Iraq Says It Has Proof Of Iranian Meddling
washingtonpost.comFound 10 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes, and 44 seconds agoBAGHDAD, May 4 -- The Iraqi government said Sunday that it has
Iraq increasingly finds itself caught between U.S. and Iran
csmonitor.comFound 10 days, 20 hours, 10 minutes, and 33 seconds agoThe US military in Iraq says Iran continues to aid militants, but Iraqis now say that they want their own evidence.
Iran to Gordon to Present the Evidence
abumuqawama.blogspot.comFound 10 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes, and 42 seconds agoFor a while now, Dr. iRack has been expecting MNF-I to provide a briefing describing Iranian lethal assisance to elements of JAM (frequently described as "special groups"). The briefing has not yet occurred, but the contours of the U. ...
Which Militia?
washingtonmonthly.comFound 10 days, 1 hour, 1 minute, and 41 seconds agoWHICH MILITIA?....Michael Gordon has a piece in the New York Times today passing along charges from (anonymous) American sources that (a) Hezbollah is in Iran training Iraqi militia fighters and (b) Iran is providing weapons to these militias. ...
Iraq backs off allegations that Iran is behind violence
mcclatchydc.comFound 10 days, 11 hours, 15 minutes, and 44 seconds agoAs the government appeared to back down from its hardening stance against Iran, four marines were killed in Anbar in the deadliest attack in the Sunni province in months. We paid a lot," Dabbagh said, referring to the eight years war between the two nations in which an estimated 1 million people died. ...
IRAN: Hakim's son on Tehran, Baghdad, Washington tangle
latimesblogs.latimes.comFound 10 days, 3 hours, 1 minute, and 53 seconds ago"The Iraqi security issue is not separated from other issues in the Middle East," he said. The government is authorized to give its opinion or assessment about these allegations. In fact, you should ask the official spokesman of the Iraqi government.
Great News!
julescrittenden.comFound 10 days, 12 hours, 52 minutes, and 5 seconds agoNYT reports that Hezbollah is training Iraqis militias at a secret site near Tehran. You know what this means, right? (more…)
Iraq First Lady Narrowly Escapes death; Baghdad Equivocates on Role of Iran
juancole.comFound 10 days, 20 hours, 6 minutes, and 51 seconds agoA roadside bomb almost killed Iraq's first lady on Sunday in Baghdad, striking her car and wounding three of her bodyguards. Bush is asking for another $70 bn . for next year, most of it for the Iraq War. ...
Iran Suspends Talks With U.S. Over Security in Iraq
foxnews.comFound 10 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes, and 48 seconds agoIran said Monday it would not hold a new round of talks with the U.S. on security in Iraq until American forces end their current assault against Shiite militias.
Iran supports disarming of militias in Iraq-report
alertnet.orgFound 10 days, 21 hours, and 45 seconds agoTEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Iran backs efforts by the Iraqi government to disarm militiamen, an Iranian news agency said on Sunday, after Baghdad said a delegation was sent to Tehran last week to urge it to stop supporting Shi'ite militias. Iran confirmed discussions took place with the visiting Iraqi ...
washingtonpost.com
BAGHDAD, May 4 -- The Iraqi government said Sunday that it has "concrete evidence" Iran is fomenting violence in Iraq and that a high-level panel had been formed to document the proof.
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rferl.org
The Iraqi delegation reportedly met with Qasim Suleimani, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps' Qods Force, on May 1, and was expected to meet again with him on May 2. It has also been linked to the training of Iraqi militiamen. He confirmed, however, that al-Sadr's representatives have ...
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latimes.com
At first, spokesman Ali Dabbagh backs away from accusations over its neighbor supplying Shiite militants with arms. "We have no choice but to have good relations with the neighboring countries," Dabbagh said. But if true, they would suggest that Iran had not kept a promise to Maliki to help cut the supply ...
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thinkprogress.org
In remarks broadcast on Israeli television today, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dismissed any near future war with Iran , saying that because of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, "it would be a very significant challenge for the United States right now to get into a third conflict in that part of the world ."
Militants from Hezbollah "have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
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digbysblog.blogspot.com
Now Iran is supposed to be hiring Hezbollah to conduct classes in terrorism for Iraqis in Iran so they can go back to Iraq and create havoc. Got that? Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government. And how do they know this? An American official said the account of Hezbollah's role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately.
