This is state-sponsored terror folks. That state being the United
States. When are we going to impeach our fucking war-criminal
administration?
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US is said to advise militants on raids in Iran
By Reuters | April 4, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The United States has been secretly advising and
encouraging a Pakistani militant group that has carried out a series of
deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran, ABC News reported yesterday, citing
US and Pakistani intelligence sources.
The raids have resulted in the deaths or capture of Iranian soldiers and
officials, ABC reported.
The group, members of the Baluchi tribe, operates from Pakistan's
gas-rich province of Baluchistan, just across the border from Iran, the
report said.
The only relationship with the group that US intelligence acknowledges
is cooperation in tracking Al Qaeda figures in that part of Pakistan,
ABC reported.
The group, called Jundullah, has produced videos showing Iranian
soldiers and border guards it says it has captured, ABC said.
ABC cited US government sources it did not identify as saying the United
States does not provide direct funding for the group but has maintained
close ties to its leader, Abd el Malik Regi, since 2005.
A CIA official said the account was not accurate.
Regi claims to have personally executed some of the Iranian captives,
the ABC News report said.
"He is essentially commanding a force of several hundred guerrilla
fighters that stage attacks across the border into Iran on Iranian
military officers, Iranian intelligence officers, kidnapping them,
executing them on camera," said Alexis Debat, a senior fellow on
counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News consultant.
The group took credit for an attack in February that killed at least 11
members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on a bus in the Iranian city
of Zehedan, ABC said.
According to the report, Iranian state television last month broadcast
what it said were confessions by those responsible for the bus attack.
They reportedly admitted to being members of Jundullah and said they had
been trained for the mission at a secret location in Pakistan, ABC said.
ABC cited Pakistani government sources as saying the secret campaign
against Iran was on the agenda when Vice President ***** Cheney met with
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.
Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn said, "We don't discuss conversations
between the vice president and foreign leaders."
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