FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Iranian-trained army in Iraq
40,000 ex-POW Shiites armed, prepared for Islamic revolution

Posted: April 26, 2003

1:00 a.m. Eastern

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Iran has armed and trained some 40,000 Shiite Iraqi fighters - most 
of whom are former prisoners of war captured during the Iran-Iraq 
war - and sent them to Iraq to foment an Islamic revolution, Joseph 
Farah's G2 Bulletin reports. 

The online intelligence newsletter says this small army represents 
the vanguard of Iran's effort to subvert the U.S.-led liberation 
of Iraq and use the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime for its 
own ends. 

"Ayatollah Mohammed Bakir Khakim is on record pledging more than 
once to his followers a plan to impose Islamic rule over Iraq with the 
help of Iran," reports G2 Bulletin. "The Tehran ayatollahs, or the 
Pasadran, the powerful revolutionary guard, repeatedly have been telling 
the Iraqis they would be their legitimate allies and partners. In such a 
scenario, there is no room for the U.S. The coalition that liberated Iraq 
is seen by the Iraqi Shiite militants and their Iranian sponsors as a tool 
for handing Iraq over to them without the need to use a massive force of 
their own." 

The report says U.S. war planners were caught off-guard last week 
by a massive rally of as many as 1 million Shiites in southern Iraq 
cities - some celebrating the demise of Hussein, others protesting 
the continued presence of U.S. troops. 

G2 Bulletin quotes a CIA source as saying the role of the Iranian 
security apparatus in Iraq was identified in the mid-1990s as a force 
to compete fiercely with the U.S. should the Hussein regime collapse. 

Shiites represent some 60 percent of the Iraqi population. Neighboring 
Iran is the only Shiite- governed nation in the world. 

Meanwhile, the report says, U.S. military officials like Lt. Gen. David 
McKiernan are attributing the massive Shiite uprising in Karbala and 
elsewhere "as part of democracy in work." 

"Right now the Shiite and any Iranian-influenced Shiite actions are not 
an overt threat to coalition forces," said McKiernan. "We're watching all 
these competing interests." 

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer last week said the goal of the 
U.S. in Iraq is to establish "an Islamic democracy." 

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