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warandpiece.com
AbdulAziz Hakim's son Mohsen Hakim speaks with the LAT from his Tehran offices about Iran, Iraq, and the US. "The many problems between Iran and Iraq and between Iran and U.S. should be settled through consultation and negotiations. Nothing can be solved by openly and publicly accusing each other of interference."
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bloodandtreasure.typepad.com
A top Iraqi official said Sunday there was no conclusive evidence that Shiite extremists have been directly supplied with some Iranian arms as alleged by the United States.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraq does not want trouble with any country, "especially Iran."
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prwatch.org
New York Times military reporter Michael Gordon , "who contributed several false stories about Iraqi WMD in the runup to the U.S. attack in Iraq ," has been writing about Iran's alleged involvement in attacks against U.S. servicemembers in Iraq. Gordon's latest article, " Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say ," is "based solely on unnamed sources," notes Greg Mitchell. It's also contradicted by an article from McClatchy's Baghdad bureau. McClatchy reports that the Iraqi government "seemed to distance itself from U.
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theleftcoaster.com
actually behaving really really really badly. McClatchy :
The Iraqi Government seemed to distance itself from U.S. accusations towards Iran Sunday saying it would not be forced into conflict with its Shiite neighbor. And Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ordered the formation of a committee to look into foreign intervention in Iraq.
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boomantribune.com
, or the killer cyclone that devastated Myanmar .
Hell, I'd even suffer through an entire day of election related nonsense, if they'd just spend 10 minutes on the great voter purge of over a million people in Indiana in addition to all the other trivial blather that represents their standard election night fare.
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strata-sphere.com
Michael Gordon of the NY Times notes today the Iran has allowed military training camps to be set up near Tehran where Iraqi militia fighters are trained by Hezbollah trainers (trained by Iranians originally, of course):
Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
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freerepublic.com
The Washington Post ^ | May 5, 2008 | By Amit R. Paley
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jihadwatch.org
A new twist on the well known problem of Iranian support for jihadists in Iraq. Well known, that is, to everyone but the Iraqi government, which is looking for more evidence that Iranian interference is still ongoing. "Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say," by Michael R. Gordon for the New York Times , May 5:
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moonofalabama.org
Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say
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nytimes.com
Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say
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americablog.com
This NYT article on Iraq today is a good example of why it's so frustrating to try to follow news on Iraq through corporate media. Michael Gordon, who does some really good stuff on Iraq and often seems to fully understand the intricacies of the conflict, delivers up what reads like the stenography for which reporters are so often criticized by experts in various fields. In this case, the Bush administration is once again accusing Iran of causing problems in Iraq, this time by reportedly bringing in Hezbollah (an Arab, Lebanon-based Shia group formed to fight Israel and now a significant political and military force in Lebanon) officials to train Iraqi militia members.
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armchairgeneralist.typepad.com
Let's be clear - the military analysts are the professionals here, not the news media. Unless you want to rely on the news media to do anything other than parrot what the Bush administration tells it , unless you think the media can tell the differences between various Shi-ite militias and Sunni militias, you better believe we need people who can summarize what is really going on within the 2-3 minutes time that they're allotted.
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freedemocracy.blogspot.com
TEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Iran backs efforts by the Iraqi government to disarm militiamen, an Iranian news agency said on Sunday, after Baghdad said a delegation was sent to Tehran last week to urge it to stop supporting Shi'ite militias.
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charmingjustcharming.blogspot.com
So, what else is new? Hezbollah is training Iraqi terrorists in Iran? Why does this not surprise me?
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thepiratescove.us
Barack Obama's buddies the Iranians are still working against Iraqi peace. When will he pop on over an tell them to stop in a one on one conversation?
Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
An American official said the account of Hezbollah's role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately.
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undispatch.com
>> Myanmar - Cyclone Nargis slammed into the Irrawaddy delta on Saturday, leaving 4,000 dead, 3,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands without shelter. The nation's military junta made a rare appeal for international assistance. Relief agencies met at the UN's offices in Bangkok to coordinate their response. Myanmar is scheduled to hold a referendum on a new constitution next week, and the government's response to the cyclone could shape that vote. >> Iraq - According to four Shi'ite militiamen captured in Iraq and questioned separately, Hezbollah has been training Iraqi militiamen at a base near Tehran.
