Iran isn’t working with al Qaeda in Iraq? Tell that to some of al Qaeda’s opposition. The NEFA Foundation has provided a transcript of an interview with a commander from “Hamas in Iraq,” an insurgency group that was formerly a faction of the 1920 Revolution Brigades:
It is never safe to take these characters at their word. But he certainly does not have a pro-American bias. He refers to America as the “enemy” and says that his group will “never, ever cooperate” with American-led forces. In addition, nothing he says about Iran’s support for al Qaeda is all that surprising. As we have mentioned previously, the U.S. military and the new Iraqi intelligence service both confirm that Iran is hunting al Qaeda’s enemies, not al Qaeda itself, inside Iraq. Iran is on al Qaeda’s side in Iraq–not ours and not the Iraqi citizens. Some in the media seem to have trouble accepting this reality. As Steve Schippert explains, that includes the Boston Globe.
