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Hezbollah Training Iraqi Militants In Iran?
May 5, 2008 · Mustapha Hamoui
According to a front page piece in today’s New York Times, Hezbollah are training Iraqi militia fighters in Iranian camps.
Four captured Iraqi militia members, in separate confessions, have said that they were trained by Hezbollah.
The captured men described themselves in the accounts as part of a class of 16 militants who crossed into Iran from southern Iraq and were taken to a camp near Tehran, where they studied in a classroom and in the field. Some had been in Iran several times as part of a program that American officials said was aimed at turning them into “master trainers” and which could last several years.
Depending on where you stand, this is either further proof of the disruptiveness of Hezbollah to the peace and security in the region, or just another bit of an orchestrated push by the American conspirators against Hezbollah that started by Mr. Jumblat’s airport allegations and ended in Iraq.