http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354383,00.html

Report: Al Qaeda-Linked Militant Says Iran Supports Sunni Fighters in Iraq

KUWAIT CITY — A Sunni fundamentalist from Kuwait who has been linked by the United Nations and the United States to Al Qaeda, said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran is supporting Sunni Arab insurgents fighting American troops in Iraq.

The comments by Mubarak al-Bathali came just days after reports surfaced here that three Kuwaitis recently carried out suicide bombings in Iraq, including a Kuwaiti who was a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Kuwaiti authorities have not confirmed those reports.

The U.S. has accused Iran — which is predominantly Shiite like Iraq — of supporting Shiite militias in Iraq. Iran denies this and blames the U.S. troops presence for the violence in Iraq.

The accusations by al-Bathali were a rare occasion that a Sunni fundamentalist claimed Tehran also backs Sunni extremists, linked to Al Qaeda. In the battlefields of Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites are archenemies.

In the interview in Kuwaiti Al-Qabas daily, al-Bathali said that Tehran is supplying Al Qaeda fighters and other Jihad movements in Iraq with "weapons and money" and claimed he has personally sent fighters to Iraq by way of Syria.

Al-Bathali alleged that Iran's motivation for backing both the Sunnis and Shiites opposed to Washington, was because Tehran is eager to "place hurdles in front of America" so that the U.S. would be "too busy to fight" Iran. He also said Iran facilitates the entry of fighters into Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Any person who wants Jihad (holy war), is of age and responsible and honest in his intent, I send him and prepare him," al-Bathali said. "I guarantee passage into Syria and reception there, until he finds himself in Iraq carrying a weapon and fighting."

Al-Bathali, whose remarks were unusually bold, said he has also sent Kuwaitis to fight in Kosovo and Chechnya.

He gave no evidence of his claims and provided no further details. But he mentioned his son, Abdel Rahman, who was captured in Iraq in 2004 and sentenced there to 10 years for working with Al Qaeda.

"If I had sons other than Abdel Rahman, I would have sent them to fight the Americans until doomsday," he said in the interview. Al-Bathali could not be reached by The Associated Press for comment.

In January, the U.N. Security Council added al-Bathali and two other Kuwaitis to a list of about 480 individuals and businesses linked to Al Qaeda and its sponsor the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Treasury Department has said al-Bathali is a fundraiser and recruiter for Usama bin Laden's terror network and has facilitated travel for extremists planning to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Al-Bathali told Al-Qabas that he doesn't send fighters to Iraq through the Iraq-Kuwait border because the area beyond the boundary in southern Iraq is controlled by "Shiites and British forces." Instead, the "easiest borders have been the Syrian and Saudi," he said.

The U.S. has chastised Syria for allowing foreign fighters to cross into Iraq. Syria denies the charges and claims it's impossible to seal its border completely.

Small oil-rich Kuwait has been a major Washington ally since the U.S.-led 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. However, some of its fundamentalist Muslims disapprove of U.S. forces being based in their country or any other in the area.

Media reports have said that three Kuwaitis, including Abdullah al-Ajmi who was released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantnamo Bay in 2005, carried out suicide bombings in Iraq recently. The families of al-Ajmi and another alleged bomber, Bader al-Harbi, said they received anonymous calls informing them the men died in Iraq.

Al-Bathali told Al-Qabas the three left Kuwait "only after a martyrdom operation was prepared for them in agreement with coordinators" in Iraq. He did not say if he had a role in sending them himself.

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Qur'an:8:67 It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.
Qur'an 8:12 I will terrorize the unbelievers...Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Qur'an 9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.

I don't see why anyone would be surprised by this.

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Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a **** how crazy they are!

Why wouldn't they? Makes sense to me.

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Sure, it shows how utterly ridiculous the democrats and liberals who denied it was even possible because of the hostility between sunni and shia, let alone happening. As those in the know have been saying, they will gladly team up to kill infidels before warring with each other for which type of islamomoronism is better.

Won't be long now til the bombs start dropping on iran...W is sure to take care of this soon....

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Qur'an:8:39 Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.
Qur'an:8:67 It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.
Qur'an 8:12 I will terrorize the unbelievers...Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.
Qur'an 9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.

To me as well.

This whole article is writtien in the grand tradition of Murdoch spin. It leaves out the quotes of the allegations.

Moreover, the real story, of course, is that the sunnis are more readily helped by Syria and Saudi Arabia.


Another case of this stupid news wire telling stupid people what they want to hear.

Clown shoes.

It could be true. But it could also be true that a Sunni extremist has a major incentive to lie about the involvement of Shiite Iran.

Iran supporting Shiite militias makes sense. Iran supporting Sunni extremists who think Shiites are devil spawn only makes sense in a myopic "enemy of my enemy" kind of way.

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The "enemy of my enemy" thing is more likely to apply to Iran helping militants in Iraq than to Iran helping Sunni groups generally. The groups despise one another, but it's not like either side likes U.S. troops around.

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I see you're bashing Christians again. What is it with you? do you hate all religions?

But stuff like that has a way of coming back to bite you, like it did us in Afghanistan. After all, once we're gone, you *know* those weapons and training are going to be turned on the Shiites.

I think Iran would be tres stupido to give any significant support to the Sunni groups -- particularly the extreme extremists like AQ. They may support some Sunnis, but not AQ.

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