There’s a lot people are reading from the Guardian today. This should be on the top of the pile:
Iran is engaged in an extensive covert campaign to arm, finance, train and equip Taliban insurgents, Afghan warlords allied to al-Qaida and suicide bombers fighting to eject British and western forces from Afghanistan, according to classified US military intelligence reports contained in the war logs.
The secret “threat reports”, mostly comprising raw data provided by Afghan spies and paid informants, cannot be corroborated individually. Even if the claims are accurate, it is unclear whether the activities they describe took place with the full knowledge of Tehran or are the work of hardline elements of the semi-autonomous Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ideological sympathisers of the Taliban, arms smugglers or criminal gangs.
The Iranian government has repeatedly denied accusations that it is aiding militants fighting to oust President Hamid Karzai’s pro-western government. It blames the presence of western forces for Afghanistan’s instability.
That’s another for the Michael-Ledeen-warned-us file.