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	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		The Badr Organization is the armed wing of the SCIRI, which was formed in November 1982 in Tehran.
		While the Badr was never subordinate to the IRGC in a formal organizational sense, it was heavily reliant on the latter for funding, arms, training and even infiltration into Iraq.
		The Badr was sidelined during the tenure of Allawi's government (July 2004-April 2005), as the neo-Ba'athists in that administration, particularly the defense minister, Hazem Shaalan, the interior minister, Faleh al-Naquib, and the intelligence chief, Mohammad Shahwani, applied maximum pressure on the Americans to deny Badr access to government resources.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GL10Ak01.html (2526 words)

	McClatchy Washington Bureau \| 12/12/2005 \| Iran gaining influence, power in Iraq through militia
		And by supporting Badr and other Shiite groups, Iran - a member of President Bush's "axis of evil" that sponsors international terrorism, is thought to be seeking nuclear weapons and calls for the destruction of Israel - has used the American-led invasion to gain influence in Iraq.
		Interior Ministry and Badr officials have denied any involvement in the prisons or death squads, but Gen. Muntadhar Muhi al-Samaraee, a former head of special forces at the Interior Ministry, said the prisons were run by Badr operatives.
		Badr was formed and trained in Iran in cooperation with the Iranian government, and its members staged raids into Iraq during the war between the neighboring countries in the 1980s.
	www.realcities.com /mld/krwashington/13391616.htm (1611 words)

	Badr Groups Move From Troubled Past to Uncertain Future - by Brian Conley
		The Badr Corps, estimated before the war to be approximately 10,000 to 15,000 strong was similarly outlawed, along with its parent organization, the SCIRI.
		Although the Badr Organization initially paid homage to Ayatollah Bakir al-Hakim, after his death in August 2003 there was apparently a split in the organization, between direct allegiance to Hakim's brother, Abd al-Aziz, who is also an ayatollah, and Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
		But under public pressure the Badr Corps was disbanded, and replaced by the Badr Organization, ostensibly with a new focus on domestic aid.
	www.antiwar.com /ips/conley.php?articleid=9071 (844 words)

	Iraqi Militias Resisting U.S. Pressure to Disband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Next is the Badr Organization, a unit of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a powerful Shiite party.
		The Mahdi Army's main rival is the Badr Organization, formerly the Badr Brigade.
		The Badr Organization is dwarfed by the pesh merga, an obvious presence in the northern Kurdish region, with their baggy uniforms and Kalashnikov rifles.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /archives/news/2004/bfeb/9_militia.html (1467 words)

	USATODAY.com - Iraq's Kurdish president backs Shiite militia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Badr Brigade was the military wing of the country's largest Shiite political party, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Republic in Iraq — or SCIRI.
		Al-Qubeisi accused the Badr Brigade of providing intelligence to units such as the feared Wolf Brigade, an elite commando unit from the Interior Ministry that is headed by a top SCIRI member.
		The Badr organization's leader, Hadi al-Amiri, challenged the association's head, Sheik Harith al-Dhari, to prove his group involvement in the killings and said an investigation should be held.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-06-08-iraq-politics_x.htm (1295 words)

	Badr Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Badr Organization originally the Badr Brigade or Bader Corps was the armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
		The Badr Brigade was formed by the Iranian government to fight Sadam Hussein's Baathist regime in Iraq.
		The Badr Corps consists of infantry, armor, artillery, anti-aircraft and commando units with an estimated strength of between 4,000 and 10,000 men (according to the Badr Organization) but this is difficult to confirm.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Badr_Organization (535 words)

	Militia reportedly boosting Iran's influence \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		And by supporting Badr and other Shiite groups, Iran – a member of President Bush's "axis of evil" that sponsors international terrorism, is thought to be seeking nuclear weapons and calls for the destruction of Israel – has used the U.S.-led invasion to gain influence in Iraq.
		Badr's leader, Hadi al-Amari, has denied maintaining ties to Iran, but in a fit of anger during a recent interview with Knight Ridder he admitted as much while striking out against U.S.-backed secular Shiite politician Ayad Allawi, the former prime minister of Iraq.
		Badr was formed in Iran, where its members were trained in cooperation with the Iranian government.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051213/news_1n13infil.html (881 words)

	Al-Zarqawi Reportedly Moves to New Area of Iraq
		Broadly speaking, the Shi'ites in Diyala regard SCIRI and the Badr Organization as protectors and employers, while the Sunnis see these organizations as Iranian-backed quislings that are exploiting the occupation to consolidate power.
		In fact, the Badr Organization (in its previous capacity as the Badr Corps) entered Iraq from the Diyala province from April 9, 2003 to early May 2003 and established bases in Baqouba (the province's capital), Miqdadiyah and Khalis.
		As the insurgency deteriorated in Diyala, the Badr Organization steadily increased its presence and operations.
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369875 (818 words)

