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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (181392)	2/8/2006 7:42:21 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Can you imagine what might happen if Iran invades Iraq and we're still there? Wow! Guess it depends on one's definition of "invade".. The battle in Najaf back in April, 2004 involved a considerable number of Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) trained Mahdi Army members (the opinion was that many of them are actually IRGC). Iran denies having provided assistance to Sadr. However, while it may well be true that he does not officially receive government aid, it is evident that Sadr has received substantial funding from the quasi-governmental network of extremist Iranian "charities" that provide financing for the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, and that some members of the Sadrist militia have been trained by Qods division of Iran's Islamic Republic Guard Corps (IRGC). How much aid he has received is unclear. Earlier this month, the London-based Arabic daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat quoted a source in the IRGC as saying that Sadr has received about $80 million in recent months and that the IRGC has trained 800-1,200 members of the Mahdi Army at three camps along the border with southern Iraq (the so-called "US and Israeli intelligence" estimates of Iranian financial and military aid to Sadr published in an "exclusive" New York Post report two days later were conspicuously identical).[2] meib.org And another link that seems of interest to the topic: windsofchange.net But as for an actual physical invasion of Iraq by Iran? I don't think you'll see that at this point. It would only occur in the face of a civil war where Arab states were seen as introducing their own forces into the country supporting the a Sunni side in that CW.. And that would essentially result in the partioning of Iraq between Shi'a and Sunni.. Hawk