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bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com
The headlines and article tone varies from the very factual Reuters to the more accusatory WaPo to the almost breathless NYTimes piece by Michael Gordon (famous for reprinting administration cases.)
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thoughtsonline.blogspot.com
Iran supports the terrorists attacking us in Iraq... and Bush does nothing, so much so that Iran refuses to even meet to 'discuss' the issue. Pakistan continues to provide a safe haven for terrorists attacking us in Afghanistan... and Bush does nothing. The Palestinians continue to attack Israel... and Bush does worse than nothing, as he blames Israel and demands Israel makes even further concessions to the Palestinians, all in the name of keeping the 'peace process' moving forward. North Korea continues its nuclear programs.
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csmonitor.com
Iraq says it has proof of Iranian meddling ( The Washington Post )
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palestinianpundit.blogspot.com
Framing Hezbollah and Iran: Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say
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ruthgroup.org
Several related articles appeared in the last few days.
On the New York Times Monday edition appears a Michael Gordon article.
Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
… Material from the interrogations was given to the Iraqi government, along with other data about captured Iranian arms, before it sent a delegation to Tehran last week to discuss allegations of Iranian aid to militia groups.
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atlargely.com
Posted By Cernig
Michael "Judy In Drag" Gordon today re-earned his place as the Bush administration's stenographer-in-chief with an anonymously-sourced report alleging that Iran is using Hizbullah as a proxy to train other proxies among Iraq's Shiite militants. Glenn Greenwald writes: As usual with Gordon's articles, nothing is done here other than uncritically repeating Bush administration claims under the cover of anonymity. Virtually every paragraph in this article is nothing more a mindless recitation of uncorroborated assertions which he copies from Bush officials and then weaves into a news narrative, with the phrase "American officials say" tacked on at the end or the phrase "according to officials" unobtrusively interspersed in the middle.
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warincontext.org
Iraq: Al-Sadr refuses to meet Baghdad delegation In Iran
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phoenixwoman.wordpress.com
…they were steadfastly ignoring this bit of news :
The Iraqi Government seemed to distance itself from U.S. accusations towards Iran Sunday saying it would not be forced into conflict with its Shiite neighbor. And Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ordered the formation of a committee to look into foreign intervention in Iraq.
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spiiderweb.blogspot.com
Iraq backs off allegations that Iran is behind violence
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democracyarsenal.org
This LA Times article perfectly encapsulates the unenviable position in which the Iraqi government currently finds itself - stuck in a tug of war between Iran and the U.S. in which there is little incentive to take sides . Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's spokesman backed away Sunday from Iraqi officials' accusations of Iranian interference, saying that a committee had been formed to determine whether there is merit to U.S. charges that its eastern neighbor is arming and training Shiite Muslim militants here.
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the4thworldwar.blogspot.com
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blogrevolution.com
Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say
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freedomszone.com
Jules says this is great news: It means when they whack that site, they'll be taking out a lot of Hezbollah scum along with the al-Quds scum and the future Shiite death squads of Iraq scum. If they ever stop the blah blah blah, that is. . Details here ....
The U.S can't allow Iran to kill American troops indefinitely, be it by proxy or otherwise. With so much now in the open about Iran's ever-increasing role in the violence in Iraq, and even an apparent accusation coming out from a former Iranian president that the country's hard-line rulers are engineering unrest abroad, I wouldn't be surprised to see targeted attacks on selected sites in Iran - when the time is "ripe" - which could be sooner than we think.
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hyscience.com
Jules says this is great news: It means when they whack that site, they'll be taking out a lot of Hezbollah scum along with the al-Quds scum and the future Shiite death squads of Iraq scum. If they ever stop the blah blah blah, that is. . Details here ....
The U.S can't allow Iran to kill American troops indefinitely, be it by proxy or otherwise. With so much now in the open about Iran's ever-increasing role in the violence in Iraq, and even an apparent accusation coming out from a former Iranian president that the country's hard-line rulers are engineering unrest abroad, I wouldn't be surprised to see targeted attacks on selected sites in Iran - when the time is "ripe" - which could be sooner than we think.
