Regarding Ahmadinejad’s trip to Iraq, The New York Times wrote that the US officials said that the Iranian regime meddled in that country’s affairs by sending advanced weaponry and training militias for using roadside bombs and EFPs.

The New York Times added that the US Army had announced on Saturday that the US forces had arrested a person in Diyala province who had been responsible for recruiting women for suicide operations.
The New York Times added: Outside Baghdad, it was clear the visit outraged many Sunni Arabs who still have raw emotions from the Iran-Iraq war and believe that Mr. Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government functions as a proxy for Iran.
The recent move by thousands of former insurgents and other Sunnis to join American-backed militias is often ascribed solely to a revolt against Sunni jihadist militants. But many of those militiamen say they joined partly to get support from the Americans so they can prepare to resist Iranian efforts to dominate Iraq.
“I think Ahmadinejad is the most criminal and bloody person in the world,” said Emad Abbas, a university student in Samarra. “This visit degrades Iraq’s dignity, and it proves that Iraq is occupied twice, once by the United States and once by Iran.”
In Kirkuk, where Sunnis are fighting efforts by Kurds to control the city, tribes and political parties rallied against the visit.
“How can we tolerate this?” said Salman Abdullah Al-Hamad, an Arab tribal leader in Kirkuk. “Today we live under the regime of the clerics. The Iranian revolution has been exported to Iraq.”
Hundreds of Sunnis also took to the streets in Falluja. “Ahmadinejad is the main reason why the occupiers remain in Iraq,” said Muhammad Dira Farhan, 50.
“His visit is intended to reassure his followers here,” he said, but he is “provoking and enraging” many Iraqis.