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| IRGC general admits to helping Zarqawi |
| 2004-08-12 |
| An official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has admitted to providing assistance to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to conduct attacks in Iraq, Asharq al-Awsat reported, citing an unidentified Iranian official. Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the al-Quds corps in the revolutionary guard, confessed in a seminar to helping Zarqawi carry out suicide attacks to serve the interests of the Islamic Republic, the London-based Saudi newspaper reported, citing an Iranian official who was at the meeting. Zarqawi and as many as 20 members of his Ansar al-Islam group can enter Iran whenever they want through certain border points that stretch between Halabja in northern Iraq to Ilam in the south, Suleimani said, according to the paper. Zarqawi went to Iran a few months ago where he spent some time in an Iranian revolutionary guard training camp in the area of Mehran near the border with Iraq and later returned to Baqubah, north of Baghdad, the paper said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #8 londonistan paper quotes an anonymous official who heard the general say this at a seminar. I beleive it, as it fits well with other intell, but a smoking gun this aint. Faster please, yes, but we need more evidence to make this work diplomatically. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-08-12 09:52 |
| #7 Sure as hell sounds like an act of war to me... |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-08-12 08:33 |
| #6 Can we bomb them now,please. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2004-08-12 08:29 |
| #5 Carpet bomb the headquarters of the fools. This stupid moron just signed his death warrant. Now we can be fairly certain of where many of the AQ types in Iran are holed up and with whom. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-08-12 02:01 |
| #4 I've been telling Rantburg this for months: The IRG is behind almost all of this crap. And its pissing off the Iranian "Regular" Army (sort of an SS versus Wehrmacht thing). The professional soldiers in Iran are starting to get fed up with amateur crap like this - once word spreads that the Mullas and thier attack dogs in the IRG are tryign to start a war wiht Iraq and are bakcing boomers, the middle class in Iran will push even harder. This will only add to the internal stresses in Iran. Good. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2004-08-12 00:34 |
| #3 It is interesting to see that this general believes that having a surrogate obliterate innocent Iraqis will make the new regime in Iraq more sympathetic to Iran than to the US. There is a percentage chance that he is correct. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-08-12 00:23 |
| #2 About all that's left is for Iran to pull the dirt back in on top of themselves. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-08-12 00:17 |
| #1 It appears that the Black Turbans are using heavy equipment to dig that hole for themselves. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-08-12 00:12 |