Private guards detained in Iraq

[DoYouEverWonder]

10 April 2006

Iraqi police have detained 31 private security guards in a raid the interior ministry said had netted sophisticated weaponry that was meant to be used for attacks.

The staff of the Al-Forat security company were "arrested as they planned to carry out terrorist activities against innocent people", the ministry said in a statement on Monday.

The 31 employees were picked up from the central Hamra hotel, which houses the offices of a number of foreign firms, including media organisations, the ministry said without specifying the day of the arrests.

Bayan Jabr Solagh, the Iraqi interior minister, said Al-Forat "does not have a licence from our ministry" to operate as a security firm and charged that some of its detained employees had confessed to participating in violence.

"We discovered a lot of weapons including sophisticated rifles usually used by snipers, and also rocket-propelled grenades," the minister told state television.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/679EEFB8-9BD1-4CAB-94C7-D3426F9D63B3.htm

Wonder where these thugs got their training and funding?

[mom cat]

1. You ask a very good question: Who is bankrolling this?

Any guesses? I sure have my suspicions.

[rodeodance]

2. maybe this is why Bush had to defer to Rummy yesterday?? He could

not answer the question from the audiance (related to this)

[HuffleClaw]

5. what question ?

[rodeodance]

3. k and n

[rodeodance]

4. k

[OregonBlue]

6. Who is Al-Forat Security, found reference to Al-Forat Television

Al-Forat television, run by a Shi'ite political party, showed the ageing and reclusive Sistani flanked by his three most senior colleagues in the holy city of Najaf after Sistani called for peaceful protests following the attack in Samarra.