Leave behind, for a moment, if you will, the absurdity of fighting a noun, and accept that 'Merika is fighting the "War on Terror". Just for grins.
If this is so, then why is the CIA
"giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan"? (This is what
Seymour Hersh has been pointing to, his reports apparently ignored by Congress.)
Jundullah operatives in Iran are allegedly led by a fellow named Abd el Malik Regi;
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.Executing them on camera, dang that
rings a bell. I mean, that really
rings a bell. Can't place it just now, but...
Anyhow, according to this
Pakistani report from 2004, Jundullah is closely associated with Al Qaeda;
Coming from a similar middle-class ground, Attaur Rehman is yet another face of the new Islamic militancy in Pakistan. A graduate from Karachi University, he was arrested in June for masterminding a series of terrorist attacks in Karachi. A tall and heavily built man in his early 30s, Rehman was associated with Islami Jamiat-Talba, the student wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami. He later broke away from the Jamaat to form his own militant group, Jundullah (Army of God), which draws its cadres mainly from the educated and professional classes.
According to police, Rehman is closely associated with Al-Qaeda's network in Pakistan, which has grown in strength despite the capture of hundreds of its operatives over the last few years. A well-knit cell comprising some 20 militants, most of them in their 20s and 30s, Jundullah is one of the new and, perhaps, the most fierce of the militant groups behind the recent spate of violence in Karachi. The group hit the headlines after a daring attack last month on the motorcade of Karachi's Corps Commander. The general narrowly escaped death, but 11 people, including eight soldiers were killed. It was the most serious terrorist action targeting the military since the two failed assassination attempts on President Musharraf in Rawalpindi in December last year. Jundullah has also been involved in attacks on rangers, police stations, as well as the twin car bombings outside the Pakistan-US Cultural Center last month.
Apparently we are are to be reassured by the fact that it's actually
the ISI that is supporting Jundullah directly, but the ISI denies this. The
Telegraph article drops this pretension, but somehow I'm not comforted by the fact that it's the ISI. The ISI is a well-known proxy for US covert operations, dating from activities in Afghanistan in the 80s. The ISI is reportedly linked to
supplying money to alleged 9/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta. However, President Musharaf, in an attempt to distance himself from this report, has claimed that the operative who sent money to Atta, was a
long time MI6 agent. Never heard of this? There are reports that
Pakistan lobbied the 9/11 Commission to purge these stories from the 9/11 Commission Final Report. So who to believe?
Note that Regi, the alleged leader of Jundullah conducting operations in Iran, is identified as "part drug smuggler, part Taliban, part Sunni activist". I think they forgot, "all intelligence operative".
This guy is a criminal, being maneuvered by Western Intelligence, into doing their dirty work. The question is, when the dollars are being passed around, who is making sure that none of these dollars are being used to mangle and murder our friends and relatives in the military, on the ground, in Iraq? Who is making sure that none of these beheading videos don't include Americans? Where does propaganda stop, and reality begin?
I've documented the unhealthy relationship between US covert operations and the Afghan opium trade
here. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Agents working for the advancement of US strategic goals have been facilitating Al Qaeda for nearly two decades now, crossing administrations, as documented by British author,
Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed.Where does the madness end?
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