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Date: April 5, 2007 5:15:46 PM PDT
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Subject: Provoking the Enemy Until He Strikes "First"
The Secret War Against Iran
April 03, 2007 5:25 PM
Brian Ross and Christopher Isham
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
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, U.S. and Pakistani
intelligence sources tell ABC News.
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.
Jundullah has produced its own videos showing Iranian soldiers and
border guards it says it has captured and brought back to Pakistan.
The leader, Regi, claims to have personally executed some of the
Iranians.
"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.
Most recently, Jundullah took credit for an attack in February that
killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
riding on a bus in the Iranian city of Zahedan.
Last month, Iranian state television 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.
The Iranian TV broadcast is interspersed with the logo of the CIA,
which the broadcast blamed for the plot.
A CIA spokesperson said "the account of alleged CIA action is
false" and reiterated that the U.S. provides no funding of the
Jundullah group.
Pakistani government sources say the secret campaign against Iran
by Jundullah was on the agenda when Vice President Dick Cheney met
with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.
A senior U.S. government official said groups such as Jundullah
have been helpful in tracking al Qaeda figures and that it was
appropriate for the U.S. to deal with such groups in that context.
Some former CIA officers say the arrangement is reminiscent of how
the U.S. government used proxy armies, funded by other countries
including Saudi Arabia, to destabilize the government of Nicaragua
in the 1980s.
Posted by: Mary C | Apr 3, 2007 6:52:43 PM
Is it not clear that the British and the Americans are
collaborating in order to start w war with Iran -- hence the so-
called "hostage" crisis. Agents provocateurs! This is insanity --
and all so that the rich resources can be divided up among two
greedy nations -- the same two greedy nations (especially Great
Britain), who have tried again and again to get a major stronghold
on the most resource-rich continent in the world!
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