For Dollars or for Jihad?

Maybe we need to look at the Arms dealers as the ones selling the Iranian weapons not Iran Government or it's average person. Most sources I have seen and interigations suggest clearer ties with insurgents and Syria. This would indicate Groups like Al Qaeda in Syria could be funding the insurgents as well as various Iraqi local governments, and other influntial parties vieing for more power. But just as if Canada was attacked some Americans and it's military personnel would most likely help arm civilians. But most of the insurgents interogated have talked more about ties to Syria not Iran.

Dollars or Jihad?
Iraqis are getting paid between $100 and $200 (250,000 Iraqi dollars) each attack weather lobbing a grenade in the green zone (IZ), killing an Iraqi police officer, or Iraqi civilians.

Here is a portion of an insurgent being interogated:

Officer: were you doing these killings for Jihad?
Criminal: yes Sir.
Officer: for Jihad or for money?
Criminal: for both Sir.
Officer: how could Jihad be paid for!!
Criminal: (no answer)
Officer: you're Muslim?
Criminal: yes
Officer: on ID card, huh?
Criminal: yes
Officer: do you pray or go to the mosque?
Criminal: no
Officer: do you drink?
Criminal: yes Sir.
Officer: so you don't pray and you don't go to the mosque and you drink and you kill for money and after all this you call your evil doings Jihad?!!! And you call your group the "Islamic Army"!!
Criminal: (no answer again)
Officer: so, tell me about those 9 policemen. Where were they coming from and where were they heading?
Criminal: coming from 'Msayab and heading to Hilla
Officer: so they weren't coming from Tel Aviv? (from the officer's tone, obviously mocking the conspiracy theorists).
Criminal: no Sir, they were Iraqis.
Officer: THEN WHY DID YOU KILL THEM!!?
Tags: jihad, interrogate, interrogation, iraq, iran, syria, terror, funding, weapons, insurgents, .insurgent_interrogation


Thursday April 12, 2007 - 02:35am (PDT)