iran-trained operatives in iraq, u.s. says

Known as Badr Brigade, the militia is the armed force of Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution Iraq, Shiite Muslim group with headquarters Tehran.. They suggests that Iran, in shaping developments in southern Iraq, whose population - like that of Iran - is composed of Shiite..

iraqi prime minister sends troops to basra

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday ordered thousands of Iraqi troops to Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, to disarm Shiite Muslim militias that have taken control there, move that underscores how little of the country Baghdad has secured. ... His declaration,..

fight threat of religious persecution

In Iraq, President Saddam Hussein has conducted decades-long of murder, execution, and protracted arbitrary detention against leaders and followers of Shiite Muslim faith. In Iraq and neighboring Iran, clerics have been murdered, mosques and other sites desecrated, and religious..

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