Posted on 04/16/2006 12:33:59 AM PDT by tipsyaj
The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.
One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being “run” in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.
One former counterintelligence official, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the information, describes the Pentagon as pushing MEK shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The drive to use the insurgent group was said to have been advanced by the Pentagon under the influence of the Vice President’s office and opposed by the State Department, National Security Council and then-National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice.
“The MEK is run by a husband and wife team who were given bases in northern Baghdad by Saddam,” the intelligence official told RAW STORY. “The US army secured a key MEK facility 60 miles northwest of Baghdad shortly after the 2003 invasion, but they did not secure the MEK and let them basically be because [then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz was thinking ahead to Iran.”
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I guess they are moving duties from CIA bureaucrats that screwed up pre=911, and political toadies who tried to sell Bush down the river post-911, and puting them into the control of the Iraqis.
Sounds like respect for local culture to me.
Dan Rather would be proud
This appeared yesterday on the al-Jazeera "conspiracy" pages.It will next appear in antiwar.com, commondreams,etc.
Can you say "dis-information" ?
If you haven't heard of the MEK, take some time and educate yourself ... the news of violence in Baluchestan and Khuzestan is certainly not a coincidence. They have a lot of money and are very organized, which gives them a one up on every other Iranian dissident group out there. Why would anyone doubt the use of such a group ? The MEK has provided a lot of intelligence to the UN in regards to Iran's nuclear capabilities, a lot. If you're a pragmatist, as Cheney and Rumsfeld have shown us, the moral implications of using such a group would not be an issue, correct ? The MEK will never have the support of the Iranian people, but to allow them to have such power is very alarming. Let's see how this plays out.
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