Iranian force’s long ties to Al Qaeda

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Iranian force’s long ties to Al Qaeda

Group operates independently of Iran’s elected leaders

By Dana Priest and Douglas Farah
THE WASHINGTON POST

Oct. 14 — The elite Iranian force believed to be protecting Saad bin Laden and two dozen al Qaeda leaders is one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ five branches, and has been given the mission of “exporting the Islamic revolution” by training, arming and collaborating with foreign terrorist groups — even those who do not share Iran’s fundamentalist Shiite brand of Islam.

THE JERUSALEM Force, also known as the Qods Force, is highly trained and well-funded. It has provided instruction to more than three dozen Shiite and Sunni “foreign Islamic militant groups in paramilitary, guerrilla and terrorism” tactics, according to a recent U.S. intelligence analysis.

Groups including Hezbollah, or Party of God; the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas); and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have received arms and training at one of several specialized sites in Iran, according to that document.

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The group has also maintained ties with the al Qaeda terrorist network for more than a decade, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials. Senior al Qaeda leaders first met and formed a tactical alliance with the nascent Jerusalem Force in Sudan in the early 1990s, according to intelligence officials. The group was creating terrorist training camps there at the same time that Osama bin Laden had begun to create his own financial and training infrastructure.





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[LittleApple81]

1. Oh...here we go. SO WHERE IS OSAMA!!!!! DON'T USE TRANSFERENCE

TO JUSTIFY ANOTHER WAR!!!

[WingNOT]

2. Hmmm... and who funded Al Q in the first place...?

Would that be the CIA desparate to give the USSR a bloody nose in Afghanistan ?

[Resistance Is Futile]

3. I hear a drumbeat

and I see brownshirts.

Off to war the Texas Fascists march again.