CIA Using Pak citizens at formenting trouble with IRAN

[foxhound]

Salaam!

Looks like the CIA are using Pakistan again.....when will we learn.....they are using old tactics of Divide and conquer.....



Pakistani militants staging raids inside Iran: ABC WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) The U.S. has been secretly advising and encouraging a Pakistani militant group that has carried out a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources. The raids have resulted in the deaths or capture of Iranian soldiers and officials, ABC reported. The group, members of the Baluchi tribe, operates from Pakistan's province of Baluchistan, just across the border from Iran, the report said. The only relationship with the group that U.S. intelligence acknowledges is cooperation in tracking al Qaeda figures in that part of Pakistan, ABC reported. The group, called Jundullah, has produced videos showing Iranian soldiers and border guards it says it has captured, ABC said. ABC cited U.S. government sources it did not identify as saying the United States does not provide direct funding for the group but has maintained close ties to its leader, Abd el Malik Regi, since 2005. A CIA official said the account was not accurate. (Posted @ 10:21 PST)

 

[PakSniper]

It's faulty news, those Baloch tribes been doing this before the war on terror, to get their free land, I doubt CIA would have any hands in it. Probably weapons, but hey as long as Iran kills the Baloch idiots I dont mind.

 

[EagleEyes]

Nothing new. CIA continues to uses this tactic everywhere in the world, now it up to Pakistans hands that it investigate in this issues if it is true and act upon it. Pakistan citizens cannot be used to make trouble against Iran in anyway.

CIA have been doing this for a while in Africa, Seirra Leone over the diamonds (Blood Diamond) and the list goes on.

 

[PakSniper]

Nothing new. CIA continues to uses this tactic everywhere in the world, now it up to Pakistans hands that it investigate in this issues if it is true and act upon it. Pakistan citizens cannot be used to make trouble against Iran in anyway.

CIA have been doing this for a while in Africa, Seirra Leone over the diamonds (Blood Diamond) and the list goes on.

True, alot of CIA funding is also through drugs thats why in the US they are at odds against congress at times. How else you think they were able to pay for USSR/Afghan war, alot of it was through crack and opium.

 

[Zeeshan S.]

Pakistan militants stage Iran raids

The US has been secretly advising and encouraging a Pakistani militant group that has carried out a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran, ABC News reported, citing US and Pakistani intelligence sources.

The raids have resulted in the deaths or capture of Iranian soldiers and officials, ABC reported.

The group, members of the Baluchi tribe, operates from Pakistan's gas-rich province of Baluchistan, just across the border from Iran, the report said.

The only relationship with the group that US intelligence acknowledges is co-operation in tracking al Qaeda figures in that part of Pakistan, ABC reported.

The group, called Jundullah, has produced videos showing Iranian soldiers and border guards it says it has captured, ABC said.

ABC cited US government sources it did not identify as saying the United States does not provide direct funding for the group but has maintained close ties to its leader, Abd el Malik Regi, since 2005.

A CIA official said the account was not accurate.

Regi claims to have personally executed some of the Iranian captives, the ABC News report said.

"He 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," said Alexis Debat, a senior fellow on counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News consultant.

"He used to fight with the Taliban. He's part drug smuggler, part Taliban, part Sunni activist," Debat told ABC.

The group 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 Zehedan, ABC said.

According to the report, Iranian state television last month 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, ABC said.

ABC cited Pakistani government sources as saying the secret campaign against Iran was on the agenda when Vice President Dick Cheney met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.

Asked about the report, Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn responded: "We don't discuss conversations between the vice president and foreign leaders."

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/1048710

 

[Zeeshan S.]

EDITORIAL: Another embarrassing development for Pakistan

An American TV channel, ABC News, says that the United States has been secretly “advising and encouraging” a Pakistani militant group to carry out a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran. The name of the outfit is Jundullah which 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.

