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Iran plots Ramadan infiltration in Iraq
2004-10-12
Background info here confirms what a lot of us have been saying.
PARIS — A top Iranian dissident living in Paris says up to 800 clerics and theology students from Iran are in the process of infiltrating cities in neighboring Iraq in time for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins Friday. Ayatollah Jalal Ganje'i, a prominent critic of the Iranian regime, said in an interview with The Washington Times that the influx is part of continuing efforts by Tehran's power brokers to exploit the crisis in Iraq in order to set up a sister fundamentalist Islamic republic.

The religious leaders, dispatched by the Islamic Propaganda Organization, plan to use the holy month to propagate militant Islamic views, he said, with the goal of strengthening Iraqi political groups whose philosophy and aims coincide with those of Iran's theocratic regime. The cleric said the religious leaders will take their message into Kut, Nasariyah, Amarra, Najaf, Basra and Baghdad, joining a massive network of other Iranian agents already in Iraq, many in armed underground cells.
Posted by:Mark Espinola

#3  why aren't armed - anti-blackhat insurgents being sent into Iran? Porous borders work both ways
Posted by: Frank G   2004-10-12 12:12:44 PM  

#2  Seems to me that this is an opportunity to whack 800 clerics. Don't send them home with their tails between their legs, send them home in boxes.
Posted by: remote man   2004-10-12 12:06:42 PM  

#1  Didn't al Sadr just get sent home with his tail between his legs? Truly, insanity is repeating the same action in the belief of a different outcome. November 2nd is not far away, and if Bush loses he is even more free to do as he deems necessary, as he won't have to deal with the fallout past Jan.20th. As the ancient Greek wrote, "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad."
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-10-12 6:58:19 AM  

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