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Iran is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, Gates says (Extra)

Jun 12, 2009, 14:00 GMT

Brussels - Iran is playing a double game in Afghanistan, supporting the Taliban while proclaiming its friendship to the Afghan regime, United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.

'Iran is playing a bit of a double game in Afghanistan ... They profess to have warm relations with the Afghan government, at the same time they are sending in what I would describe as a relatively modest level of weapons and capabilities to attack (Western) forces,' Gates said after talks with NATO counterparts in Brussels.

'I think they are trying to do what they can to hurt us and to hurt our allies and partners in Afghanistan, which also ends up hurting the Afghan people,' he said.

Gates was speaking after NATO defence ministers agreed to streamline the alliance's system for training the Afghan army, and immediately ahead of presidential polls in Iran.

He would not comment on the Iranian election, saying that 'no matter who is elected, we would wait to see which policy is followed by this person.'



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Ex-CIA :'81--'83 PakistanJun 13th, 2009 - 06:56:22

The traitorous Robt. Gates, who like old J.Edgar, has oodles and oodles of files on thousands of American politicos, plus good access to Mossad files, and who way back in the early 80s was CIA dep. dir. ops (any wonder how such a sleaze insinuated himself as Dubya's Defense Secy... or the Obongo Misadministration) is now blaming the inevitable American/Nato defeat in Afghanistan on, you guessed it, the Iranians. It was Gates who was playing a treasonous double-game in the 80s. Certain Americans operatives, like me, were charged to help the Pashto tribesmen fight the Red Army, while other American agents were sent to undo our work ... all to keep the grand strategy orchestrated by Gate's zionist patrons to keep a stalemate going in Afghanistan. When the Soviets were doing to well, we got a lot of materiel and dough for the mujahedeen; when the Afghans were making gains, bad things started happening to us. Of course the whole lousy scheme backfired when the most anti-American (w/ good reason, due to the US duplicity)groups took over in the late 90s. Gates has at least 7 American agents' blood on his filthy, oily hands. Gates is the genius who has expanded this crazy war into Pakistan ... and soon Iran, which I forsee will also be blamed for a surge of violence in Iraq..... all designed to get the American cattle stampeded to another war against the 'real threat' of Iran.... NYC and D>C> under Iranian (old Soviet)suitcase nuke mushroom clouds ... hey if the propaganda worked once

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Robert ShuleJun 13th, 2009 - 07:26:33

Aww,Mr. Gates is complaining as if the U.S. and partners has and is not doing the very same thing in Iraq. Remember a few years ago when those Brit soldiers dressed as Arabs were caught red handed in Basra (I believe it was Basra) just before they were about to bomb something? How much of that violence in Iraq like market bombings and such were and are being done by U.S. special forces or MOSSAD or somebody like that for the purposes of creating excuses for U.S. and partner security forces to stay. What should one expect? U.S. presence in the Middle-East is in part just a protection racket afterall.

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Danny CunningtonJun 14th, 2009 - 13:32:16

As usual the same old recycled falsehoods are touted. Just the same as Iraq. The US is losing and it's the Iranian's fault. His last statement gives him away. He will not comment on the Iranian election and will wait to see what policies the new president follows. There's one big problem with this statement. Iran is a theocracy that has democratic , presidential elections. The president powers are limited and they have no foreign policy powers.

Therefore, 'waiting to see what policies are followed' in an external country by a president that has no foreign policy power is beyond silly. Foreign policy is set by the supreme council. Gates is a disgusting lying reprobate. I watched clips of this guy totally brass faced lying on virtually any subject he is going on about. I have no idea how anyone can find him believable.

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waineJun 14th, 2009 - 18:35:31

Oh dear Iran playing a double game in Afganistan, You wouldn't catch the Americans doing anything like that, they don't play doubles they bonb the shite out of anything that moves friend or foe. If Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban, well at least they target the socalled coalition forces, Talk about double standards. and again the Iranians have elected the wrong man, according to the USA AND THE EU. shades of Hamas. Iran should only elect the West's nominations, no doubt there will be more shouts of stronger sanctions against the regime, these Iranians, will they never learn, democracy is only for the West, for what good it does us.

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MaryroseJun 15th, 2009 - 04:06:44

Gates knows this is what Americans are doing in Afghanistan so is trying to label it to Iran. Actually Americans do this everywhere and has been most common in South America.

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