the US is funding and arming the resistance -Iran takes over Basra?

[papau]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html


Asia Times Online has learned that in a highly clandestine operation, the US has procured Pakistan-manufactured weapons, including rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, ammunition, rockets and other light weaponry. Consignments have been loaded in bulk onto US military cargo aircraft at Chaklala airbase in the past few weeks. The aircraft arrived from and departed for Iraq.

The US-armed and supported militias in the south will comprise former members of the Ba'ath Party, which has already split into three factions, only one of which is pro-Saddam Hussein. They would be expected to receive assistance from pro-US interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord.

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Already, members of the Da'wa Party, many of whom were taught in Iran, have taken over mosques in Basra, and members of Hezbollah have heavily infiltrated the Shi'ite population, in addition to Iranian intelligence and members of the Pasdaran-i-Inqalab (Iran's Revolutionary Guards) to pave the way for vilayet-e-faqih.

To head off this threat of a Shi'ite clergy-driven religious movement, the US has, according to Asia Times Online investigations, resolved to arm small militias backed by US troops and entrenched in the population to "nip the evil in the bud".

[Dhalgren]

1. Oh, yeah. This will work. Another great idea

from the Great Ideas Team (TM) at the White House... (/sarcasm off)

[papau]

2. I doubt this will make the 6 o'clock network news!

:-)

[DulceDecorum]

3. They finally ran out of US soldiers

and outsourced the contract to the local thugs.

[bemildred]

4. So, what if these guys decide to fight the occupation instead?

(I don't think I'm buying this story, just yet. Maybe, say, this stuff is
for the Iranian resistance to use inside Iran to "destabilize it?)

[papau]

5. The CIA does plant lies - as does the Pentagon - but this helps Bush how?

then again - it is hanging out there with not even EU having similar stories today!

[bemildred]

6. Everybody lies, at least most governments do, and their agencies,

whenever it seems expedient. There are a few exceptions, to be fair about it.