It’s not just US soldiers the regime is killing.
Mahdi Army fighters gesture as they stand next to a burning Iraq armored police vehicle. (Nabil Al-Jurani/AP For the Guardian)
The Iranian government paid Iraqi insurgents hundreds of thousands of American dollars to kill British soldiers in southern Iraq according to a new report.
The Telegraph and ROP reported:
The allegations are contained in a confidential “field report” written by a British officer who served in Basra during one of the most dangerous periods of the conflict. The report, which has never been made public, shows the full level of Iran’s involvement in the insurgency for the first time.
The document states that the Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) – also known as the Mahdi Army – one of the most violent insurgent groups operating in Basra, used money from Iran to recruit and pay young unemployed men up to $300 (£150) a month to carry out attacks against the British. The findings have been passed to the highest levels in the military.
The leak comes at a time of rising tension between Iran and the international community, as Tehran continues to stonewall UN inquiries into allegations that it has carried out research to develop a nuclear weapon.
The report, “Life Under Fire in the Old State Building”, details the activities of British troops under the command of Major Christopher Job, of the 2nd Lancashire Regiment, between November 2006 and March 2007.
In the report, Major Job discloses that in the course of five months his base was attacked 350 times…
Twenty-seven members of the Armed Forces died and dozens were seriously injured in southern Iraq between November 2006 and May 2007, the period that Major Job covers in his report.
Yesterday Former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told Iran’s Press TV that, “Floundering in the quagmire of Iraq has dispelled the myth of Washington’s grandeur.”
