Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Exile says Tehran training Iraqi militants in Iran, names senior Iraqi officials as complicit

A weapons cache found in Iraq in late February contained infrared sensors, electronic triggering devices and information about plastic explosives used in bombs that the Americans say lead back to Iran

NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Iran has been operating training programs for Iraqi Shi'ite militants at secret bases for several months as part of its efforts to destabilize Iraq, an opponent of the Iranian government said on Tuesday....

While at the camps, militants are instructed by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force and Lebanese members of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic militant group, in unconventional warfare, explosives and shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons...

He named Abu Ahmand Al-Ramisi, the present governor of Al-Muthanna Province in Iraq, along with Hadi Al-Ameri, the head of the Iraqi National Assembly's Security Committee, as key figures in the network.

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