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U.S.: Iran using Hezbollah to arm Iraq militants

BAGHDAD - Iran is using the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a �proxy� to arm Shiite militants in Iraq and Tehran�s Quds force had prior knowledge of a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans died, a U.S. general said Monday.

Also on Monday, the U-S military is reporting the deaths of two more U-S soldiers in Iraq as July gets under way. The military says the soldiers were killed in separate shooting attacks in Baghdad on Sunday. In one incident, a U.S.-Iraqi patrol was hit by a roadside bomb, then gunmen opened fire. The second soldier was killed when gunmen attacked his patrol.

Since the war began in March 2003, three-thousand-579 members of the U-S military have been killed.

U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner said a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, Ali Mussa Dakdouk, was captured March 20 in southern Iraq. Bergner said Dakdouk served for 24 years in Hezbollah and was �working in Iraq as a surrogate for the Iranian Quds force.�

The general also said that Dakdouk was a liaison between the Iranians and a breakaway Shiite group led by Qais al-Kazaali, a former spokesman for cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Bergner said al-Kazaali�s group carried out the January attack against a provincial government building in Karbala and that the Iranians assisted in preparations.

Help from Quds?
Al-Khazaali and his brother Ali al-Khazaali, both captured in March, have told U.S. interrogators that they �could not have conducted it (the Karbala attack) without support from the Quds force,� Bergner said.

Documents captured with al-Khazaali showed that the Quds Force had developed detailed information on the U.S. position at the government building, including �shift changes and defense� and shared this information with the attackers, the general said.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19543387/

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U.S. alleges Iran using Lebanese Hezbollah as 'proxy' in Iraq

By The Associated Press

Iran is using the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a proxy to arm Shiite militants in Iraq and Tehran's elite Quds force helped militants carry out a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans were killed, a U.S. general said Monday.

A senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, Ali Mussa Dakdouk, was captured March 20 in southern Iraq, U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner said.

Dakdouk served for 24 years in Hezbollah and was working in Iraq as a surrogate for the Iranian Quds Force, Bergner said.


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/877335.html

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