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Saturday, 27 January 2007
"Mahdi Army capos flee to Iran"

Death squad chieftains flee to beat Baghdad surge
Hala Jaber, Amman and Sarah Baxter, Washington

DEATH SQUAD leaders have fled Baghdad to evade capture or killing by American and Iraqi forces before the start of the troop “surge” and security crackdown in the capital.

A former senior Iraqi minister said most of the leaders loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American cleric, had gone into hiding in Iran.

Among those said to have fled is Abu Deraa, the Shi’ite militia leader whose appetite for sectarian savagery has been compared to that of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed last year. 

The former minister, who did not want to be named for security reasons, backed Sunni MPs’ claims that Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, had encouraged their flight. He alleged that weapons belonging to Sadr’s Mahdi Army had been hidden inside the Iraqi interior ministry to prevent confiscation.   ...

Hat tip: Allahpundit. Read his whole post here.

Posted by Bill Faith on January 27, 2007 at 09:51 PM in Iran, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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