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Iraqi police seize Iranian truck with forged ballots
(Scroll down in this post for an important update on this story)
Looks like the Iranians are trying to pull a fast one in the Iraqi elections and got caught red handed (rather than purple fingered):
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 13 – Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a tanker on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at the Interior Ministry said.
The tanker was seized in the evening by agents with the American-trained border protection force at the Iraqi town of Badra, after crossing at Munthirya on the Iraqi border, the official said. According to the Iraqi official, the border police found several thousand partly completed ballots inside.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Iranian truck driver told the police under interrogation that at least three other trucks filled with ballots had crossed from Iran at different spots along the border.
The official, who did not attend the interrogation, said he did not know where the driver was headed, or what he intended to do with the ballots.
Now let’s see … just what could that driver have possibly intended to do with those ballots? Hmmm…..
I have no doubt that the Iranian government, headed by a guy who has ‘doubts’ that the Holocaust happened and who thinks Israel should be “wiped off the map” was behind this. After all, forcing the kind of representation that Iran wants in the Iraqi gov’t would be all good for Iran, who would love nothing more than to have a neighboring country which is geographically closer to Israel on their (Iran’s) side.
Read more via Frank Warner.
(Thanks for the tip, Kevin)
AM Update: Is this story true? Captain Ed references a Reuters piece that casts major doubts on the validity of this story. Could the NYTimes have possibly been trying to get a jump on discrediting the Iraqi elections? (Hat tip to Pat in the comments section here).
Check out Confederate Yankee’s post on this as well.
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I did mention this in the Iraqi voter post.
I do believe that the Mullahs and these Iranian troublemakers should get their forged ballots back attached to 500 Lb bombs.
It might teach them a lesson, and they’d get to see if they get 72 Virgins for their actions or 72 pissed Virginians kicking the snot out of them.
Seems this story has been busted. Captain Ed has the details over at his blog.
Hmm, I saw it at Frank Warner, and then on Drudge, so assumed it was true. I don’t like to be wrong (heh), but in this case if it’s not true I’d be happier.
I had my suspicions about this story when I heard Terry McAullif was driving the truck. But I still wondered if it were not true. – Lorica
Doesn’t the first story sound too specific to be total bunk? All we have is one source contradicting another. One is anonymous and the other is a U.S. proxy. Could it be that the trucks with fake ballots did exist, but did not originate from the Iranian government? It would be interesting if all of those ballots were votes for Allawi.
How do you think is is that an 18 wheeler is going to A. get over the closed border from Iran to Iraq?
B. Drive the Semi in the sand?
C. Get the ballots into the ballot boxes
And D) in a tanker truck? Might it be a little obvious trying to unload ballots from a tanker truck?
Exactly what Pat just said! I agree
I’ve been thinking on this for awhile. Saddam smuggled gold bars and cash out of the central bank in tanker trucks. Why couldn’t other contraband be smuggled in or out of Iraq in tanker trucks?
Here is my line of thought on it, PCD:
Gold might very well be smuggled from one dictatorship to another without hinderance because while it might be seen by any number of people, none would dare speak of it for fear of being fed to a shredder.
There is no such fear in Iraq today, so if a tanker truck were seen offloading a non-liquid load, it would certainly be commented on, and thus unlikely.