Posted on 10/21/2005 7:34:43 AM PDT by Wiz
London, Oct. 19 – An Iranian-backed militia group which has penetrated key positions in the Iraqi Interior Ministry has been ordered to assassinate Iraqi Sunni Muslim activists, Iraqi media reported.
Iran had prepared to launch a large intelligence operation aimed at eliminating secular and Sunni activists in Iraq, the al-Molf Net website wrote, adding that armed groups with ties to Tehran have been ordered to “assassinate the more influential and active Sunni Arab activists in Iraq”.
A "central body" responsible for the assassinations has been set up in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, the report said. The body is run by a committee of several pro-Iranian Badr Brigade commanders including Hadi Al-Ameri, Abu-Montazer Al-Husseini, Abu-Zolfaqar Hassan, Abu-Hosham Ahmadi, Haj Abu-Nour, and Ahmad Al-Jaberi, as well as a representative from the elite Qods Force, responsible for extra-territorial activities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The report added that the IRGC representative reported the committee's meetings directly to Tehran.
Separately, the Iraqi daily al-Rai-ol-Am wrote that following the approval by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, a military industry team called "the Iron Group for production of arms and equipment", which is affiliated with the IRGC, had been assigned to “manufacture single-barrel Katiyusha rockets, 107-mm rockets and various special bombs”.
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Yes, here-here - bout time.
I'm torn.
If only Iran wasn't backing them.
This is, after all, the Middle East.
Scorpions abound.
No matter how hard they may try, Westerners could not ever hope to catch up, killing as many Muslims as other, more fervent and dedicated Muslims are doing.
For Westerners, this would be repugnant. For the jihadist Islamics, it is just business.
Iranian meddling is not good, not matter what they're doing. It could very well be that the Sunnis they're targeting are very pro-democracy.
The only good I see coming out of this is that it highlights what everyone has known all along - Iran is agitating the unrest in Iraq for their own national interests. They're most likely responsible for the 'all laws will conform to Islamic law' nonsense in their constitution.
Also, it's very interesting to me that when we couldn't find Saddams WMD, a year later all of the sudden Iran has a nuke program... Remember what happend during the first gulf war when Saddam sent his fighter planes to Iran?
Ya think?!
This is an attempt to forment civil war in Iraq
BUMPER
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