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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:41 AM
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the US is funding and arming the resistance -Iran takes over Basra?
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".

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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:49 AM
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1. Oh, yeah. This will work. Another great idea
from the Great Ideas Team (TM) at the White House... (/sarcasm off)
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:51 AM
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2. I doubt this will make the 6 o'clock network news!
:-)
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:58 AM
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3. They finally ran out of US soldiers
and outsourced the contract to the local thugs.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 12:08 PM
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4. So, what if these guys decide to fight the occupation instead?
Edited on Mon Feb-14-05 12:08 PM by bemildred
(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?)
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 12:36 PM
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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!
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 01:28 PM
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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.
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