clear that they will not tolerate moderates, nor will they tolerate protest or peaceful attempts at reform.

An Iranian only solution could only be achieved by either a coup, or through revolution.

As the regime has created it's own zealous army of religious fanatics called the revolutionary guards and has packed the regular military with radicals, not to mention the paramilitary Basij, it is doubtful that the Iranian people could on their own achieve victory against the Iranian regime, it's hold on power is too deep.

True many Iranians love America, but these are also people who hate hate their own government, who's side are you theirs, or the Mullahs?

I don't think that 70% figure is true, that's total rubbish.