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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Report: Iran pays with drugs, money to kill British soldiers in Iraq

LONDON — Iran has offered bounties for the killing of British Army soldiers in southern Iraq.

A British government report said Teheran has relayed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Shi'ites to kill British soldiers in Basra. The Iranian funds were relayed to the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army, said to be responsible for most of the attacks on British soldiers.

"JAM, using funding from Iran, paid the unemployed youths in the region of $300 per month to attack Multi National Forces," the report said. "We also learnt that JAM had a drugs culture and that youths literally got hooked on being associated with JAM."

The report, disclosed by the Telegraph newspaper on May 25, was authored by a British Army officer in Basra, Middle East Newsline reported. The officer, identified as Maj. Christopher Job, wrote that Shi'ite assassins received up to $300 per month to attack the British Army presence in Basra.

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Officials acknowledged the report, titled "Life Under Fire in the Old State Building." They said the report was ordered by the then-government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, who retired in 2007.

The Iranian funds fueled attacks on the British Army in 2006 and 2007. The report said a British base in Basra was attacked 350 times from November 2007 to March 2007.

"This report makes it quite clear that Iran is directly involved in funding the insurgency," British parliamentarian Patrick Mercer, a former infantry commander, said. "The government must confront Teheran over the deaths of British troops. Anything else is appeasement."

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