 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday declined to discuss in detail reports that a large cache of manufactured explosives had been found on the Iraq side of the Iraq-Iran border. But he did say during a Pentagon briefing that it was "notably unhelpful for the Iranians to be allowing weapons of those types to cross the border." "It is true that weapons, clearly, unambiguously from Iran have been found in Iraq," Rumsfeld said in answer to a question. But he declined to answer additional questions about the reported find, including the exact types of weapons found, and whether they were linked to the Iranian government or to terrorist organizations in Iran. Asked if he knew how many such weapons were in Iraq, Rumsfeld said, "Oh, no. Goodness, how can you know? You only know what you know. That is a big border." |