Briefing was apparently not about Iran

Oops on Iran from WashingtonPost (my emphasis):

[Lt. Gen.] Caldwell was asked about a controversy over a briefing here Sunday in which senior U.S. officials displayed weapons being used by insurgents and said they were smuggled into Iraq by elite Iranian forces under the control of Iran's leaders. Caldwell did not repeat those assertions and said the military did not intend to implicate the Iranian government in the presentation. "This was not the intention behind the briefing," he said. The briefer "was responding to questions and trying to be informative."

Huh? That was exactly the point, other than to play mind games.

Speaking of mind games, the article itself is about a rumor the US has started that Moqtada al Sadr has fled to Iran. This could be accurate, we know his family is in hiding, but this strikes me first guess as quite unlikely. Sadr has expected to die (he wore white as a sign of coming martyrdom back in 2003/04) since the beginning. He claims power from the fact that he and his family (including his murdered father, brother, and great uncle) did not flee to Iran like the al-Hakim SCIRI clan.

He is certainly in hiding, the question is where. Again I think another form of psych-ops, but we'll see.

UPDATE (2:40 PM 2/14): Pace says that likely arms have come from Iran but he can not say that the Iranian government knows of and/or encourages these arms.