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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Iranâs Spring Offensive in Iraq |
| 2004-04-05 |
| Debka so salt to taste, but offers a wider perspective on Fallujah, Sadr City, etc. with Tehran at the center of the web with Assad, Sadr, et. al. caught in the net. Itâs worth the read. New Warfront Opens in Iraq Three Months before Handover The real cause underlining the Sadr rebellion is brought to light by DEBKAfileâs intelligence and counter-terror sources. They stress that it was far from spontaneous. Indeed it was prepared well in advance to at the behest of Tehran - with the collaboration of Damascus and the Hizballah - by the Shiite master terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. Its purpose: to trigger Iranâs Spring Offensive against the Americans in Iraq. Sunday night, the young radical cleric al Sadr told cheering followers in Kufa: âFrom now on we are the beating arm of the Hizballah and Hamas in Iraqâ. The crowds, raising clenched fists, declared: âThe occupation is over! Sadr is our ruler!â Our military analysts read this as a battle cry â not only to launch the young Shiite clericâs bid for power in the whole of Iraq â but also for spreading the unrest around the Middle East at large. The Lebanese Hizballah, which controls the most effective military-terrorist force in the region and is heavily armed with an array of missiles and artillery, will not want to sit on the sidelines; likewise the Hamas and its Gaza-based âmilitary armâ, Izz e-Din al-Qassam. However, both must be guided in their next steps by the Iranian leadership topped by Ali Khamenei and the Syrian president Bashar Assad who have been holding separate emergency round the clock conferences in the last few hours.... |
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