[Mb-civic] FW: Iraqi forces arrest 30 armed agents from Iran

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:34:14 -0400
Subject: Iraqi forces arrest 30 armed agents from Iran    

Iraqi forces arrest 30 armed agents from Iran    

Sun. 10 Apr 2005


Iran Focus

Baghdad, Apr. 10 - More than 30 armed agents dispatched from Iran were
arrested in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, according to sources
close to the Iranian opposition People¹s Mojahedin.

Sources said that the 30 agents were mercenaries of the elite Qods
(Jerusalem) Force branch of Iran¹s Revolutionary Guards Corps.

³In one incident six individuals, of which five were Iranian and the
other was an Iraqi, were apprehended by the Iraqi National Guard at a
checkpoint near Maqdadiya in Iraq¹s Diyala province. Those arrested
were carrying light arms and RPG rockets, which they intended to use in
operations in Diyala², the opposition source revealed.

³In a separate incident 25 mercenaries carrying out orders from Iran¹s
Fajr Garrison were upheld by Iraqi security forces. A report by runaway
mercenaries from the same network sent to the Fajr Garrison, a copy of
which was obtained by the Iranian Resistance, said, ŒThose who have
been arrested had a hand in the assassination of the former Governor of
Baghdad. Some of them have already confessed to a number of
assassinations in Baghdad during their interrogations², the source
added.

Fajr Garrison, alongside Ramazan Garrison, near the city of Kermanshah
in western Iran, has for long been an operational base of the
Revolutionary Guards and its elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force.

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