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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20694&Itemid=21
Press Release A080624a-069
June 24, 2008
Coalition forces capture four SG criminals, destroy VBIED
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured four suspected Special Groups criminals during a raid in southeast Baghdad Tuesday.
Acting on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted a suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups commander in the Karadah district of Baghdad. According to information provided by suspected Special Groups criminals already detained, the suspected outlaw has facilitated numerous attacks on Coalition bases. These attacks included several early May rocket attacks on the Green Zone that injured several Iraqi civilians and security force members.
During their search of the suspected criminal’s hide out, Coalition forces discovered a vehicle being prepared for use as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. In order to prevent criminals from using the weapon in the future, Coalition forces moved the vehicle away and destroyed it.
“Coalition forces are removing illegal weapons used to inflict terror and destruction against the Iraqi people,” said U.S. Army Capt. Charles Calio, MNF-I spokesperson.
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“Hezbollah: Iran’s Army in Lebanon”
By Elias Bejjani
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, June 24, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hezbollah is not a Lebanese party by any criteria, but rather a foreign army in Lebanon. Its decision-making process, financing, ideology, training, supplies and weapons all come from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters and leadership. It has been well documented by several informed resources that Iran annually pays Hezbollah billions of dollars. This group was founded in Lebanon by the Iranian mullahs in 1982 and it is worth mentioning that Hezbollah’s main mission was and still is to export, advocate and spread the Khomeini religious ideology to all Middle Eastern countries. Hezbollah’s Iranian mission has never been a secret and each and every Lebanese is reminded of this Iranian agenda daily with signs of Hezbollah’s divinity on every street.
Hezbollah is purported to be the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. The organization is trained, heavily armed and very well equipped. It is operationally supported by Syria and heavily funded by Iran. In fact, Hezbollah is so dangerous in terms of its global reach and influence, that the US Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff recently warned that the Hezbollah organization “makes Al Qaeda look like a minor league team.”.”(according to military analyst W. Thomas Smith Jr.)
Needless to say that force and deterrence is the only language that Hezbollah and its masters in both Iran and Syria understand.”