Big surprise here. An update on this story. By Jay Deshmukh for AFP (thanks to Sr. Soph):
BAGHDAD (AFP) – The US military on Monday accused Iranian special forces of orchestrating an attack that killed five US soldiers in Iraq and of using its Lebanese Hezbollah proxy to help train Iraqi fighters.
Brigadier General Kevin Bergner told reporters that captured militants accused of ordering the January attack on a US compound in Karbala admitted that senior leaders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ unit supported the strike.
The accusations appear to be part of a mounting campaign by US officials to prove alleged links between Iran and the violence in Iraq.
The militants “said that senior leadership leading the Quds Force knew of and supported planning for the eventual Karbala attack that killed five coalition soldiers,” Bergner said.