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June 23, 2008 Special Dispatch No. 1890

Hamas-Iraq: Al-Qaeda in Iraq is Subservient to Iran; "The U.S. is Our Main Enemy, But a More Dangerous Enemy is Iran"

June 23, 2008
Iraq, Iran | Special Dispatch No. 1890

In a March 26, 2008 interview with the Qatari daily Al-'Arab, the spokesman for the Iraqi Sunni jihad organization Hamas-Iraq, Ahmad Salah Al-Din, accused Al-Qaeda in Iraq of regarding most Iraqi resistance factions as its main enemy, of subservience to Iran, and of receiving from it weapons, funds, training, and medical care for its wounded. Salah Al-Din added that in the past year Al-Qaeda in Iraq had become considerably weaker and smaller. ...

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