Multi-National, Force-Iraq, Baghdad, October 3, 2008 – – Coalition forces captured five suspected Special Groups criminals during an operation Thursday in Baghdad’s Rusafa neighborhood.
Based on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted a suspected senior Special Groups leader, believed to be involved in smuggling Iranian-supplied lethal aid into Iraq, and a key facilitator in planning and conducting attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces.
Coalition forces approached the suspect’s location where they detained the wanted man and four other Special Groups criminal suspects without incident.
According to intelligence assessments, the organization receives funding, training, weapons and even direction from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – Quds Force. Through its militia-proxies, the IRGC-QF attempts to destabilize the legitimate government of Iraq.