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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. military and Iraqi security forces are battling the flow of millions of dollars from Iran and Syria that fund insurgents, The Washington Times reports.
Daniel Gallington, a former aide to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, said "there are billions" flowing into Iraq, with Syria funding Sunni Muslims and Iran supporting the Shiite factions.
"The fight in Iraq is about who controls what area is really all about who controls the money," Gallington said.
The insurgents use the cash not only for weapons, ammunition, communications equipment and bomb-making equipment but to buy the loyalty and silence of villagers, the report said.
U.S. Army Gen. John Abizaid, who heads U.S. Central Command, said many Iraqis working with insurgents don't have ideological motives but simply need money.
"They get paid, and they're getting paid because they don't have any money and they're getting paid because they've got people (who) are generally members of the old army that don't have work," Abizaid said in the Times' report.
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