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LOU DOBBS: New concerns
tonight about Iran's efforts to kill American troops
in Iraq. U.S. military intelligence now says a member
of the Iraqi parliament has been assisting Iranian
special forces operating in Iraq. It also turns out
that the lawmaker was sentenced to death in Kuwait
for bombing the American and French embassies in
Kuwait City in 1983. Five people were killed in those
attacks.
Michael Ware has the report from Baghdad -- Michael.
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, the very
delicate relationship between Washington, Baghdad and
Tehran is being strained to its very limits right
now. Amid an American campaign of accusations of
Iranian military interference supporting insurgents
attacking U.S. soldiers here in Iraq, comes a
revelation following a CNN investigation that a
member of the Iraqi parliament was involved in the
car bombing of an American embassy in Kuwait in 1983.
Indeed, this member of the parliament was convicted
and sentenced to death for his role in that attack,
as well as other attacks on the French embassy and
other installations in his absence. It is believed he
had already fled Kuwait at the time of the
sentencing. At the time, he was part of an armed
faction supported by Iran.
This member of parliament then went on to eventually
lead an Iraqi element of the Iranian armed forces, a
position he left shortly before the U.S. invasion of
Iraq, when he returned to covert operations. In the
December, 2005 U.S.-sponsored elections here in Iraq,
this member of parliament, Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, one
of his many names that he's operated under, was
successful in winning a seat represented southern
Babil Province.
So, suddenly, the American mission here in Iraq found
in the parliament it had created was a man who had
blown up one of America's own embassies.
Meanwhile, an Iranian diplomat has gone missing here
in the capital, Baghdad. Little is known. Accusations
are flying.
Iranian and Iraqi government figures say that the
diplomat was taken by up to 30 gunmen in Iraqi army
or Ministry of Defense uniforms. The Iranian
government has actually accused the U.S. of direct or
indirect involvement in this official's
disappearance.
Certainly the strain is starting to show -- Lou.
DOBBS: Michael Ware from Baghdad.