The Iranians also have a version of their own. Last month, the Iranian state television broadcast “confessions” by those who helped organise and carry out the Zahedan attack. The terrorists reportedly admitted to being members of Jundullah and said they had been trained for the mission at a secret location in Pakistan. What is more, according to ABC News, when the US Vice President Dick Cheney met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February in Islamabad, the secret campaign against Iran was on the agenda.

ABC has cited unnamed US government sources as saying that the United States did not provide direct funding for the group but had maintained close ties to its leader, Abd el Malik Regi, since 2005. Mr Regi claims to have personally executed some of the Iranian captives. He is supposed to be commanding a force of several hundred guerrilla fighters staging attacks across the border into Iran on Iranian military and intelligence officers and agents, kidnapping them and executing them on camera. The man is clearly a mercenary for anyone who pays him well.

This is an embarrassing revelation for President General Pervez Musharraf at a time when a delegation from the Iranian parliament is visiting Pakistan. One can only say that Pakistan is the most unlucky country in the world from where only bad news is heard. Some academics in the United States have been comparing Pakistan with Zimbabwe where the state is in the process of slow economic demise presided over by an autocrat who refuses to see the rigor mortis setting in.

This Jundullah is not the Jandullah that suddenly appeared in Karachi and was captured in 2004. That Jandullah was led by one Ataur Rehman along with a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Masoob Aroochi, and a number of Uzbek and Chechen terrorists trained in Wana. The group was also accused of having tried to kill the corps commander, Karachi. This new Jundullah is apparently a different group and is operating from Balochistan. The ABC story may be a fib as far as the connection with the Pakistan government is concerned, but it is a fact that the gang has operated inside Iran and has a base inside Pakistan.

What are people to think if Pakistan acts as a state with no control over its territory and groups like Jundullah can attack a crucially important neighbouring state with impunity? Officially Pakistan is totally opposed to the American policy of aggression against Iran and Islamabad has decided not to get embroiled in the dispute raging between the United States and Iran over the latter’s nuclear programme or its role in Iraq. Also, one can safely assert that the people of Pakistan are completely opposed to the government aiding and abetting any American effort to interfere inside Iran.

In fact Pakistan’s future is tied to Iran’s agreement to supply gas to it through a long pipeline from its western gas-fields. One can also predict that Pakistan might have to get ready to face up to the United States on the matter of the gas pipeline. Pakistan will be backed by India while the two countries face America’s opposition to the gas pipeline from Iran for thus “strengthening its economy”. Another irony, if ironies are all Pakistan is dealing with these days, is that Pakistan and India on Wednesday decided in New Delhi that they would pursue the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project “as fast as they can”. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh reassured each other that they would be steadfast in their resolve to pursue the IPI pipeline.

Pakistan seems to have no control over what it is doing in the region. At least that is what its neighbours think. Afghanistan complains that Pakistan is allowing the Taliban to operate in Afghanistan out of its territory. When Pakistan denies the charge, the NATO forces on the other side of the Durand Line support the Afghan view. Now Iran has the same sort of trouble and Pakistan will surely issue a denial this time too. But no one in the world will believe it. Yet, this is one instance in which Pakistan will hurt itself badly if it aids and abets any alleged American foray into Iran. *

SECOND EDITORIAL: Jamia Hafsa and MMA’s reprimand

On Wednesday, leaders of the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) condemned the actions of students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia madrassas in Islamabad, saying that “such things were not allowed in civil society”. The Jamaat Islami leader Mr Liaquat Baloch told the organisers of Jamia Hafsa that no religious party had endorsed the actions taken by the madrassa students. Jamia Hafsa girls have been attacking private houses in their vigilante action in the name of Islam.

