Iran ID’ed Working With Iraq Militants

US arrests Hezbollah go-between in Iraq; cites training camps in Iran
By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 2, 2007 8:00 AM CDT
Iran ID’ed Working With Iraq Militants
A US officer places a board showing a breakaway Shiite group leader Qais al-Kazaali, a former spokesman for cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,and his brother Ali al-Khazaali before a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 2, 2007. al-Khazaali brothers were captured in March this year with a senior Lebanese...   (Associated Press)

The US military has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of aiding Iraqi militants in a devastating January attack and of using Hezbollah as a go-between to arm violent Shiites in that country. In March coalition forces arrested a Hezbollah operative suspected of liaising between Iran and a group led by a former Moqtada al-Sadr deputy, the AP reports.

The suspect , Ali Mussa Dakdouk, was carrying details on the Karbala government building where disguised militants killed five US soldiers, as well as instructions for terrorist techniques and a personal diary reporting meetings with militants. In announcements  yesterday, the military also disclosed three training camps near Tehran, where they said small groups of Iraqi militants were being prepared to fight. (More militant stories.)

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