Iran Direct Supply of IEDs to Al-Sadr Militias

ABC News ^ | November 30, 2006 | daveinboca

[daveinboca]

US Intelligence has confirmed that Iranian sources are directly supplying Shiite militias with IEDs and other weapons used against US troops, ABC reports.

Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.

Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

Two senior U.S. defense officials confirmed to ABC News earlier reports that fighters from the Mahdi army have traveled to Lebanon to receive training from Hezbollah.

While the New York Times reported that as many as 2,000 Iraqi militia fighters had received training in Lebanon, one of the senior officials said he believed the number was "closer to 1,000." Officials say a much smaller number of Hezbollah fighters have also traveled through Syria and into Iraq to provide training.

U.S. intelligence officials believe the number of Al-Sadr's Mahdi army now includes 40,000 fighters, making it an especially formidable force.

The choice for US policy planners is a political one. The crazed Iranian president made his political career in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and to allow him and his henchmen in the Iranian government to get away with this international law-breaking would compound the original felony, committed two years ago, of not taking on the Al-Sadr militias when they were merely several thousand very vulnerable fighters. Now they number in the dozens of thousands.

The whack-job Iranian president regards American indecision on retaliation as a total victory on his part and it encourages him to expand his activities, and discourages any restraining influences on him among the highest levels of Iranian elites who may have doubts. He seems to be pushing the edge of the envelope with impunity.

Either the US goes to engage and/or attack the source of the unrest in Iraq and Lebanon, or it slowly retires in disgrace from the Middle East and lets the EU and UN take over, with Russia as an interested partner.

It's obvious that Ahmedinejad will have the nuke he wants before long, and that it will be transported via camelback to Israel, if need be. Does GWB sit on this information and wring his hands? Has he been completely neutered by this election, which actually was the more-or-less usual setback for a party in power the sixth year of a presidency?

Are Gates and Baker going to talk to Iran and Syria, even against the august advice of Chiraq?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[quesney]

So what are we going to do about it? (crickets)

[numberonepal]

nuthin'

[curiosity]

I'll tell you what we ought to do: assasinate that poor excuse of a human being who is the current PM of Iraq and bring back Allawi who has the guts and the stomach to do what's necessary. It's high time Shiite millitants started dissapearing mysteriously during the night again and turning up in trash dumps with bullets in their brains, just like when Allawi was in power.

Time to abandon that stupid neocon democracy project. Letting a population of religious nuts vote is just plain insanity.

[rahbert]

you mean posting pictures of nuke explosions on FR won't
intimidate the mullahs?

[r9etb]

So what are we going to do about it? (crickets)

Ah, but the real question is: what are YOU gonna do about it, other than play Keyboard Kommando?

[curiosity]

I agree with you that war against Iran would probably not be effective. Especially since we just plain don't have the troops to do it with all our other engagements in Iraq and elsewhere. I completely agree with you that we need to encourage and aid as much as we can the opposition groups.

My post was about what to do in Iraq, not Iran. I'm proposing to assasinate the current prime minister of Iraq and install a dictator like Allawi who, unconstrained by Western ideas about human rights, will do what is necessary to bring some stability to Iraq.

[Lurker]

War is not the answer

Sure it is.

A foreign attack will only help the mullahs

Not if we kill all of them.

The way to counter the regime's threat is to isolate the regime and recognize the Iranian Resistance that is spearheaded by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and the 4,000 strong MEK army

Somehow I doubt Mrs. Rajavi and 4,000 exiles can take on the Revolutionary Guards.

I say let's just dust as many as we can from 35,000 feet and then send in the US Army to mop up.

The population inside Iran wants the regime gone in its entirety.

So why aren't some of these 'mullahs' ending up in garbage bins? They have houses, they have to shop. Just sidle up behind 'em in the market and slip a knife between their ribs.

L

[curiosity]

The it seems we have a Catch-22: we can't solve the situation in Iraq unless we change Iran, but we can't do much about Iran so long as we're bogged down in Iraq.

[Biscuit85]

http://www.iran.org/news/24-Irandemos.htm

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19533

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20972

MEK/NCRI is a terror organization. Period!