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Report: Hizbullah Supervising, Funding Qaida-Linked Fighters
2015-02-23
Fighting them with one hand, allied with them on the other. How classically Arab.
The enemy of my enemy?
[AnNahar] Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
has reportedly supervised and funded fighters planning to target U.S. interests in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the United Arab of Emirates and Jordan.

Sources told the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday that there is new evidence proving Iran's involvement with al-Qaeda and Nusra Front after Tehran embraced a number of fighters scheming to attack U.S. interests in Riyadh, Dubai and Amman.

The sources pointed out that the fighters have been moving through Iranian cities, including Tehran, Mashhad and Zahdan, while Hizbullah supervised their training and pledged to fund them.

Asharq al-Awsat revealed that Saudi national Saleh al-Qarawi, the former leader of the Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
, is running al-Qaeda's operations from Iran.

Qarawi, who is also known as "Najm al-Kheir," planned with Saudi national Abdul Mohsen al-Sharekh, one of al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
's top strategists and an al-Qaeda controller in Syria, to kidnap foreigners in Saudi Arabia but they didn't carry out their scheme.

Al-Sharekh is one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted terrorists, he has previously served in al-Qaeda's Iran-based network and as a key financial controller for al-Qaeda in Pakistain. The United States and United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
recently imposed sanctions on him.

Qarawi also planned with other accomplices to target U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia and the bombing of a U.S. base in Jordan.

According to the daily, a Jordanian identified with his first name "Firas" suggested on Qarawi to target a U.S. compound and three vehicles but the operation failed after Amman security forces busted the scheme.

Qarawi also voiced support to a plan to target the U.S. embassy in Dubai by a drone or a jacket wallah flying a training jet, but the operation also failed.
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