5/3/2008: Intel News Brief: Proof Iran Training Terror Militias:

In an unusual initiative, five Iraqi Shia lawmakers presented
intelligence photos and other evidence yesterday to the Iranian
government that Tehran is arming and training Shia militias in Iraq,
and they demanded that it stop, senior Iraqi government officials
said.

U.S. officials hailed the meeting at the Iranian foreign ministry as a
sign that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shia-led government was
standing up to Iran, its powerful Shia neighbor. The American military
says Iran is the key sponsor of militias battling U.S. and Iraqi
troops.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Iraqi government is forcing
the Iranians to make a choice: "Do they want to work with the
government of Iraq or are they going to subvert the government of
Iraq?"

The Pentagon accuses Iran of supporting the Mahdi Army, the militia of
hardline cleric Muq- tada al-Sadr, who has urged his followers to work
to end the American occupation of Iraq. Iran has repeatedly denied
that it's arming the militias.