Friday, August 13, 2004

Rift grows as Iranians caught fighting for Sadr

From The Guardian

Security officials in Baghdad were last night urgently investigating the background of 30 Iranians who were caught fighting for a rebel Shia cleric in Iraq, amid mounting concern over the involvement of the Tehran regime in the uprising. [...]

The 30 men were captured in the southern city of Kut on Wednesday and officials are trying to establish whether they have any links to Tehran.[...]

The source said two trucks laden with weapons destined for the fighters of the militant cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, had been stopped at the Iranian border on Wednesday night. [...]

He added: "There has been a continuous stream of vehicles over the last few weeks trying to ferry arms across the border from Iran.


For some reason the Guardian throws out this statement.

Foreign fighters account for only a fraction of the insurgents in detention in Iraq.

How the hell does the Guardian know that? They don't. They just threw that out because they want their readers to think there is a mass uprising in Iraq against the US.
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