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solomonia.com
Update: And, of course, Hizballah is involved in training Iraqi militias in Iran .
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irannuclearwatch.blogspot.com
Los Angeles Times reporter Ramin Mostaghim interviewed Mohsen Hakim, son of leader of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) Abdelaziz Hakim, in Tehran on May 3, 2008. The whole interview is transcribed on the Los Angeles Times blog on Middle East issues, " Babylon and Beyond ." Below are key excerpts from the interview regarding Iran's role in Iraq.
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d-day.blogspot.com
This is also taking shape in the way that Iranian involvement in Iraq continues to be presented to the public. Today's Michael Gordon article claiming Hezbollah training facilities inside Iran that are helping Iraqi Shiite militias, is a White House press release masquerading as a NYT article. The presence of training camps in Iran would justify American belligerence and provide a target for airstrikes outside of the nuclear question. But this article doesn't provide evidence corroborated by anyone outside of government sources.
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turcopundit.blogspot.com
Russia's dangerous decline
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chris-floyd.com
Gordon's latest is a classic of this sinister genre. He dutifully stovepipes claims by the usual unnamed "American officials" who tell him that Iranian agents have revealed that Hezbollah is training anti-American Iraqi Shiites inside Iran. This information, we are told, comes from "interrogations" of four Shiite militia members who were captured by American forces last year.
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rhymeswithright.mu.nu
Funny, isn't it, that those on the Left argue that there is no connection between Iran and terrorism in Iraq .
Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
An American official said the account of Hezbollah's role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately.
The United States has long charged that the Iranians were training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran, which Iran has consistently denied, and there have been previous reports about Hezbollah operatives in Iraq.
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mainandcentral.org
Cool, first we're relying on the fruits of interrogations, then, impressions from snippets of conversations in other dialects and languages... Wow, how much more credible proof do you need than that to gin up another war, eh? But, it's not just Gordon... The WSJ's Fouad
Ajami , an early supporter of the Iraqi 'project', chimes in.
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jihadwatcher.com
michellemalkin.com : Obama's sole venture into limited government: stopping the federal mob probe of the Teamsters
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claudepate.com
offered by world powers that violated its right to nuclear technology, ruling out a precondition to halt atomic work the West believes is aimed at making bombs. Moreover, the Islamic theocracy will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
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wethefree.blogspot.com
How will the administration's critics handle this one , I wonder. Does it go in the "Bush has handed Iraq to Iran" file, like that McClatchy expose last week about the Quds Force, or in the "Bush is exaggerating Iran's influence as a pretext for war" file? Since it's based on military sources and was written by Michael Gordon, Judy Miller's co-author on the Times's stories about Iraqi WMD before the invasion, I'm guessing the latter. Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
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jehasnail.blogspot.com
is being threatened with " Red Lines ". Only now the scene is muddied , and the message more subtle ; the Iranian overlords are over-extending a useful franchise , so they can only move auxiliary pawns around in Lebanon.
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bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com
Then, we heard this:
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indistinctunion.wordpress.com
From Dr. I-Rack at in the indispensable blog Abu Muqawama.
The typical cast of characters that the military-administration is using to get its story out.
Michael Gordon in that awful uber-liberal left-wing anti-America, nerve center of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, The NyTimes. Fouad Ajami in the Wall Street Journal.
To quote Hot Shots Part Deux: "War it's fantastic."
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To reiterate, the Badr Corps/Supreme Council/Dawa crew (aka the Iraqi Govt) were all created in Iran and are deeply entrenched in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
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elvisberg.wordpress.com
Oh, good, an anonymously sourced article by Michael Gordon relating alarmist government claims that evil foreigners are nefariously coming to get us . What could possibly go wrong ?
A grown-up wrote this more balanced article on a related story for the LA Times:
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's spokesman backed away Sunday from Iraqi officials' accusations of Iranian interference, saying that a committee had been formed to determine whether there is merit to U.S. charges that its eastern neighbor is arming and training Shiite Muslim militants here.
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prawnblog.blogspot.com
Everything in the article comes from a Presidential administration that has shown a very deep interest in launching a war against Iran. As Glenn Greenwald points out:
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