The matter is not of piety but of taking the law into one’s own hands. No one but the state and its judiciary is in a position to decide which citizen to apprehend for what crime. Vigilante action in the name of Islam in the case of Jamia Hafsa girls was also condemned by the MMA’s senior vice president, Prof Sajid Mir, and vice president Qari Gul Rehman. While the religious leaders were busy controlling damage against a developing citizens’ backlash, the Jamia Hafsa administration has announced its intention to introduce a parallel judicial system by launching a “shariat court” at the Lal Masjid premises on Friday. The MMA leadership has asked the government to proceed against the offending students and their teachers. This should now be done without further loss of the country’s image and time. And it should be done in a manner that meets with the approval of the public rather than in a ham-fisted way which provokes sympathy for the protesting students. *

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\06\story_6-4-2007_pg3_1

 

[Zeeshan S.]

Pakistan not supporting any anti-Iran activity’

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Dr Gholam Ali Haddad Adil said on Thursday he did not believe that Pakistan was supporting any CIA-sponsored group to create instability in Iran.

“If CIA is helping any Pakistan-based group then I think Pakistan does not stand to gain from it,” Adil said in response to a question after addressing a seminar on ‘Iran and the regional scenario’ organised by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI). ISSI Director General Dr Shireen Mazari, responding to a question about reports that the CIA was using Pakistani territory to wage a war against Iran, said that no Pakistani or friend of Pakistan would allow anyone to use Pakistan against Iran.

Earlier addressing the seminar, Adil said that modern and educated Muslim youths had rejected Western secularism.

He said the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project showed the good relations between Iran and Pakistan. He said that Iran was against terrorism and the global Islamic awakening was different from terrorism. He said the Islamic awakening was not a threat to international peace.

Later addressing a joint sitting of the foreign relations committees of the Senate and the National Assembly at Parliament House, Adil said that Iran gave great importance to relations with Pakistan.

APP adds: Addressing a press conference, Adil said the IPI gas pipeline project was expected to launch in July. He said the project would not only help meet energy requirements in South Asia, but would also show that the countries of the region wanted to cooperate for the benefit of their people.

He said the United States was unlikely to attack Iran, adding that the US was only pressing Iran to change the country’s stance on certain issues. “We are fully prepared and determined to give an appropriate response to any military intervention,” he said. He added that Iran had freed 15 British sailors as a gesture of goodwill to the people of the United Kingdom, but Iran would never tolerate any violation of its borders. Adil said the Iranian nuclear programme “is open to the International Atomic Energy Agency and we are heading forward under its safeguards”. He said that Iran’s nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\06\story_6-4-2007_pg7_13

 

[sword9]

CIA have been doing this for a while in Africa, Seirra Leone over the diamonds (Blood Diamond) and the list goes on.

Correction, (a little off topic) Seirra Leone had British links and not CIA. Merc companies like the defunct "Sandline" were used by a conglomerate of diamond business houses in Britain to maintain control over the diamond mines there.

Now that the UN troops have sorted out the problem and cheap diamonds are no longer available/ or rare, there is a hue and cry being made against the sale of "blood diamonds", by this very diamond conglomerate.

 

[con]

I dont get it. Why is Pakistan so keen on having adversery on all the side of it's border.There is India,then Afghans, now the the Iranians.

 

[Adux]

I dont get it. Why is Pakistan so keen on having adversery on all the side of it's border.There is India,then Afghans, now the the Iranians.

It doesnt have to be the intention of Pakistani's in general, But their Leadership have to listen to the whims and whams of Outside Powers for its survival. A trend we see in many Middle eastern Muslim countries, Oman, Saudi Arabia Kuwait being prime examples

 

[Spring Onion]

Nothing new. CIA continues to uses this tactic everywhere in the world, now it up to Pakistans hands that it investigate in this issues if it is true and act upon it. Pakistan citizens cannot be used to make trouble against Iran in anyway.

CIA have been doing this for a while in Africa, Seirra Leone over the diamonds (Blood Diamond) and the list goes on.

yeh i agree webby thats wht US had been doing.
if recall history thats what they had been doing evern to their own citizen in washington DC by pitching own poor citizen against each others.
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