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Monday 18 August 2008IRAN TRAINING IRAQI SHIITE HIT MEN: US
www.nypost.com Iraqi Shiite death squads are receiving sophisticated training in Iran, then returning with hit lists of Iraqi officials and US troops marked for assassination, officials said yesterday. The number of killers-in-waiting may exceed 1,000, and a senior US military-intelligence officer in Baghdad has provided Iraq's national security adviser with several lists of targets, including many judges. Iraqi intelligence is trying to determine where and when the death squads will try to sneak back into the country. The US military wants Iraq to protect known targets. Wanted posters of suspected leaders are being posted around Baghdad, the officer said. The United States is also encouraging Iraq to confront Iran through diplomatic channels. The assassins are expected to return by October. The officer said the training was believed to be going on in at least four locations: Ahvaz, Mashhad, Qom and Tehran. He added that the number of "special group criminals," the US name for Iraqi fighters sponsored by Iran, was estimated to be in the hundreds, possibly more than 1,000. The training camps are believed to be directed by Brig. Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander, with the approval of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The training is said to include how to conduct reconnaissance to pinpoint targets, small-arms and weapons training, small-unit tactics, and terror-cell operations and communications. The assassins also learn to use bombs packed with penetrators that can rip through armored vehicles, along with other improvised explosive devices, the officer said. Lebanese Hezbollah, whose members speak Arabic, conducts much of the training since Iranians are Persian and speak Farsi. Many of the fighters fled to Iran last spring after Iraq cracked down on militia sanctuaries in Basra, Baghdad's Sadr City district, Amarah, and Diyala province, the officer said. One possible reason the special groups moved out is the decline in the number of fatal roadside bombs bearing Iran's signature explosive design, from 55 in March to 17 in July to four as of Aug. 13, according to US military charts obtained by The Associated Press. |
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