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To: LindyBill who wrote (92779)	4/12/2003 10:50:48 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mr. Rumsfeld addressed Al-Hakim's group a week or so ago in one of the defense briefing by telling the Badr Corps they would be considered "combantants" if they came into Iraq. defenselink.mil (last paragraph of opening statement) Badr Corps responds to Rumsfeld's warning According to the Associated Press, Abu Eslam al-Saqir, a top adviser to council leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, said the Badr Corps would not seek confrontation with U.S. and allied forces. ''Our Badr army is not seeking any military confrontation with coalition forces. We only fight Saddam,'' al-Saqir told The Associated Press. As for the Iranian government, their spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh was quoted Saturday by the official Islamic Republic News Agency as saying: ''Tehran is surprised that Americans have come from the other side of the globe and are interfering in Iraq's internal affairs but say if Iraqi opposition carries out any action it would be interference in the internal affairs of their own country.'' He added that Iran believes that the war is ''meaningless'' and ''illegitimate'' and that ''only American warmongers will benefit.''