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US Aiding Al Qaeda Affiliated Group In Iran?
Pakistani Intel sources and Iranian parliament claims CIA
aiding anti-Iranian militants
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 6, 2007
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of
deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by
American officials since 2005 according to Pakistani Intelligence and Iranian
officials.
The United States is putting pressure on Iran by
supporting anti-Iranian militants operating from the Pakistani border region,
the speaker of Iran's parliament, Gholamali Haddadadel, said on Thursday, as
reported by Reuters news agency.
"There is no doubt in our minds that the United
States spares no effort to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran,"
Haddadadel said.
"The best indication of United States' support to a particular
terrorist group is that one of the leaders of this terrorist group was given the
opportunity to speak on VoA after committing the crime," Haddadadel said without
specifying which crime he was referring to.
It is possible Haddadadel was referring to the February 2007
bombing attack on Zaheden, which lies in the southeastern Iranian province
of Sistan-Baluchestan, bordering on both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Following this attack, which killed 18 Iranian soldiers,
Brigadier General Mohammad Ghafari "renewed Iranian accusations that the
Jundullah group was receiving support from British and US forces in neighboring
Afghanistan for its campaign of violence in Sistan-Baluchestan,"
David Eshel wrote in the March 2007 Defense Update.
Following the arrest of some key members linked with the
Jundallah group
Ghafari asserted that "A video seized from the rebels confirms their
attachment to opposition groups and some countries' intelligence services such
as America and Britain."
It was then reported that explosive devices and arsenals used
in the attack
came from the United States.
Haddadadel's claims are backed up by an
ABC News investigative report this week that cites Pakistani intelligence
sources.
ABC's Brian Ross states:
The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the
Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan,
just across the border from Iran.
It has taken responsibility for the deaths and
kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.
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.
ABC cited Pakistani government sources as saying the secret
campaign against Iran was on the agenda when U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.
One interesting aspect of this is that, according to the Asia
Times, the Jundullah group was
formerly allegedly headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the so called
al-Qaeda operational commander of the 9/11 attacks.
Wikipedia
entry:
Jundullah (Army of God) is a militant Islamic
organization that is based in Waziristan, Pakistan and affiliated with
Al-Qaeda. It is a part of the Baloch insurgency in Pakistan and in
Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan Province. The goal of the group is to form
an independent and united Baluchistan under a hardline Sunni Islamist
government similar to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Though Baloch-dominated,
the group claims to represent all Sunnis in Iran, regardless of
ethnicity. Iran and Pakistan have designated it a terrorist organization
and banned it. The militant Sunni group operates inside Iran's
southeastern border. The group poses a threat to the country's Shi'ite
clerical regime, which already faces a crisis with the West over its
nuclear ambitions. The Iranian government has accused the United States
of supporting the Sunni group as a destabilizing element against
Ahmadinejad's regime. The Jundallah deny any link with the United
States.
The group was supposedly an anti-Western terrorist group,
which means that if Pakistani and Iranian intel is to be believed, at some
point the group has been co-opted by Western intelligence. Is the CIA
knowingly aiding an Al Qaeda affiliated group in order to pressure the
Iranian regime?The CIA and the government have a
history of using proxy armies, funded by other countries to destabilize
foreign governments. Nicaragua in the 1980s is one such example, as is the
funding of anti-Castro militants in Cuba.
In 1953 such tactics were successful when the CIA and MI6
removed the democratically elected nationalist cabinet of Iranian Prime
Minister Mohammed Mossadegh from power by working with Qashqai tribal
leaders in southern Iran to establish a clandestine safe haven from which
U.S.-funded guerrillas and intelligence agents could operate.
This is not the only anti-Iranian terror group that US
government has been accused of funding in an attempt to pressure the Iranian
government.
Multiple credible individuals including US intelligence whistleblowers
and former military personnel have asserted that the government is
conducting covert military operations inside Iran using guerilla groups to
carry out attacks on Iranian Revolution Guard units.
It is widely suspected that the well known right-wing
terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), once run by Saddam
Hussein's dreaded intelligence services, is now working exclusively for the
CIA's Directorate of Operations and carrying out remote bombings in Iran of
the sort that the Bush administration condemns on a daily basis inside Iraq.
Just last month after a bombing inside Iran, the
London Telegraph also reported on how a high ranking CIA official has
blown the whistle on the fact that America is secretly funding terrorist
groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give
up its nuclear programme.
The British government has hinted that yesterday's attack
in Basra that killed four British soldiers was carried out by militants with
ties to the Iranian government. Meanwhile the fifteen British sailors,
released yesterday by Iran, have admitted that they were engaged in
intelligence gathering on Iranian activity.
The evidence suggests that The US and Britain are fully
engaged in a covert war with Iran that has spilled over the border into
Iraq, sowing more chaos and endangering the lives of more US and British
troops, the vast majority of whom have no knowledge of such activity.
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