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| News Date | Monday, March 31, 2008 11:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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 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 end the fighting in Iraq's largely Shiite south, is named on watch lists of the U.S. Treasury Department and U.N. Security Council for alleged involvement in terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology.
His role, which McClatchy first reported Sunday, underscores Iran's entrenched political power and 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.
Suleimani, about whom little is known, commands the elite Quds (Jerusalem) force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. U.S. officials allege that the force is responsible for sending sophisticated roadside bombs, known as explosively formed projectiles, and other weaponry that Iran's Shiite allies in Iraq have used to kill U.S. troops.
Suleimani's name appears on a Treasury Department list of individuals and organizations with whom Americans are barred from doing business. |
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