By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : The US army said it has detained a senior leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah suspected of fomenting violence in the Iraqi city of Basra.
In a press conference held at the green zone in Baghdad Monday, Brigadier General Kevin Bergner said Ali Mousa Dakdouk, known as Bahmeed Mohammed Jabour Al-Lami, a top leader in Lebanon's Hezbollah, has been detained.
He said Iran is using the Lebanese Hezbollah militia as a medium to arm the Shiite armed groups in Iraq who carried out an attack against the provincial government building in Karbala in January and killed five Americans.
"Our intelligence reveals that senior leadership in Iran is aware of this activity," Bergner said.
Bergner said the suspect had been working for the Quds Force, an Iranian organisation linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Bergner, the spokesman of the Multinational Force in Iraq, said Dakdouk was detained on March 20 in Basra south of Iraq.
He said Dakdouk served 24 years in Hezbollah and he was working in Iraq as a representative of the Iranian Quds Force and was a liaison between the Iranians and a breakaway Shia group led by Qays Al-Khazaali, a former spokesman for cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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