President Bush’s newly announced “kill or capture” policy with regards to Iranian operatives in Iraq will yield a significant number of potential targets, according to the main exiled Iranian opposition group.
Agence France Presse, Berlin – The main exiled Iranian opposition group published a list of nearly 32,000 Iraqis who it said were “agents of the mullahs” employed by Iran to destabilize its neighbor.
At a news conference in Berlin, the spokesman of the German chapter of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Javad Dabiran, also accused the Islamic republic of “sending millions of dollars in cash to Iraq each month” as well as arms.
Dabiran said the agents were employed by the Qods force, which is affiliated with Iran’s elite ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards.
He said the NCRI had obtained the list of 31,690 members, which only included people “directly enlisted by the Qods force in Iran”.
The document includes the name of each fighter in Arabic and Farsi, his bank account number and the amount he received in each month in rials, Dabiran said
Although the previous “catch and release” policy was replaced with the current aggressive strategy last fall, we are only finding out about it in today’s news reports.
Also, an update in an unrelated story, The Kerbala attack. Omar at Iraq the Model suspects that this may have been an inside job, which points the finger at al Sadr and his Iranian puppeteers. (h/t n2l)
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