INSURGENT CITES AID FROM IRAN AND SYRIA

BAGHDAD [MENL] -- A Sunni insurgency commander has asserted that his groupobtained money and equipment from Iran and Syria. The commander of Mohammed's Army was videotaped by the Iraqi DefenseMinistry as saying that his group obtained cash and vehicles from Iran andSyria for car bombings and other attacks against the U.S.-led coalition andIraq's military and security forces. The commander, identified as MoayadYassin Aziz Al Nasiri, was captured in late 2004 in Iraq after a tip from aSyrian undercover agent who defected and helped the Iraqi Defense Ministry.