Mahdi Army fighters gesture as they stand next to a burning Iraq armored police vehicle. (Nabil Al-Jurani/AP For the Guardian)
The Iranian government paid Iraqi insurgents hundreds of thousands of American dollars to kill British soldiers in southern Iraq according to a new report.
The Telegraph and ROP reported:
The allegations are contained in a confidential "field report" written by a British officer who served in Basra during one of the most dangerous periods of the conflict. The report, which has never been made public, shows the full level of Iran's involvement in the insurgency for the first time.Yesterday Former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told Iran's Press TV that, "Floundering in the quagmire of Iraq has dispelled the myth of Washington's grandeur."
The document states that the Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) – also known as the Mahdi Army – one of the most violent insurgent groups operating in Basra, used money from Iran to recruit and pay young unemployed men up to $300 (£150) a month to carry out attacks against the British. The findings have been passed to the highest levels in the military.
The leak comes at a time of rising tension between Iran and the international community, as Tehran continues to stonewall UN inquiries into allegations that it has carried out research to develop a nuclear weapon.
The report, "Life Under Fire in the Old State Building", details the activities of British troops under the command of Major Christopher Job, of the 2nd Lancashire Regiment, between November 2006 and March 2007.
In the report, Major Job discloses that in the course of five months his base was attacked 350 times...
Twenty-seven members of the Armed Forces died and dozens were seriously injured in southern Iraq between November 2006 and May 2007, the period that Major Job covers in his report.
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ReplyDeleteleak??
hah!!
as if no one had a clue..
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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"Floundering in the quagmire of Iraq has dispelled the myth of Washington's grandeur."
ReplyDeleteActually, just the opposite has happened.
The myth of the American paper tiger has been dispelled. Muslims no longer see the U.S. as soft, weak, and afraid to take casualties.
This document was leaked as part of the slow buildup of evidence against Iran, which will be used to justify long-overdue military strikes against the regime.
Petraeus will be the new head of CENTCOM soon, and he's said that we can't win in Iraq until we stop Iran from interfering.
A week-long campaign of air strikes on the Revolutionary Guards and the mullahs' private estates ought to do the job.
"Floundering in the quagmire of Iraq has dispelled the myth of Washington's grandeur."
ReplyDeleteThe several thousand Mahdi Army militants killed, wounded, captured or missing due to recent Iraqi and U.S. offensives in Basra and Sadr City were not immediately available for comment to the Iranian assertion.
/self-satisfied smirk.
I wonder how many bunker busters we have available, and how many useful targets there are in Iran.
ReplyDeleteToday's Count
ReplyDeleteIraq: 19,429 through 9/22/2007
Iraq: 1,152 since 9/22/2007
Afghanistan: 3,667 since 1/1/2006
tom w says: "Petraeus will be the new head of CENTCOM soon, and he's said that we can't win in Iraq until we stop Iran from interfering."...
Hmmm, not to worry, Hussein the Inane will talk Iran down...LOL!
To compile a list of foreign soldiers killed by the Iranian regime or their terror proxies would be bad enough, much less ordinary citizens that have been maimed, wounded and killed.
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