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Baghdad security guard by day, insurgent by night - Yahoo! News

Baghdad security guard by day, insurgent by night - Yahoo! News: "BAGHDAD (AFP) - By day Ahmed works for an Iraqi security company. By night the stocky 30-year-old fights the "American occupier" in his Baghdad neighbourhood. Ahmed admits he is a member of what the US military terms 'Special Groups' -- secret Shiite cells it says wage acts of 'terrorism' in Iraq with the financial and military backing of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards units. 'Our mission,' Ahmed tells AFP during a discreet interview in a Baghdad hotel car park: 'Kill the Americans, as many Americans as possible.' He says he is proud to have been chosen, along with other fighters from his district of Bayaa, to do a one-month course on explosives and guerrilla tactics."

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