The RWers will have to change Wikipedia on the al-Quds Force being from IRAN

[wakeme2008]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Al-Quds_brigades

The al-Quds Brigades is the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organisation Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Especially active in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the al-Quds Brigades are reportedly receiving orders from the PIJ leadership in Damascus, Syria.

Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada, in September 2000, the al-Quds Brigades have been responsible for many attacks directed at Israeli civilians as well as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) which have claimed the lives of 124 people, according to the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base. The group has carried out numerous shooting attacks and bombings, including suicide bombings.

The al-Quds Brigades were very active in the West Bank, especially in the town of Jenin, but extensive operations against its infrastructures carried out by the IDF resulted in severe losses to the group, and it appeared significatively weakened by 2004 in that region.

..more at link....


Bush has them from Iran so it must be true... :grr:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. george weren't that good with mapology. or geology,

or geographicolostomy or whatever you call her.

[Igel]

2. Al-Quds is simply

"Jerusalem" in Arabic.

You can also spell it "al-Qods", if you prefer to go a bit low-register in Arabic--one short back rounded vowel sounds very much like the other adjacent to a uvular stop (although the uvular isn't well preserved in most dialects). I'm not sure if Farsi preserves the 'al' (= 'the') in the name.



On edit: You have to be more creative in your wiki searches.
"The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has an estimated 125,000 personnel in five branches: Qods Force (Special Forces), Basij (Paramilitary), Navy, Air Force, and the Ground Forces." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran