Thousands of Iranian Fighters in Iraq Agree to Surrender to US Army V Corps

World Tribune.com ^ | Monday May 12, 2003 | Special Report Staff

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The United States has forced the Iranian opposition based in Iraq to disarm.

United States officials said thousands of Mujahadeen fighters located in Northeastern Iraq have agreed to lay down their weapons.

They said the Iranian opposition insurgents, surrounded by United States tanks, relayed their agreement amid heavy pressure by the United States Army V Corps.

The Muhajahadeen has controlled five camps near the northern border with Iran. The bases which contain tanks, artillery and armoured vehicles, are around the city of Baqubah in the Diyala province, about 70 km North of Baghdad.

About 4,000 Muhajahadeen troops are belived to be located in the area Middle East Newsline reports.

[ewing]

Well done guys!

[Yardstick]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the V Corps?

[ewing]

A unit that was giving some heavy incentive for the Iranians to surrender it sounds like..

[demlosers]

An Army Corp is made up of 2 or more Army divisions lead by a 3 star general. V Corp HQ is located in Heidelburg Germany.

[Yardstick]

I see. So there must be other corps like H Corps or M Corps (now that I think about it it seems like I've heard of an I Corps), with their HQ's in various places.

[theDentist]

I believe (and I could be wrong) it's the Fifth Corps.
They just use Roman Numerals in description.

[damper99]

Army Corps use Roman Numerals as a designation. Divisions and lower use regular (hate to call them Arabic) numbers. Armies use spelled out designations like "Third Army".

[Crowcreek]

I think they also say "eye-core" for 'I corps', and so on -- It's part of the unofficial system of military terminology.

[ewing]

Sounds correct, it is Five

[Crowcreek]

Slang, I mean . . .

[VaBthang4]

Probably a good idea.

We had been paying these bozos [who are on the state departments list of terrorist org] to guard the avenues of approach from Iran [which the Iranian backed Badre Brigade were using] but using them as a proxy keeps distance between us and Iran.

Now we remove the proxy. If a single US soldier dies while defending Iraqi sovereignty from Iranian backed terrorists then the pressure shifts immediately [and heavily] to Tehran.

It's chess not checkers.

[Grampa Dave]

Shock and Awe works again without firing a shot.

Of course, we have no idea of what our Spec Ops Guys have been doing to these thugs.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Not quite. The "V" is the Roman Numeral "V" which means five. Same with "I" which stands for one.

[em2vn]

I [eye]corps was a geographic designation for the northern portion South Vietnam. The southern most area of the nation was four corps. Two and Three corps lay in between.