	Militiaman Denies Tie To Secret Iraq Prison
		BAGHDAD, Nov. 30 -- The headquarters of the Badr Organization, Iraq's most feared Shiite Muslim militia, sits behind blast walls and armed checkpoints in a cluster of large homes near a highway overpass in the Baghdad neighborhood of Jadriyah.
		The armed members' role is to protect the organization's offices across the country, he said.
		Badr is turning the life of the Iraqis in general into a hell," said Ahmed Ali, 55, who owns a small market in the predominantly Sunni Baghdad neighborhood of Adhimiya.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002177_pf.html (1126 words)

	USNews.com: The Baghdad files: A trove of secret intelligence reports spells out in chilling detail how Iraq's ...
		Iraqis associated with SCIRI and Badr opposed Saddam's regime and fled to Iran in the early 1980s, where their organizations were established.
		Badr, which denied the charges, was said to have disarmed this past summer, as part of an agreement with the new Iraqi government that would allow its members to serve in the new Iraqi Civil Defense Force.
		At the time, the report says, Badr was "well equipped" with "small arms, mortars and RPG s [rocket-propelled grenades]," T-55 series tanks and a "variety of artillery and antiair pieces." Other intelligence reports say that an Iranian government agency--probably the IRGC--had provided Badr with global positioning systems to better target U.S.-led forces.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/041122/22iran_6.htm (660 words)

	Iraqi Leaders Take a Divisive Step by Backing Shiite Militia - New York Times
		Talabani's support of the Badr Organization appears to show that the Kurds and Shiites have reached some sort of understanding that their respective militias should continue to exist.
		The Badr Organization, originally called the Badr Brigade, was founded in the 1980's while SCIRI was in exile in Iran, and it received training from the Iranian military.
		The Badr's leaders publicly claimed it had transformed into a purely humanitarian organization, but said repeatedly in interviews that the Badr was still armed and was active in cities across Iraq, particularly in the Shiite heartland of the south.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/08/international/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html?ei=5090&en=e835f6cb912f15c9&ex=1275883200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print (1089 words)

	Stability threatened by battling Shiite militias \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The Badr Organization is seldom mentioned when the United States calls for al-Maliki to disband armed groups, perhaps because the Americans still see the militia's political leadership as a center of power that can be swayed to U.S. policy goals.
		Better organized than the Mahdi army, tightly knit and secretive, the Badr Organization is thought to have largely stayed away from the wholesale sectarian killings blamed on the Mahdi army since February's bombing of a revered Shiite shrine.
		The Badr fighters' ability to avoid negative media attention has prompted charges by al-Sadr's followers that the rival militia is working with the U.S. military to drag the Mahdi army into a fight it cannot win.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20061026/news_1n26south.html (629 words)

	Iraq: President, PM Praise Shi'a and Kurdish Militias
		The comments -- made at a congress of the Badr Organization, the armed wing of the Shi'a-led Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) -- come at a time of tension between Sunnis and Iraq's newly empowered Shi'ite majority.
		The Badr Organization, SCIRI's military wing, was formed in the 1980s to fight the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
		Yesterday, the Badr Organization marked the second anniversary of the self-proclaimed transformation from military wing of SCIRI to a political group.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2005/06/iraq-050609-rferl01.htm (696 words)

	Shi'ia Power Struggle Poses Threat to Security in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Badr Organization is the armed wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, the main Shi'ite party in Iraq's coalition government.
		While most of the Badr fighters are well armed and received professional training in Iran, the gritty streets of Sadr City have been the main training ground for the Mahdi Army militia.
		The U.S. military says it is bracing for another possible showdown between Badr and Sadr militias ahead of the October 15 referendum on the country's draft constitution.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-09-23-voa35.cfm (1095 words)

	Sunnis worried about support for ethnic militias
		The Badr Organization has recently become a target of some Sunni Arab leaders, who have blamed it for the killing of prominent Sunni clerics and others.
		The Badr Organization, in one important way, has its own guarantee that it will remain intact, since the new interior minister, Bayan Jabr, is a former Badr officer.
		The Badr Organization, originally called the Badr Brigade, was founded in the 1980s in Iran, where its leaders were living in exile, and it received training from the Iranian military.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/0609iraq-main09.html (637 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Iraqâs Sunni-Shiâite political rift intensifies
		Al-Dari accused the Badr Brigades, the armed wing of the Shiâite-led Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), of being behind the recent assassinations of Sunni clerics in Iraq, and said that Badr forces have targeted âanyone it felt opposed it, be they armed or unarmedâ.
		SCIRI has close ties to Iran, and the Badr Brigades were reportedly trained and armed by Iranian intelligence from their inception in the 1980s.
		The Badr Brigades, which officially changed its name to the Badr Organization following the disarming of militias under the Coalition Provisional Authority, has rejected the allegations, claiming that statements made by al-Dari and his son, Muthanna Harith al-Dari, âencourage terrorism and set a low price on Iraqi bloodâ.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11331 (1302 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the Badr office, a mustard-yellow stucco building on the edge of town, I was greeted warmly by the local Badr chief, Abu Hassan Sharif, who invited me into his office, a dingy room furnished with a desk and armchairs with broken springs.
		He had joined the Badr Brigade there and had lived in the Iranian holy city of Qom, where the Hakims were also based, but he had been in and out of Iraq on several occasions, doing underground work for the organization.
		Badr asked the British for sixty licenses for weapons for the men who they wanted to put at the plant as guards, but they were only allowed twenty.
	newyorker.com /fact/content/?040202fa_fact3 (8970 words)

