Reuters: Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe: U.S. sources
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U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr Organization are Shi'ite militia groups that are part of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Front, a group closely tied to Iran, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based advocacy group.
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January 25, 2016
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