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CAN U SPOT IRONY? *IRANIAN* BROKERED PEACE IN S-IRAQ (HE IS ON U.S.WATCH-LIST!)
Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list By Warren P. Strobel and Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Iraq is an unlikely peacemaker.
Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, who helped U.S.-backed Iraqi leaders negotiate a deal with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to stop the fighting in Iraq's largely Shiite south, is named on U.S. Treasury Department and U.N. Security Council watch lists for alleged involvement in terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology.
His role as peacemaker, which McClatchy first reported Sunday, underscores Iran's entrenched political power and its alliances in Iraq, according to analysts.
"The Iranians are into a lot of things, and have a lot of influence," said Judith Yaphe, a former CIA analyst who's now at the National Defense University in Washington...
Are you able to smell the (counter)spin? - See: "The Iranians are into a lot of things, and have a lot of influence,"...
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