Hot Air links to this article in the Independent:

“This is a new plan now for the Mahdi Army, it is part of a new strategy,” he said. “We know we are against a strong enemy and we must learn proper methods and techniques.”…

Abu Rafed [a Mahdi Army veteran] estimated a total of almost 4,000 Iraqi Shias, including “many important Mahdi Army leaders”, had received training there last month alone, living at the camp for weeks at a time. He said the number of Iraqi Shias arriving there had increased significantly since the start of the “surge” in February…

Abu Amer said: “The training was done by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. I saw Iraqi fighters from Missan, Basra, Diwaniyah and Nasiriyah [areas of southern Iraq]. They were mainly Mahdi Army, but not all of them.” More Iraqi Shias had sought military instruction, he added, after the 2006 bombing of the Samarra shrine, the event widely blamed for triggering widespread sectarian war between Iraq’s Sunnis and Shias.

Hot Air’s AP comments: “The camp is in a town called Jalil Azad, outside Tehran. An independent expert on al-Sadr interviewed for the piece goes out of his way to say this doesn’t mean the mullahs are sponsoring it. Really? There’s massive paramilitary training going on outside the capital by members of the country’s most elite force and the Iranian government is indifferent in the matter?”

Of course they are not sponsoring it, they are condoning it, which is, of course, much less bad…

Flopping Aces meanwhile, has a video up of Glenn Beck interviewing Ghazal Omid, author of Living In Hell, about the rape and murder of one woman and the lack of interest the MSM shows towards the pro-Democracy protests.

It is one of those major beefs I have with the MSM: why don’t we hear anger about how women are treated in Iran? Why don’t we hear anything about how the Mullahs continue to break every possible human right they can break?