Thursday, June 21, 2007

Petraeus Awakening

Who was behind the kidnapping of five Britons in Baghdad last month and
what is being done to free them?


"We think that it is the same network that killed our soldiers in Kerbala
in an operation back in January. We killed the head of that network less
than a week before the operation that detained those British civilians. It
was already planned and carried out by his followers. It is a secret cell of
Jaish al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army) not all of which are under control of Moqtadr
al-Sadr. That is the assessment at this point."


“They are not rank and file Jaish al-Mahdi. They are trained in Iran, equipped
with Iranian (weapons), and advised by Iran. The Iranian involvement here we
have found to be much, much more significant that we thought before. They
have since about the summer of 2004 played a very, very important role in
training in Iran, funding, arming."

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