Insurgent Admits Iran, Syria Links on Tape

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/breaking_news/10592682.htm ^ | 1/7/05

[buffyt]

As Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"

[M Kehoe]

Iran and Syria are two cesspool countries that need draining.

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 1/07/2005. Thanks Lori675.

Moayad Ahmed Yasseen, leader of Jaish Muhammad, which is Arabic for Muhammad's Army, was captured nearly two months ago in Fallujah, the former guerrilla stronghold west of Baghdad... Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said last week that Iraq's patience was running out with countries that support the insurgency. On the tape, Yasseen, a colonel in Saddam Hussein's army, said two other former Iraqi military officers belonging to his group were sent "to Iran in April or May, where they met a number of Iranian intelligence officials." He said they also met with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei... Yasseen also said he got permission from Saddam - while the former dictator was in hiding after his ouster by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 - to cross into Syria and meet with a Syrian intelligence officer to ask for money and weapons... The group is known to have cooperated with Jordanian terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as well as other Saddam loyalists and al-Qaida supporters. Allawi has accused Jaish Muhammad of killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq.