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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.””


413 posted on 04/07/2008 10:44:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3529048,00.html

“Newspaper: Israeli drill delays Mugniyah report”

SNIPPET: “London-based Arabic publication reports that Syria, Lebanon delaying publication of report on assassination of Hizbullah commander due to tension generated by Israel’s wide-scale Home Front Command drill”

Roee Nahmias
Published: 04.08.08, 11:35 / Israel News

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The London based Arabic publication, al-Quds al-Arabi, reported Tuesday that Syria is delaying the publication of its report on the assassination of Hizbullah leader Imad Mugniyah, which was scheduled for Sunday, due to tension and fears generated in both Syria and Lebanon by the wide-scale Home Front Command drill taking place in Israel.

Publication of this report, senior Damascus officials have indicated, could do serious damage to Syria as it would expose the involvement of Arab intelligence officials, as well as that of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese personnel in the Mugniyah assassination.

Lebanese sources close to Hizbullah noted that Syrian security personnel have managed to track down the owners of two vehicles involved in the assassination and have managed to identify them.”


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