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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 02:20 AM
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Anti-Iran militia faces terrorist designation
US is weighing conciliatory step

WASHINGTON - The State Department is seriously considering placing a shadowy anti-Iranian militant group on its terrorism list, a move that would send a conciliatory signal to Iran as the Obama administration is trying to restart diplomatic talks, according to US officials.

The militia, known as Jundullah, or Soldiers of God, has killed scores of Iranian soldiers and border guards since 2003 and brazenly attacked an Iranian police station in December. Yesterday, it claimed responsibility for a rare suicide bombing Thursday in an Iranian mosque that killed 25 and wounded 125.

The Iranian government accuses the United States of funding the group, making its deadly attacks a key obstacle to rapprochement between the two countries. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly yesterday strongly condemned the killing of Iranian civilians and said that the US government does not fund Jundullah, whose fighters are disgruntled members of the Baluch ethnic minority.

"We do not sponsor any form of terrorism in Iran," Kelly said. "We continue to work with the international community to prevent any attacks against innocent civilians anywhere."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/05/30/anti_iran_militia_faces_terrorist_designation/
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 02:53 AM
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1. Gotta love that.
Kill lots of soldiers and blow up a mosque... and the US might think about perhaps calling you a terrorist.

I mean well fuck, the dead are only Muslims, after all.
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 07:34 AM
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2. According to former head of Pakistan ISI, US supports Jundullah, and KSM once headed the group
Edited on Sat May-30-09 08:23 AM by leveymg
Seems that the "enemy of my enemy" addage once applied to al-Qaeda, from which Jundullah sprung with the neocons as a midwife.

Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM) is Baluchi, and Jundullah, "The Brigade of God", is al-Qaeda in Baluchistan. KSM is from Baluchistan, went to college in North Carolina, and was on the CIA payroll in Afghanistan. http://www.faqs.org/docs/911/911Report-293.html



http://www.infowars.com/former-pakistan-general-us-supports-jundullah-terrorists-in-iran/

Former Pakistan General: U.S. Supports Jundullah Terrorists in Iran
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
July 10, 2008

According to Pakistan’s former Army Chief, retired General Mirza Aslam Baig, the U.S. supports the Jundullah terrorist group and uses it to destabilize Iran. Baig knows what he is talking about, as he was on the inside track when the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI created al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Both Baig and former ISI chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul were part of the Darul Uloom Haqqania Islamic conference held near Peshawar on January 9, 2001, significant because the conference was hosted by CIA asset Osama bin Laden. Baig rubs elbows with Pakistan’s ruling oligarchs, so he knows something about what goes down in South and Central Asia and the Greater Middle East.




Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, supposedly the al-Qaeda operational commander of the September 11 terrorist attacks, headed up the CIA sponsored terrorist group Jundullah.

“He said that the US is providing training facilities to Jundullah fighters–located in eastern areas of Iran–to create unrest in the area and affect the cordial ties between Iran and its neighbor Pakistan,” reports Iran’s Press TV. “The intelligence agencies of the coalitional forces are very active in Afghanistan and work against the interests of Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia in the region, he said as quoted by Pakistan Daily newspaper.”

In other words, the neocons are busy at work on their plan, active now for well over a decade, to foment chaos in the region and ultimately reduce it to a smoldering ruin. Iran has long figured prominently on the neocon hit list.

“Jundullah is a terrorist group, headed by Abdolmalek Rigi, which operates in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan and Pakistan’s Baluchistan,” notes Press TV. In fact, the Sunni terrorist group is a creature of the CIA, a fact confirmed last May when the Sunday Telegraph reported that the CIA was “supplying money and weapons” to Jundullah as part of Bush’s not so covert black op designed to “achieve regime change in Iran,” that is to say reduce the country to a smoldering ruin on par with Iraq and install a brutal dictatorship, more than likely a return of the the dreaded Pahlavi monarchy, long favored by neocons. Rigi fought with another CIA-ISI spawned group, the Taliban, in Afghanistan.

“Jundullah has close ties with Al-Qaeda,” Tariq Jamil, chief of the Karachi police, told Newsline in 2004. In 2005, according to ABC News, U.S. officials began encouraging and advising Jundullah and in February, 2007, Dick Cheney flew to Pakistan to parlay with dictator Pervez Musharraf on Jundullah operations against Iran. It is said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, supposedly the al-Qaeda operational commander of the September 11 terrorist attacks, headed up the group at one point.




http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FG20Df05.html
PART 1: The legacy of
Nek Mohammed
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

SNIP
Training camps and the resistance
By now the scattered Taliban and al-Qaeda had regrouped. They had restored their supply lines and sources of financial aid, and had begun to build new bases, hideouts and training camps on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

In this process, Nek thrived, utilizing his networks in the Pakistani tribal areas from which he hailed, especially in South Waziristan.

Nek and his foreign comrades formed a new jihadi outfit called Jaishul al-Qiba al-Jihadi al-Siri al-Alami. Another group, Jundullah, two of whose members, Attaur Rehman and Abu Musab al-Balochi (al-Baloshi), were later arrested in Karachi in connection with the recent unsuccessful attack on the Corps Commander Karachi, was formed with members from the Jaishul al-Qibla to conduct operations all over Pakistan and to "take the battle to all possible fronts".

Both organizations are aligned with al-Qaeda, but have different ways of operating.

Jundullah
Jundullah is a purely militant outfit whose objective is to target Pakistan's pro-US rulers and US and British interests in the country. Members receive training in Afghanistan and South Waziristan, and it is now actively recruiting.

The organization produces propaganda literature, including documentary films, and has a studio named Ummat. It does similar work for al-Qaeda's media wing, which is called the al-Sahab Foundation.

These media outlets incite the sentiments of Muslim youths by producing films showing Western - particularly Israeli and US - "atrocities" against Muslim communities. This is the basic tool through which a new generation of jihadis is being raised.

Jundullah was allegedly headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda operational commander of the September 11 terrorist attack in the US. He was arrested in Pakistan early last year.

Suspects grilled
The US has exclusive facilities across the world to interrogate militants, many of them captured in Pakistan. They are believed to number about 3,000, and they are spread over different areas. The biggest interrogation center for al-Qaeda detainees is Bagram Air Base north of the Afghan capital Kabul. Al-Tamara detention center, eight kilometers out of Rabat in Morocco, houses dozens of people arrested in Pakistan, while others are kept in Egypt, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Soon after the attack on the Corps Commander Karachi, a number of Jundullah Pakistanis were arrested, as well as four Arabs, including al-Baloshi. During their interrogation they fingered two prominent doctors (brothers) from Karachi, Dr Akmal Waheed and Dr Arshad Waheed, who were said to have provided medical treatment to members of Jundullah. The doctors, associated with the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association, were heavily involved in relief work in Afghanistan during the US invasion of that country. Later they treated several high-profile al-Qaeda leaders in South Waziristan. They are also said to have raised funds for al-Qaeda and helped several Arab families return to their countries of origin.

The doctors have since been arrested.

The interrogators also learned of two girls from Karachi who had been recruited and trained for suicide attacks against Western interests in Pakistan. As a result, the United States and the United Kingdom temporarily shut down their diplomatic facilities for fear of a terror attack.

Jundullah is now believed to have penetrated deeply into the Pakistan army, police and air force, with core centers in Rawalpindi (the twin city to Islamabad), Peshawar and Quetta.


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PainPerdu Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:50 PM
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3. Is it just my imagination?
Is there not a pattern and practice of "deletism",not "elitism',when it comes to former US paramours,who no longer serve a convenient and useful purpose?


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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 06:31 PM
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4. Tools get used. nt
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