Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/6651.htm
Reports: Syrian Military Intelligence Chief Fired Following Mughniya Assassination
Former Syrian vice president Abd Al-Halim Khaddam, who is currently a leader of the exiled Syrian opposition, said that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has exploited the assassination of senior Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniya to strike at the status of Syrian military intelligence chief Gen. Asaf Shokat.
He said that Shokat was under house arrest with a guard, and that interior security head Amid Khafez Makhlouf had been appointed to investigate the assassination in his stead.
At the same time, the Syrian opposition website Al-Haqiqa reported that Al-Assad had appointed Ali Younes head of Syrian military intelligence instead of Shokat.
Sources: Al-Mustaqbal, Lebanon; Syriatruth.org, April 6, 2008
Posted at: 2008-04-07
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1998093/posts?page=137#137
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080407/EDITORIAL/924073184
“Tehran’s murderous role”
THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL
April 7, 2008
EDITORIAL SNIPPET: “Bill Roggio, who blogs from Iraq and Afghanistan for the Longwarjournal.org, notes that Iraqi intelligence officials have said that senior Hezbollah military commander Imad Mugniyah, who was slain in Damascus two months ago, helped form the Mahdi Army in April 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein; some 300 fighters recruited from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia underwent military training with Hezbollah in Lebanon. In an August 2007 interview with the Independent, a British newspaper, Sheik al-Sadr explained the Mahdi Army’s relationship with Hezbollah this way. “We have formal links with Hezbollah, we do exchange ideas and discuss the situation facing Shi’ites in both countries,” he said. “We copy Hezbollah in the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other.”
According to U.S. military officials in Iraq, the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has played an extensive role in funnelling arms to Iraqi Shi’ite militias. Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, spokesman for the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq, on Wednesday called on the Iranian government to “fulfill its pledge to halt the flow of weapons, of training, of funding, and of other resources that the criminal groups are dependent upon here.””