More than 150 copper discs were found in a weapons cache near Baquba in 2007. The copper discs are a vital component to the explosively formed penetrators that have been used to attack coalition forces due to their capability to penetrate uparmored vehicles. While other munitions found in the cache were made in Iran, there are no tell-tale markings to the origins of the lethal discs. (Department of Defense)
Military Times: Trial: At each Iraq bomb blast site, a trail of evidence leads to Iran
WASHINGTON — The blast of specially designed bombs used to kill or maim more than 1,000 U.S. troops during the war in Iraq can seem to the victims to come from nowhere.
In a flash, liquefying metal shredded even armored vehicles and bulletproof glass. The aftermath of those bombings can seem a chaotic scene.
But to the trained eye, small details left at what becomes, essentially, a crime scene, reveal telltale patterns and physical evidence. That evidence marks a trail not only to the local attack but the source of the training and devices.
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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. It may take decades, but one day Iran will be held accountable for this.
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@WNU, if trump remains in office for 4 more years, my guess is he will make his generals wet dreams come true @ pay back.
"It may take decades, but one day Iran will be held accountable for this."
There is an ancient American saying: "Justice delayed is justice denied."
Sure William E. Gladstone was a Brit, which proves the point. America's antecedents many, if not most of them are British.
Suing (or getting the money from) the Iranian government 3 decades from now may well be meaningless. Vastly different people will be in charge and most of the Iranian will not have been alive at the time or if they were, they would have played no role in the deaths being mere civilians.
Editor,
I like your optimism on this. Unfortunately I'm not seeing it. Internatiibal bodies will pretty much rubber stamp anything and everything Iran wants. This leads me to see the exact opposite occurring. Essentially there's a real risk of American leaders being hauled before some international kangaroo court for "justice" in the form of whatever Iran wants.
Decades?? The very existence of America beyond the next five years is problematic at best. As such, decades from now who is going to hold Iran to account, certainly not the United States and as for everyone else they want their business dealings with Iran.
To you, the loss of your staff involved in killing Iraqis in their own country is an abomination worth pursuing in the courts. Somehow the fact that the Lancet style study yielded a kill of 1,500,000 Iraqis ( plus 500,000 too H W Bush's sanctions ) giving losses of 1500 to 1 for Iraq in their own country does not generate much outrage against resistance forces for their efforts to use their persecutor' weapons against them. Bombs away !
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