U.S. Officials: Hezbollah Training Iraqi Shiite Militia Group

“U.S. Officials: Hezbollah Training Iraqi Shiite Militia Group“

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232262,00.html
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group in Lebanon that warred with Israel this summer, has been training militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia both inside Iraq and in Lebanon, senior White House and intelligence officials confirmed Tuesday.
The confirmation came after the New York Times reported that a senior intelligence official said that some 1,000 to 2,000 Shiite fighters had been trained in Lebanon by Hezbollah, which also is backed by Syria. Click here to view the New York Times article. President Bush, who is in Europe to attend a NATO summit, expressed concern Tuesday that Iran and Syria are both attempting to destabilize Iraq.
"The Iranians and the Syrians should help — not destabilize — this young democracy," Bush said. Bush continued to express his administration's reluctance to talk with Iran and Syria on the grounds that the two nations have been unhelpful in efforts to achieve Middle East peace. (Story continues below)(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232262,00.html ...

So it is not just the bloodshed in Somalia but in Iraq too, all thoe that were cheering to Hezbollah's cruel tactics in Lebanon (to cause their brothers and sisters' deaths) out of Anti Israel feelings, should know something about the global militant Islamic Mahdi army headed by Iran.