Thanks for allowing us to read that, Honestly. Here is a good companion article to the piece you posted about the Lebanese fugitive Imad Fayez Mugniyeh (as always, his name is spelled differently in various places). I knew he had surgically altered his appearance, but I did not know he had multiple facial surgeries! He is a real terror and needs to be stopped. The article below was first posted by Casey (who reconfirmed her kind permission to repost her posts here) at ItsHappening.com yesterday. It is in the members only section, but here is a general link: http://www.itshappening.com/index.php
Multiple Iran's Al-Quds Corps Chief Reportedly Admits Providing Facilities to Al-Zarqawi
11 Aug 04
FBIS
London: Al-Sharq al-Awsat in Arabic 11 Aug 04 p2 ['Exclusive' report by Ali Nurizadeh in London: "Iranian Admission of Providing Facilities to Al-Zarqawi in his Terrorist Operations in Iraq. Commander of Revolutionary Guards' Al-Quds Corps: Al-Zarqawi's Activities Serve the Higher Interests of the Islamic Republic"]
London, ExclusiveA reliable Iranian source has asserted that Brigadier General Qasem Solaimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Al-Quds Corps, admitted at a closed seminar that Iran has provided facilities to the Jordanian hardliner Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi who is accused of organizing most of the suicidal attacks and operations in Iraq. He justified this by saying that Al-Zarqawi's activities in Iraq "serve the higher interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran", among them preventing the establishment of a federal secular regime that cooperates with the United States.
The source, which attended the seminar, told "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" that Brig. Gen. Solaimani said at the seminar that was held at a camp for the students of higher strategic and defense studies at the Imam Al-Hoseyn University: "Al-Zarqawi and elements of his organization's command (Ansar al-Islam) do not need prior authority to enter Iran. There are certain border points from Halabjah in the north to Ilam in the south. Al-Zarqawi and more than 20 fighters from Ansar al-Islam leaders can enter the Iranian territories through them whenever they want." The source added that Solaimani, who is in charge of the intelligence units of the Revolutionary Guards and Al-Quds Corps operating in Iraq, was answering some students' questions about the reasons for Iran's support for a person like Al-Zarqawi who is hostile to the Shiites and who was accused in the past by circles close to the regime's guide Ali Khamene'i of involvement in the assassination of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, chairman of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Solaimani said Al-Zarqawi's involvement in Al-Hakim's death was not confirmed and his actions at present moreover serve the Islamic Republic's higher interests. According to Solaimani, the establishment of a federal secular Iraq cooperating with the United States is much more dangerous than the former Ba'thist regime because the new regime will pose "a real threat to the pure Mohammedan revolutionary Islam and the velayat-e faqih", as the source reported.
"Al-Sharq al-Awsat" learned that Al-Zarqawi moved to Iran some months ago after the Al-Fallujah events and spent several weeks in a Revolutionary Guards camp in the Mahran area on the border with Iraq before leaving it to the Iraqi city of Ba'qubah with the help of Al-Quds Corps.
It is recalled that Al-Quds Corps was established during the final days of Khomeyni's rule for the purpose of hunting down the opposition figures and forces inside and outside the country. Its tasks and the limits of its responsibilities changed during the past years and it has become today responsible for the affairs of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Arab and Islamic countries in connection with the indirect war with the United States.
A former corps official revealed to "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" after he escaped to Turkey last year that Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi was in Iran and had entered Iraqi territories more than a year ago. He also asserted to this newspaper that a meeting was held last June between Al-Zarqawi and the Lebanese fugitive Imad Maghniyah in one of Al-Quds Corps' centers in Kermanshah Province west of Iran.
The source pointed out that Maghniyah played an influential role in forming the "Al-Mahdi Army" of the hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and in training its elements in camps inside Iran. The entry of Lebanese Shiite fighters into Iraq disguised as students of religion and their joining "Al-Mahdi Army" later on was supervised by Imad Maghniyah who recently underwent cosmetic surgery to change his facial features in one of the Revolutionary Guards' clinics in northern Tehran. That was the fifth operation for Maghniyah whom Western and Arab intelligence services have been hunting for years.
The source went on to say that Maghniyah maintained close ties with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second man in "Al-Qa'ida" organization, despite the recent difficulties in communicating with Al-Zawahiri. It added that Maghniyah submitted earlier this year a report to the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence chief after a visit to Iraq in which he underlined the importance of expanding the cooperation between the "Al-Mahdi Army" and Al-Zarqawi's group because Muqtada al-Sadr was losing very quickly his popularity among the Iraqi Shiites, especially in Al-Najaf city where it was observed that the Shiite families were preventing their sons from joining his militia, while his popularity in the Sunni triangle was rising. The source added that Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who opposes strongly the Revolutionary Guards' interference in Iraq's internal affairs, was recently surprised when he received a report from an official in the Iraqi Government who is a friend of Iran that included precise information backed with figures about the extent of the involvement of the Al-Quds Corps and the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence in the terrorist operations targeting Iraq's Government and people in addition to its infrastructure.
http://cobalt.carebridge.org/TIRR/DT-IRR282.htm#_Iran's_Al-Quds_Corps_Chief_Reported
Thank you very much for the information about Mugniyeh and Iran's involvement. Since this information is available for our viewing, we have to assume that our intelligence services are privy to even more details and that plans are in the works to counter these organized evil-doers. The information reveals dark and twisted minds plotting against us, yet it is all very intriguing.
