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ABC News: Intelligence Links Iran to Iraqi Insurgent Weapons
Summary with new information since yesterday, from articles in English
The fate of the five sparked disagreement, with the White House overruling the State Department on the issue, the Washington Post reported .
The US says the men seized in a January raid on Iran's consulate in Irbil are linked to the Revolutionary Guard .
Vice President Dick Cheney's office said their capture signalled that Iranian activities were monitored and their operatives at risk of detention, the daily said .
The meeting concluded that the five men should remain in custody and undergo the same six-monthly review used for other foreign detainees held in Iraq, the newspaper quoted officials as saying .
After intense internal debate, the President 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 4)
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 4)
The decision is certain to further irritate Tehran, which has ratcheted up pressure on the United States and on its allies and even its friends in the Iraqi government to win freedom for the Irbil five . (article 4)
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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)
- US 'will keep Iranian detainees' (BBC News, 04/14/2007, 247 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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