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ABC News: Intelligence Links Iran to Iraqi Insurgent Weapons
Summary from United States, from articles in English
[UPDATED] (see summary with new information since yesterday)
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Fast food chelo kebab stands and souvenir shops, with wallet-size portraits of the 7th century martyr Imam Hussein, crowd outside the colossal gold and blue domes of the Hazrat Masumeh shrine. (article 1)
Here, in a city that is the revered seat of Iran's powerful Shiite Muslim clergy and home to 52 Islamic seminaries, women in black chadors emerge from late-model Mercedes-Benzes with tinted windows. (article 1)
Seasoned guerrilla fighters said large numbers of Mahdi Army volunteers have gone to a base near Tehran for instruction in how to shoot down helicopters and destroy armored vehicles. (article 2)
The Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has frequently battled against U.S. and British forces in Iraq, most recently in Diwaniya. (article 2)
The militia, estimated to range up to 20,000 men, has also been linked to death-squad killings of Sunnis and political assassinations. (article 2)
After intense internal debate, the Bush administration has decided to hold on to five Iranian Revolutionary Guard intelligence agents captured in Iraq, overruling a State Department recommendation to release them, according to U.S. officials. (article 3)
The five, seized in a Jan. 11 raid by U.S. forces in the Kurdish city of Irbil, are at the center of increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran. (article 3)
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Iran, Mahdi, Iranian, Iraqi, Army |
Source articles
- Islam on the Internet gains popularity in Iran (baltimoresun.com, 04/15/2007, 890 words)
- ?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> (sfgate.com, 04/15/2007, 1324 words)
- WP: U.S. refuses to free Iranian agents (msnbc.msn.com, 04/14/2007, 790 words)
- ABC News: Intelligence Links Iran to Iraqi Insurgent Weapons (ABCNews, 04/16/2007, 21 words)
- ABC News: Iran Keeps the Provocations Coming (ABCNews, 04/16/2007, 22 words)
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