NCRI – The largest disclosure of classified documents in US history by WikiLeaks on Iraq confirm that the Iranian regime has been directly involved in violent and terrorist operations in Iraq, the Washington Times wrote on Tuesday.
According to the paper, “Field reports made public by the website WikiLeaks on Friday show that U.S. military intelligence agencies had many strands of evidence revealing that Iran provided paramilitary training to Shiite Muslim insurgents at the height of the civil war in Iraq.”
“In one case, the military circulated a Dec. 22, 2006, warning that a group known as Jaish al-Mahdi planned to kidnap U.S. soldiers. The man planning the operation, Sheik Azhar al-Dulaimi, was trained by Hezbollah terrorists near the Iranian city of Qom, the document stated. Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based militia that was founded, trained and funded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
The Washington Times quoted Kenneth Katzman, a Gulf affairs specialist at the Congressional Research Service, as saying, “This confirms the degree of operational involvement the Iranian Revolutionary Guard used in anti-U.S. operations in Iraq.”
“It confirms the degree to which Iran was involved in operations that directly targeted U.S. forces,” Mr. Katzman was quoted as saying.
