Iraq plans to remove Pentagon's proxy force

[norml]

August 8, 2006 at 17:46:53

Iraq plans to remove Pentagon's proxy force

by Devlin Buckley


http://www.opednews.com

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and other top Iraqi officials are calling for the eviction of an anti-Iranian militant group that is reportedly orchestrating attacks and collecting intelligence inside Iran on behalf of the Department of Defense.

The group, known as the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK or MKO), "is interfering in social and political issues as if it's an Iraqi organization," Maliki told reporters at a recent press conference. "It's a terrorist organization and the presence of this group in Iraq contradicts the constitution," he said, calling for the group's eviction.

Although the Iraqi leader neglected to mention the United States, his position is at direct odds with current and former military and White House officials who view the MKO as a potential 'democratic' alternative to the present Iranian regime.

Furthermore, the Iraqi Prime Minister's stance could jeopardize a covert operations program reportedly being directed by the Department of Defense against Tehran. The Pentagon is reportedly running the MKO in Iran's oil-rich province of Khuzestan -- which has been the subject of numerous attacks and terrorist bombings over the past year -- and in the opium-smuggling border province of Sistan-Baluchistan, where suspected US/MKO operatives attacked and killed several Iranian officials just this March.

The prime minister's recent comments on the MKO were reiterated by Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs, Salam al-Zawba'i, who announced a "comprehensive plan, which requires approval of the government to expel the MKO from the country by the year's end."


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http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_devlin_b_060808_iraq_plans_to_remove.htm

[TomInTib]

1. Wow. This is starting to smell like Central America..

Eliot Abrams, John Negroponte, et al are up to their old tricks.

Mr. Maliki is not long for this world.

[bemildred]

2. He better watch his ass. nt

[rodeodance]

3. Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK or MKO),---It has been a long while since I

have seen anything written about this organization.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. I think they see writtings on the war

If the Arab League declare war against Isreal.

....... and the winner is ?????

The UN resolution is critical here.
The Arab League has up ante.
Take it or leave it.
France, Russia, China now all working hard and saying
Isreal?lebanon has to accept Lebanon demand.

Blair I think somewhere on the moon
Maybe think how fast get UK troops out of Iraq if bush veto.

No one going to saty behind when all hell break loose
Only the Americans Troops. Bush use your damn brain
You cannot win this shit
You already lost the day you lie for war.

[anotherdrew]

5. so we're admitting that WE support terrorism in Iran ? Basically admitted

the people supporting this group need to be brought to justice, not just voted out of office.

[IndianaGreen]

7. If "they" do it, it is terrorism

If "we" do it, it is freedom and democracy.

[bunyip]

9. Exactly

:cry:

[donkeyotay]

11. Yes, and "they" kill innocent people

while we never do. We kill insurgents, or worst case, it's collateral damage. We also never bomb, shoot, maim or kill. We're always sweeping, mopping, cleaning up nests and cells.

[low_phreaq]

6. Just had a flashback to Larisa's Raw Story articles on the MEK

On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday April 13, 2006

"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."
<snip>
"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 Wolfowitz was thinking ahead to Iran."
<snip>
"According to still another intelligence source, the policy infighting ended last year when Donald Rumsfeld, under pressure from Vice President Cheney, came up with a plan to "convert" the MEK by having them simply quit their organization."
<snip>
"Cambone and those guys made MEK members swear an oath to Democracy and resign from the MEK and then our guys incorporated them into their unit and trained them."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/US_outsourcing_special_operations_intelligence_gathering_0413.html

Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Cambone. Freakin' PNAC operation! :mad:

US military, intelligence officials raise concern about possible preparations for Iran strike

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday May 11, 2006

<snip>
"Military and intelligence sources now say no Presidential finding exists on MEK ops. Without a presidential finding, the operation circumvents the oversight of the House and Senate Intelligence committees."
<snip>
"One former high ranking US intelligence official described the use of MEK as more of a "Cambone" operation than a "Department of Defense operation."
<snip>
"During a White House briefing in early May, outgoing press secretary Scott McClellan denied that the administration was using MEK, among several other terrorist organizations named, for ground activity in Iran."

"There are numerous reports about low-intensity operations ongoing in Iran from three different places -- PKK going over the border into Iraq, the MEK southern border of Iraq into Iran, and also certain operations from Balochistan involving also the Pakistanis," a reporter asked. "Does the U.S. have a policy, given also reports which I know you won't comment on, on possible special forces operations in Iran?"

"Our policies haven't changed on those organizations," McClellan said. "They remain the same. And you're bringing up organizations that we view as terrorist organizations."

"We would never cooperate with them, in terms of—" the questioner continued.

"Our policy hasn't changed," McClellan replied.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/US_military_seen_ready_for_Iran_0511.html

OK, Scotty, now we know what you meant! :grr:

[Kailassa]

8. "our policy hasn't changed" means

we're doing something we can't admit to and we're going to keep doing it.

Of course murder and mayhem are not terrorism if they are done on America's behalf.

[DemReadingDU]

10. K&R