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US attempts to claim Iran arms Shiite militias in Iraq encounters not just one but two setbacks.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse U.S. charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms were of Iranian origin.
The news media's failure to report that the arms captured from Shiite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the U.S. military from a much bigger blow to its anti-Iran strategy.
The Bush administration and top Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic U.S. political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq and especially its alleged export of arms to Shiite militias.
The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shiite militias that would be surfaced publicly after the al-Maliki government had endorsed it and it used to accuse Iran publicly.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse U.S. charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms were of Iranian origin.
The news media's failure to report that the arms captured from Shiite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the U.S. military from a much bigger blow to its anti-Iran strategy.
The Bush administration and top Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic U.S. political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq and especially its alleged export of arms to Shiite militias.
The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shiite militias that would be surfaced publicly after the al-Maliki government had endorsed it and it used to accuse Iran publicly.
Where Chinese families once hiked among the pines, there is now a scene of devastation so complete that ABC China correspondent Stephen McDonell felt compelled to make a comparison with Hiroshima after the atom bomb was dropped.
He says continuing aftershocks have made the area at the epicentre of last week's 7.9 magnitude earthquake deeply unstable, fuelling more landslides in an area that once housed many thousands of people.
McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill walked for 12 hours to get to the town of Ying Xiu, which was until last week an industrial town with several factories, and a population McDonell estimated would have been around 11,000.
"The whole place has been flattened. There's not one building left standing," he told ABC Radio's The World Today program.
"They've accounted for about 2,400 people, so presumably everybody else has died - including those attending a middle school and a primary school that were full at the time.
"The hospital collapsed instantly. Basically the entire town of Ying Xiu was destroyed in two minutes flat."
He says there are still a few people in the town, hanging around and waiting, indicating a sense of vain hope that life may still be found.
"It's like sitting around in a tent in the middle of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped," McDonell said.
About 4,000 Chinese soldiers are in and around where the town once stood, their entry to the region possible only after clearing and rebuilding the road, and by helicopter.
While McDonell says there are some continuing rescue efforts, the work was being done with little enthusiasm, so long after the quake and in the face of such immense forces of destruction.
He says he and Hill walked through valleys which were popular with bushwalkers, but which are now filled with vast piles of rubble and boulders the size of houses, as entire mountain faces peeled off during the quake.
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He says continuing aftershocks have made the area at the epicentre of last week's 7.9 magnitude earthquake deeply unstable, fuelling more landslides in an area that once housed many thousands of people.
McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill walked for 12 hours to get to the town of Ying Xiu, which was until last week an industrial town with several factories, and a population McDonell estimated would have been around 11,000.
"The whole place has been flattened. There's not one building left standing," he told ABC Radio's The World Today program.
"They've accounted for about 2,400 people, so presumably everybody else has died - including those attending a middle school and a primary school that were full at the time.
"The hospital collapsed instantly. Basically the entire town of Ying Xiu was destroyed in two minutes flat."
He says there are still a few people in the town, hanging around and waiting, indicating a sense of vain hope that life may still be found.
"It's like sitting around in a tent in the middle of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped," McDonell said.
About 4,000 Chinese soldiers are in and around where the town once stood, their entry to the region possible only after clearing and rebuilding the road, and by helicopter.
While McDonell says there are some continuing rescue efforts, the work was being done with little enthusiasm, so long after the quake and in the face of such immense forces of destruction.
He says he and Hill walked through valleys which were popular with bushwalkers, but which are now filled with vast piles of rubble and boulders the size of houses, as entire mountain faces peeled off during the quake.
作者： 48王越 2008-5-19 16:52 回复此发言
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Where Chinese families once hiked among the pines, there is now a scene of devastation so complete that ABC China correspondent Stephen McDonell felt compelled to make a comparison with Hiroshima after the atom bomb was dropped.
He says continuing aftershocks have made the area at the epicentre of last week's 7.9 magnitude earthquake deeply unstable, fuelling more landslides in an area that once housed many thousands of people.
McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill walked for 12 hours to get to the town of Ying Xiu, which was until last week an industrial town with several factories, and a population McDonell estimated would have been around 11,000.
"The whole place has been flattened. There's not one building left standing," he told ABC Radio's The World Today program.
"They've accounted for about 2,400 people, so presumably everybody else has died - including those attending a middle school and a primary school that were full at the time.
"The hospital collapsed instantly. Basically the entire town of Ying Xiu was destroyed in two minutes flat."
He says there are still a few people in the town, hanging around and waiting, indicating a sense of vain hope that life may still be found.
"It's like sitting around in a tent in the middle of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped," McDonell said.
About 4,000 Chinese soldiers are in and around where the town once stood, their entry to the region possible only after clearing and rebuilding the road, and by helicopter.
While McDonell says there are some continuing rescue efforts, the work was being done with little enthusiasm, so long after the quake and in the face of such immense forces of destruction.
He says he and Hill walked through valleys which were popular with bushwalkers, but which are now filled with vast piles of rubble and boulders the size of houses, as entire mountain faces peeled off during the quake.
He says continuing aftershocks have made the area at the epicentre of last week's 7.9 magnitude earthquake deeply unstable, fuelling more landslides in an area that once housed many thousands of people.
McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill walked for 12 hours to get to the town of Ying Xiu, which was until last week an industrial town with several factories, and a population McDonell estimated would have been around 11,000.
"The whole place has been flattened. There's not one building left standing," he told ABC Radio's The World Today program.
"They've accounted for about 2,400 people, so presumably everybody else has died - including those attending a middle school and a primary school that were full at the time.
"The hospital collapsed instantly. Basically the entire town of Ying Xiu was destroyed in two minutes flat."
He says there are still a few people in the town, hanging around and waiting, indicating a sense of vain hope that life may still be found.
"It's like sitting around in a tent in the middle of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped," McDonell said.
About 4,000 Chinese soldiers are in and around where the town once stood, their entry to the region possible only after clearing and rebuilding the road, and by helicopter.
While McDonell says there are some continuing rescue efforts, the work was being done with little enthusiasm, so long after the quake and in the face of such immense forces of destruction.
He says he and Hill walked through valleys which were popular with bushwalkers, but which are now filled with vast piles of rubble and boulders the size of houses, as entire mountain faces peeled off during the quake.
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