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Iraqi: Hamas, Hezbollah operating in Iraq?
Hat tip to Roger Simon...
Hamas and Hezbollah are operating openly in southern Iraq, an Iraqi-American recently returned from the country said Thursday. "I was surprised to see an office for Hamas in Nasariah, and also a Hezbollah office in Basra and Safwan," said Zainab Al-Suwaij, a Shiite Muslim native of Basra. "I was shocked to see their flag and their sign there. ... Do we ... who are emerging from the terror of Saddam after 35 years, need this in our country?"
| I'd say you need it like you need additional holes in your head... |
She said Hezbollah has been operating in Safwan, a town on the Kuwait border, for about four months. "The building is secure with guards and weapons," she told a forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Al-Suwaij, a veteran of the failed 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein, has been working with USAID to rebuild the Iraqi school system and on women's issues. Al-Suwaij said foreign militants are recruiting Iraqi youth with seminars that impart extremist ideologies. Occupation authorities should close the offices, she said. "These are not Iraqi groups."
| This is from a UPI report, and they don't have a record of being spectacularly accurate. If it's true, it's cause for apoplexy in Rumsfeld's office. It doesn't make sense to expend the money and blood to dispose of Sammy, only to have Sheikh Yassin's and Nasrallah's thugs running around with guns. Basra and Safwan are under Brit control. It's time for them to look into it. |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2004-01-16 |
