Petraeus Aide Denies Report That Iran Is Not Aiding Iraq Militants

Yesterday, I wrote of my confusion with regards to an article by Sara A. Carter writing for The Washington Times reports in which she reported.

Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Washington Times.

Today, we get COL Steven Boylan take on this article.

Col. Steven Boylan told FOX News that the article, purported to include quotes from Petraeus and Boylan, "is inaccurate." "We do not know if there has been a decrease in the supply of Iranian weapons," Boylan wrote to news outlets that picked up the Washington Times story. "It is not clear if Iran's leaders stopped supplying weapons or training to extremist elements in Iraq. We hope that they have, but until we can confirm it, we are in the wait and see mode. "We have seen a decrease in the attacks using four specific types of Iranian weapons. However, this should not be misunderstood as anything other than lowered levels of attacks using these specific weapons," he wrote.

Like I stated yesterday, Iran will do what is in Iran's best interest and towards it future goal of having a Shiite Crescent from Iran to Lebanon.

While U.S Forces have seen a decrease in attacks using Iranina weapons, we do not know if this is because Iran is reducing the supply of these weapons, whether we are interdicting the shipment of these weapons, whether we are discovering them before the attack happens, whether we have killed or detained cells which emplace these weapons, or whether they are currently just being stockpiled at cache.

All these factors made me doubt the Washington Times article. Now with COL Boylan's correction to set the record straight, it seems that Sara Carter chose to believe what she wanted to believe vice what was actually stated.