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 Defense Ministry as saying that his group obtained cash and vehicles from Iran and Syria for car bombings and other attacks against the U.S.-led coalition and Iraq's military and security forces. The commander, identified as Moayad Yassin Aziz Al Nasiri, was captured in late 2004 in Iraq after a tip from a Syrian undercover agent who defected and helped the Iraqi Defense Ministry.