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September 29, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/28/wirq28.xml

Iranian Agents Flood into Iraq

(Telegraph-UK) - Philip Sherwell and Jessica Berry Iran has dispatched hundreds of agents posing as pilgrims and traders to Iraq to foment unrest in the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, and the lawless frontier areas. Teheran's hardline regime has also allowed extremist fighters from Ansar al-Islam, a terror faction with close links to al-Qaeda, to cross back into Iraq from its territory to join the anti-American resistance. "The last thing that certain elements in the [Iranian] regime want is to see a stable, democratic, and pluralistic Iraq next door, so they are trying to export trouble here," said a leading Iraqi official.

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