US-backed suicide bombers kill 31

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Sun, 2009-10-18 12:11

contrarianna

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At least 31 people were killed today, many of them top commanders in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and 25 others were wounded in a suicide attack in Sistan-Balochistan.
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Jundallah is a Baloch separatist group which operates on both the Iranian and Pakistani sides of the border. The group, which once boasted of ties with al-Qaeda, has been supported by the United States since at least 2005.

The exact extent of US backing for Jundallah is a matter of some dispute. Officials who privately acknowledge the relationship insist everything was careful worked to avoid Congressional oversight and that the relationship was “appropriate”, but the captured brother of Jundallah’s leader insists the US directly funded the group and has ordered them to carry out attacks.

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/18/at-least-31-killed-in-iran-suicide-bo...

Sun, 2009-10-18 12:25

sanizadeh

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but the captured brother of Jundallah’s leader insists the US directly funded the group and has ordered them to carry out attacks.

Not that I have any love for this separatist group, but as Alexander Panagolis once said, in those kind of jails they can make you confess to raping your own mother.

Mon, 2009-10-19 13:08

contrarianna

sanizadeh wrote:

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but the captured brother of Jundallah’s leader insists the US directly funded the group and has ordered them to carry out attacks.

Not that I have any love for this separatist group, but as Alexander Panagolis once said, in those kind of jails they can make you confess to raping your own mother.

That is a reasonable objection taken in isolation. However, there is plenty of other evidence, including huge governmental allocations , that show US deeply supportive and directive of various terrorist groups in Iran including Jundullah.

Seymour Hersh, for example, is scupulous in verifying his sources:

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In an interview with NPR on his latest New Yorker Article, titled ‘Preparing the battlefield’, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reveals more striking details of his findings on the aim of the $400 million budgeted US covert operations inside Iran. He provides valuable information on US military preparations to strike the country, on the total expansion of the Bush Administration’s executive power, about the US recognition of Iran’s overall positive role in Iraq and on the US support for the anti-Iran terrorist organisations Jondollah, PJAK and MEK.

Hersh explains that the aim of the US covert operations inside Iran is to create a pretext for attack with the goal of regime change. “The strategic thinking behind this covert operation is to provoke enough trouble and chaos so that the Iranian government makes the mistake of taking aggressive action which will give the impression of a country in acute turmoil”, he said. “Then you have what the White House calls the ‘casus belli’, a reason to attack the country. That is the thinking and it is very crazy.”....

http://irancoverage.com/2008/07/08/seymour-hersh-us-training-jundullah-a...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?curren...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

Mon, 2009-10-19 13:54

kropotkin1951

This is the same pattern throughout the region and the world. The US was instrumental in the birth of the Islamic fundamentalist groups both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The blow back is what is killing people in those countries today. So the fact they are arming murderous groups to fight their enemies in Iran should surprise no one. Contras, mullahs, taliban, Latin American death squads all spring from the same well. Maybe the only difference is that they bring the Latin American murders right into America to train them.

Wed, 2009-10-21 02:10

Fidel

[url=http://patdollard.com/2009/10/iran-vows-to-attack-the-cia/]Iran Vows To Attack The CIA[/url]

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The chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Monday accused the United States, Britain and Pakistan of having links with the Sunni militants responsible for a homicide bombing that killed five senior Guard commanders and 37 others.

"Behind this scene are the American and British intelligence apparatus and there will have to be retaliatory measures to punish them," Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, vowing a "crushing" response.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said those behind Sunday's bombing are hiding across the border in Pakistan, and in a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart on Monday he demanded their arrest.

"The presence of terrorist elements in Pakistan is not justifiable and the Pakistani government needs to help arrest and punish the criminals as soon as possible," state TV quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Asif Ali Zardari.

The Gladio gang al-CIA'duh and "Sunni militants" have been at it again.