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Report: Jordan working to slay Shia leadership, destabilize Iraq

By: Sultan Ahmed

AMMAN, Jordan: Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported the Jordan government intends to undermine the Iraq poll through forming an operations headquarters which aims to divide Iraq, settle five million Palestinian exiles in the western part of the country, assassinate Shia leadership, and carry out obstructionist activities to prevent Iraqis from being able to hold a fair election.

“The headquarters is controlled by the Jordanian security service and has enlisted the cooperation of the foremost experts in psychological operations from the United States, Israel, and certain Arab countries,” semi-official MNA said on December 26.

According to reports, the US, Israel, and certain Arab countries have announced their agreement with the plan to settle Palestinian exiles in Ramadi, Tikrit, and Falluja in western Iraq.

The report further said: “Increasing suicide attacks and assassination attempts on prominent Shia personalities, purchasing votes to prevent a Shia victory in the election, canceling the election results if the Shias win, and organizing members of the former Baath regime to carry out coups to retake power are some of the other objectives that the headquarters was established to pursue.”

Mehr said that many Iraqi officers of Saddam’s Baath regime are currently receiving military training under the supervision of the CIA and Mossad in Jordan’s deserts, with the goal of eventually regaining power in Iraq.

Thus, Jordan intends to reestablish the Baath regime in Iraq and re-marginalize the Shias.

The report said that during the 25-year Baathist regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam, Jordan, which is a poor country, received billions of dollars from Iraq, both in the form of free oil and financial assistance. The country lost its only big source of revenue with the collapse of Saddam’s government.

Furthermore, Jordan was allied with Saddam’s regime during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war as well as during Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait. It also directly participated in the massacres of Shias in southern Iraq in 1991.

After the overthrow of Saddam, officials of the small country of Jordan sent Abu Musab Az-Zarqawi to Iraq to carry out destabilization activities, and this terrorist criminal bombed several places in Iraqi cities including the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. These bombings, besides killing ordinary people, also martyred the eminent cleric Ayatullah Sayyed Mohammad Baqer Al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) at the time.

Although Az-Zarqawi is ostensibly fighting against the occupying forces, the main goal of this terrorist and the Jordanian government, which is assisting him, is to prevent the Shias from taking power, Mehr reported.

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