Iraq is at WAR with Iran

John Loftus reported on Fox news this morning that Iraq is at WAR with Iran. Three weeks age Al-Sadr’s boss, an Iranian Counsel-General in Karbala was kidnapped by a rival clan. Bags of encrypted codes were found in his car, and as it turns out, this guy is close to the chief of Iranian spydom. After serious interrogation, a video taped confession has been obtained proving that Iran is behind the insurgence. The Counsel-General declared that Al-Sadr is a puppet of Iran, that his job was to announce in a very few days that Moqi has taken over the holy city and was declaring it an independent Shiite state in alliance with Iran. The Iraqi government is preparing to tell their own people that they are at war with Iran and that Iran is behind the wave of assignations all across the country.

Iran is feeling the heat being sand witched between Iraq and Afghanistan. Only a question of timing before the Mullas are replaced and the nuke program is dismantled in Iran.

The top sponsor of terrorism and radical Islamic thought(hatred of western civilization)is the top candidate for regime change, followed by N.Korea.

This ought to be interesting...

I think Iran needs to be dealt with, but it might be a little soon for Iraq to go around shaking their sword...

Then again, an outside enemy is an incredibly unifying force.

So this might cement their unity. Now, whether or not they go ahead with planned elections will determine if it will be a democratic union or another dictatorship.

I think if Iraq holds valid elections in January, regardless of a conflict with Iran, it will prove to the world that the Iraqis have what it takes.

And though I doubt it, I hope they do.

No evidence that Iran is aiding Sadr militia: US

hindustantimes.com ^ | Friday, August 20, 2004 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 08/20/2004 9:22:26 AM PDT by F14 Pilot

The United States has no conclusive evidence that radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has received arms from Iran, but refuses to rule out the possibility, a senior US official said.

"There are certainly those charges being made, but I guess we are hesitant to say definitively 'yes' or definitively 'no' because we just don't have conclusive evidence it's either validated or knocked down," a senior State Department official told reporters on Thursday.

For more than two weeks, Sadr's Mehdi Army has been locked in heavy fighting with US-led Iraqi government forces on a mission to crush his militia in the holy city of Najaf.

Noting the "porous border" with Iran, the US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said "it's certainly plausible" that Sadr was receiving weapons from Iran, but added that Washington could not be certain.

"I don't know if we've traced weapons in the hands of Mehdi people across the border to Iran," the official said. "There are plenty of weapons in Iraq you don't have to rely on Iran for them.

"Obviously they are getting their guns from somebody, but I don't think we are ready to say it is the Iranian government that's doing it."

On August 10, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said the United States was concerned by suggestions that Iran is involved in deadly unrest in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Najaf and maintained it was not in Tehran's interest to foment instability in its neighbour.

But he declined to confirm Iraqi Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan's claim that militiamen loyal to Sadr were receiving weapons from Iran.

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