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"We zijn er 100% zeker van dat Iraniers in de stad (Al Kut) aanwezig zijn." Ze zouden er informatie vergaren en propaganda verspreiden.
Ze zijn met name "bang" voor Hakim die een islamitische revolutie in Irak wilt doorvoeren. US intelligence has tracked Iranian agents in Iraq Monday, April21 , 2003 - © 2003IranMania.com WASHINGTON, April 20 (AFP) - US intelligence officials have tracked around12 Iranian agents moving from Tehran to Al Kut in southeastern Iraq over the past month, according to latest edition of Newsweek out Monday. "We are absolutely 100 percent positive that there are Iranian operatives in town," a senior US military intelligence official told Newsweek, adding that several of them were known members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. US officials believe that the Iranians in Al Kut, 160 kilometersmiles) southeast of Baghdad are primarily intelligence officers gathering information and possibly spreading propaganda. There are concerned though that Iran appears to have planned in advance for their deployment as soon as Saddam Hussein fell, Newsweek reported, adding that the Iranian Shiite leader and self-proclaimed friend of Washington Abdulaziz Hakim had spent decades fighting the former Iraqi president. Iranian-based Iraqi Shiite opposition member Abdul Aziz Hakim speaks to journalists during a press conference 14 April, 2003 in Teheran. Al-Hakim said his group would not attend a meeting 15 April of Iraqi opposition members in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. With a rising tide of anti-American sentiment in southern Iraq, US officials fear that Hakim may aspire to a Iranian-style Islamic republic for the region. Hakim commands the10 ,000-strong military wing of the Iranian-backed Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI). The organisation, which is led by Hakim's older brother, boycotted last week's US-organised gathering of Iraqi opposition leaders in An Nasiriyah which aimed to take the first steps towards establishing an interim government in Baghdad. Bron
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