The Financial Times (UK) passes on a report that, if true, illustrates how wide-ranging our campaign in Iraq truly is, and how complex is the inter-twining between the various factions. Don't think I trust the Iranians to issue a factual report, but something is going on.
US forces attacked the main Iranian armed opposition group based in Iraq on Monday and destroyed two of its military bases, a senior Iranian official said yesterday. The People's Mujahideen Organisation (MKO), based in Iraq since the mid-1980s and financed and equipped by Saddam Hussein, is listed a terrorist group by the US State Department. The group seeks to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment and replace it by a "democratic republic". It has waged operations against Iranian civilians and assassinated Iranian officials since the 1980s. According to the State Department it also killed US military personnel and civilians working on defence projects in Tehran during 1970s. It also helped Baghdad to suppress the failed Shia uprising in 1991.
Posted by Alan at March 26, 2003 10:53 PM