	Badr
		A new wave of fighters arrived in Iran after the popular uprising of March 1991 which was crushed by Saddam's regime.
		The Badr corps consist of Infantry, Armoured, Artillery, Anti aircraft and commandos units.
		During the popular uprising of March 1991 the secret cells and elements which was connected to Badr corps took part actively in launching and spreading the uprising from the south to other parts of Iraq.
	www.sciri.btinternet.co.uk /English/About_Us/Badr/badr.html (515 words)

	CNN.com - Iraq leaders praise group accused of killings - Jun 8, 2005
		The meeting marked the second anniversary of the Badr Organization's self-proclaimed transformation from military wing of SCIRI to political group.
		Talibani cited the opposition role played by both the Badr Brigade -- as it was known before changing its name to the Badr Organization two years ago -- and his own Kurdish militia, know as the Peshmerga, in combating Saddam Hussein and called on them to take a greater role going forward.
		The Badr Organization has been accused by some prominent Sunni figures as being complicit in a recent spate of killings of Sunni clerics and have charged the Shia-dominated government with giving the organization too much power.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.badr/index.html (624 words)

	Page for Print
		One of the pillars of the UIA power is the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the SCIRI, which was created in 1983 in Iran´s capital, Tehran, by a group of exiled Shiite clerics and activists under the protection and tutelage of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
		Bayan Badr, a former commander of the Badr Brigade and SCIRI leader, became the new Interior Minister.
		At that time, the Badr Organization was interested in supporting the new government and started to exert significant influence on the security planning and counter-insurgency operations.
	www.revistaamanecer.com /English/PrintPage.asp?ArticleID=459 (1492 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : One day before crucial vote, fighting breaks out in Najaf
		The fighting in Najaf on Wednesday was a continuation of a longstanding battle for control of the southern Shiite heartland between the Mahdi Army and the Badr Organization.
		The Badr Organization is closely allied with the Iraqi Interior Ministry and is the armed wing of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, one of the key political parties in the Shiite coalition that won January's elections.
		Abdul Hadi al Ameri, leader of the Badr Organization, acknowledged that Najaf officials were linked to his group, but he denied that they were involved in the blaze.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=3857 (861 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Secret death squads feared among Iraq's commandos
		One such group, the Volcano Brigade, is operating as a death squad — under the influence or control of Iraq's most potent Shiite factional militia, the Iranian-backed Badr Organization, said several Iraqi government officials and western Baghdad residents.
		Badr also was accused of running the secret Interior Ministry prison raided Sunday by U.S. troops.
		They form a parallel command structure within the ministry and "are able to operate on their own, using police cars, uniforms and weapons for Badr operations, while people in leadership positions can say, some of them truthfully, that they don't know about it," he said.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002628422_iraqcops17.html (1159 words)

	Hadi Al Ameri, Head of Badr Militia, is Iran's First Man in Iraq - Forums powered by Reason and Principle
		Approximately two months ago, a scandal was launched about the smuggling of engines of the Iraqi MiG-29 planes in a garage belonging to Badr Organization and that they were on their way to be exported to Iran, in addition to the exportation of many equipments of the military industries council through the borders to Iran.
		Moreover, organizations of Islamic and humanitarian names have spread in Iraqi southern cities, which many press and security reports state that they are run on behalf of the Iranian intelligence "Ettelaat".
		It is worth mentioning that the documents obtained from Iran clearly show the financial relations between Badr Organization and the Supreme Council with the Iranian regime, two years after their return to Iraq.
	www.libertyforum.org /showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=294123842&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=1 (4125 words)

	SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=21401092
		Indeed, from the time the Badr militia entered Iraq from Iran during the American-led invasion, Sunnis have blamed its fighters for assassinations across the country, especially the killings of former Baath Party officials.
		The Badr Organization has its own guarantee that it will remain intact, since the new interior minister, Bayan Jabr, is a former Badr officer.
		In the summer of 2003, the Badr Brigade changed its name at a time when American officials with the Coalition Provisional Authority were urging the dissolution of all militia.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=21401092 (1086 words)

	Informed Comment
		The SCIRI serves as a framework of a group of parties and movements, and Badr is one of them.
		Badr is a jihadist movement, not a military unit.
		Also, the Badr organization has a strong presence in most other Iraqi provinces.
	www.juancole.com /2005/04/badr-corps-will-accept-ex-baathists.html (558 words)

	Badr Organization Threatens Palestinians in Iraq - aliraqi Community
		Badr Thugs at it once again thinking they always know whats best for Iraq.
		The website correspondent quoted a number of Palestinians in Al Baladiat region that they received messages by mail or under their doors at night that threaten them of death in a few days in case they did not leave Iraq, accusing them of "Wahabism".
		More than one complaint has been received regarding attacks against Palestinians at the hands of the interior ministry forces, which are under the control of Badr Organization, through firing at their homes and detaining them for the claim of executing terrorist activities.
	www.aliraqi.org /forums/showthread.php?t=52920 (652 words)

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