We've Got To Help The Terrorists

Well, this should put the final nail in that "we're spreading freedom and democracy" coffin:

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.

One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being “run” in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.

“The MEK is run by a brother and sister who were given bases in northern Baghdad by Saddam,” the intelligence official told RAW STORY. “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 [then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz was thinking ahead to Iran.”

What a charmer that Wolfowitz is.

From what I've read the MEK is something of a cult, completely unstable and unloved within Iran, considering they're, you know, a terrorist group. It's like sending in ETA to liberate Spain.

“These guys are nuts,” this intelligence source said. “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.”

Stephen Cambone is the Undersecretary of Defense Intelligence. His office did not return calls for comment.

According to all three intelligence sources, military and intelligence officials alike were alarmed that instead of securing a known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world – including US civilian and military casualties – Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran strike.

“They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all,” one intelligence source said.

This is a group Saddam used to murder and torture Shiites. I'm guessing they don't want it to get out around Baghdad that the group they're using in Iran used to routinely kill Iraqis. This has all the earmarks of an undeclared guerrilla war designed to brak away the oil-rich regions in Iran through a Sunni uprising. It's a familiar story, one that CIA and covert ops have been playing since the 1950s. All the while, we hear talk of diplomacy and downplaying the possibility of military action to the stateside audience.

We're now in league, literally, with terrorists. This is the legacy we all share.