news.yahoo.com - 8/15/2008
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WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq. A senior U.S. military ...
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Iran training Iraqi hit squads
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... The Associated Press reports that Iran’s Quds force has Iraqi Shiite assassination squads in training in four or more locations. Their mission? To kill Iraqi government officials, Iraqi and American troops, and in general wreak havoc to ensure the collapse of the democratically-elected government: The officer on Wednesday provided Iraq’s national security adviser with several lists of the assassination teams’ expected targets. He said the targets include many judges but would not otherwise identify them. Iraq’s intelligence service is preparing operations to determine where ...
Axis Of Evil alive, well, and unthreatened
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Just another outrage — not to mention the apparently verboten phrase “act of war” — perpetrated by our Iranian mortal enemies that we won’t be doing one damned thing about: WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran’s elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq. One more time: when it comes to Muslim ...
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