Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Weapon's Tale

No doubt, fans of the US standard MM-DD-YY date format that pisses off so much of the rest of the world will be delighted to discover that the Iranians also apparently use it - presumably because the US is such a big export customer for Iranian produced munitions...




Read more on Stef's blog:
He simply (and pictorially) asks
How do markings printed on a Western standard calibre mortar round, written in English and conforming to Western not Iranian dating conventions prove that the round was recently manufactured in Iran? And while we're at it, what the fuck are you paid for? To uncritically parrot everything you are told by 'unnamed senior security sources' or to do some elementary research before passing that crap off as news and in-depth analysis?


Update:
Washington Post: A Shaky Briefing on Iran

The administration finally unveiled its case this weekend, first in coordinated and anonymous leaks to a trusting New York Times reporter, then in an extraordinarily secretive military briefing at which no one would speak on the record, journalists weren't allowed to photograph the so-called evidence, and nothing even remotely like proof of direct Iranian government involvement was presented.

2 comments:

HopeSpringsATurtle said...

Nice find Naj thanks for getting it out there.

Wolfie said...

Specifically American date format, not British English (we use DD/MM/YY).

Doh!