Iran
Sets Up New Terror Camp in Eastern Iraq
Iran Focus ^ | April
16 2006
Posted on 04/16/2006
1:39:31 PM PDT London -- Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps has set up a new terrorist training camp in Eastern
Iraq, according to a commander of Iraq's border police.
The Iraqi officer told the National Iraqi News Agency
that the camp was situated 2.5 kilometres from the Iran-Iraq border in the
Iraqi province of Diyala.
The IRGC has been holding training courses lasting
two weeks at the camp for its Iraqi mercenaries to carry out assassinations of
Sunni Iraqis, especially those who held officer ranks in the Iraqi army during
the reign of Saddam Hussein, the officer said. He did not reveal his name for
fear of reprisals by Iraqi security officers who owe their allegiance to the
Islamic Republic. Iranian-backed Shiite radicals of the Supreme Council for
Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) form the backbone of security services in
the war-torn nation.
Iraqi border patrols in Diyala have been put on a
heightened state of alert and have begun to carry out extensive security sweeps
close at the border stretch.
IRGC officers are believed to be entering Iraqi
illegally between the border towns of Qazanieh and Naft-Abad.