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US backing 'secret war' against Iran?
by Eoin O'Carroll; csmonitor.com
The CIA disputes a report linking Washington and a
Pakistani guerrilla campaign against Tehran.
The US government has been secretly supporting a
Pakistani militant group that has staged a series of deadly attacks
against Iran, ABC News reported, citing unnamed US and Pakistani
intelligence sources.
The group, known as Jundallah, or "God's Brigade,"
is made up of members of the predominantly Sunni Muslim Baluchi tribe
which inhabits Pakistan's gas-rich province of Baluchestan, as well as
neighboring regions in Iran and Afghanistan. In their exclusive report,
which aired on Tuesday evening and was posted online on Wednesday morning,
ABC News reporters Brian Ross and Christopher Isham said that while the US
provides no direct funding, the group has been "secretly encouraged and
advised" by the American government since 2005.
U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with
Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group,
which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as
congressional oversight.
Tribal sources tell ABC News that money for
Jundullah is funneled to its youthful leader, Abd el Malik Regi, through
Iranian exiles who have connections with European and Gulf states.
Jundullah, which claims that Iran's Shiite regime
is oppressing its Baluchi minority, has claimed responsibility for
bombings, kidnappings, and televised beheadings that have killed more than
a dozen Iranian troops and officials. In February the group said it
carried out a car-bomb attack targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guard in
Zahedan, the provincial capital in southeastern Iran, killing 11.
Jundullah's leader Mr. Regi, who founded the group in 2003 at the age of
23, has - according to ABC - admitted to personally executing captured
Iranian soldiers.
"He used to fight with the Taliban. He's part
drug smuggler, part Taliban, part Sunni activist," said Alexis Debat, a
senior fellow on counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News
consultant who recently met with Pakistani officials and tribal members.
"Regi 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," Debat said.
The ABC News report said US Vice President *****
Cheney spoke to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf about Jundullah and
its campaign against Iran during Mr. Cheney's surprise visit to Pakistan
in February. When asked by Reuters about the meeting, a Cheney spokeswoman
said, "We don't discuss conversations between the vice president and
foreign leaders." Reuters also quoted a CIA official as saying the ABC
"account was not accurate."
An analysis by Strafor, a global intelligence
consulting firm based in Texas, noting that Jundullah has stepped up its
attacks recently, says that the US could be using Jundullah as a "poking
device" [subscription only] against Iran.
U.S. support for Jundallah fits into the larger
picture of U.S.-Iranian negotiations over Iraq. Iran has made painfully
clear that it has -- and can use -- a variety of militant assets
throughout the region to pressure Washington to meets its demands in Iraq.
At the same time, the United States has an interest in demonstrating that
it has friends among Iran's minority groups to gather intelligence, stir
up public unrest and distract the clerical regime from its Iraqi agenda.
http://www.just-international.org/article.cfm?newsid=20002082
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07 Apr 2007 03:10:28 PM |
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"Dr. Bipolar" <doctorsalway...@theglobalasylum.com> wrote:
US backing 'secret war' against Iran?
Here on our planet, the EU was making an issue out
of Iran loooooooong before Bush stuck his finger in
the pie.
You wouldn't understand. Well, clearly you don't.
Now do us all a favor and make some fanciful leap,
pretending you do.
Thanks in advance, psycho breath.
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| User: "Doc" |
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07 Apr 2007 04:17:39 PM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175976628.058278.231290@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
"Dr. Bipolar" <doctorsalway...@theglobalasylum.com> wrote:
US backing 'secret war' against Iran?
Here on our planet, the EU was making an issue out
of Iran loooooooong before Bush stuck his finger in
the pie.
You wouldn't understand. Well, clearly you don't.
Now do us all a favor and make some fanciful leap,
pretending you do.
Thanks in advance, psycho breath.
Let me clue you in on my reasons for posting news articles. Sometimes, I
post them because I agree or tend to agree with the all of the content, or
part of the content. Sometimes, I don't, but simply post them as a
controversial news development, and offer it up for possible discussion.
In this case, it was the latter, you lil' honey bear.
Dr. Bipolar =))~
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| User: "JTEM" |
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08 Apr 2007 12:10:11 AM |
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"Doc" <bushgobye...@leftofcenter.com> wrote:
Let me
Not even as a sick joke.
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| User: "Doc" |
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08 Apr 2007 03:48:44 AM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176009011.298165.207890@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
"Doc" <bushgobye...@leftofcenter.com> wrote:
Let me
Not even as a sick joke.
That's the best spin you can put on it, Fruit Pebbles? What a
disappointment! =)
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