Jeff Stein demolishes the odd claim that Iran was responsible for downing the US helicopter in Afghanistan made by novelist Brad Thor, one of Glenn Beck's favorite "counterterrorism" analysts:
Asked about the helicopter incident, Thor started off with a riff out of right field, that the Afghan government is “riddled with Iranian spies.” He then offered CNN host John King a convoluted explanation of the weapon suspected of downing the helicopter, which seems to have been a rocket-propelled grenade, as something uniquely Iranian (as opposed to the Pakistan-supplied weapons they’ve been using for years).
Thor, whom King had introduced as someone “familiar with these types of operations” — which one can only hope he's regretted by now — called them "flying IUD's." Surely he meant IED's.
Video of the debacle here (Thor's craziness at around the 4 minute mark).
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