The 2007 revelation by ABC News that the Bush Administration was covertly backing the Jundallah terrorist organization in an effort to convince them to launch attacks on Iran was no small embarrassment for the administration, and a considerable source of tension with the Shi’ite world as the militants attacked mosques and killed large numbers of civilians.
The only problem is, it apparently didn’t happen. At least not the way ABC News claims. Instead of being direct US backing, by way of the CIA, for a State Department listed terrorist organization (a big no-no), Foreign Policy is reporting today that the whole thing was actually a Mossad plot designed to frame the CIA and the administration.
Officials cite internal memos, classified of course, from the 2007 and 2008 investigation into the allegations, which found that in reality the people who bought off Jundallah were Mossad agents, with faked US passports and large amounts of US dollars.
“It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,” one of the officials said. “Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought.”
Indeed the unspoken goal of the “false flag” appears to have been to damage what little trust the Iranian government had in the US. Captured Jundallah leaders confessed on Iranian TV that they were funded and directed by the CIA, and apparently they believed that is what was happening.
The report goes on to say that President Bush “went ballistic” when he heard about the Mossad plot, saying it was “putting Americans at risk.” There was also concern it would severely damage relations with Pakistan, since Jundallah has traditionally also attacked targets in Pakistani Balochistan.
The US State Department has been struggling to publicly deny the US-Jundallah relationship, and retired US Gen. Joe Hoar slammed the Israeli move, saying “It gets us involved in their covert war, whether we want to be involved or not.”
yhis even made it to the huffington post
Oh, please.
The Mossad takes the fall so that the US can have plausible denialibility.
Really? Why should the US shoot itself in the foot like that? No, Israel plays the game of the relative weakling in this, saying, "Let's you and him fight." The US citizenry is pretty uninterested in Iran. It is really not a topic of discussion among anyone I know – except for those keenly involved with Israel. Many Jews could care less. But there are some obsessed with the fate of Israel and they are going to be very enthusiastic about the US participating (as it seems to be) in taking down the Iranian regime, with Israel's encouragement, nay, goading.
US troops are being deployed in large numbers to Israel. Why is that? Do they have our back? Why would they? Do they have anyone's back but their own? Not in my experience. So we will be pushed into a situation where it's going to be impossible to ignore Iran. And then other countries (bigger and more powerful than either Iran or Israel) will take positions in the struggle. Think Russia and maybe China. Who knows what other ones. It's gonna be a bloodbath.
or…..
mossad is purposely trying to increase tensions between the US and Iran so as to get US soldiers to fight and die for israel and its racist goals of creating a purified jewish state on stolen palestinian land
Nu?
You think this is bad. Bring up USS Liberty. com. It's the story told by the particapents of how the Zionist tried to sink the USS Liberty blaming Egypt for it and then using propaganda in this country to get Americans to go to war with Egypt.
america plays with the israeli dogs and gets bitten with her fleas.
Once again, Israel shows its golem who's boss.
And again I have to ask: why are we allied with Israel? What have we gained as a result, and what have we lost in the balance? The ONLY thing that makes Israel noteworthy is their military, and more specifically, their nuclear weapons- that, I believe, is the only reason we give them our support- so they won't threaten US with those same weapons. "Keep your friends, close, but your enemies closer" as the old mafiosi say, and boy have we kept Israel close all these years.
Now, aside from the false-flag operation Mossad was running against us, what of Jundallah itself? It's a listed terrorist organization, and Israel provided material support to it which is clearly contrary to US laws and policies- but will Washington say a word about that? No, of course not. But if it came to light that, say, Venezuela or Cuba or Colombia or whatnot were providing the very same support the hue and cry from Washington would be deafening.
But Israel- hero of the USS Liberty attack- gets a pass. I think I'll vomit now.
Because Israel is our Jewish friend. USA being a Christian nation and the first Christians were Jews. Israel has not stolen Christian lands. But Muslims have stolen a lot of Christian land by force. Muslims have force conversion to Islam, force people to adopt Arab names and Muslims have killed millions of Christians since the begining of Islam. Do you need more reasons? But unfortunatelly these publication wont have the courage to publish it and you emotional Muslims can not handle the truth.
What century do you live in? And if you want to dwell in the Middle Ages, read up on the first crusades. The crusaders didn't just murder everyone in sight, they ate them. Also, Muslim conquests of Christian lands were fall less bloody than the other way around, and even led to mini-renaissance such as in Spain. The reconquista of Spain by Christian was genocidal affair leading up and through the Spanish Inquisition.
Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Muslim lands have been pretty much the victims of colonialism and post-colonial cold war geopolitics.
I think mr.fidalCastro-oil is right about muslims killing christians and other ethnicites by Millions and you do not need to go back to history like planias has siad in his response.
Just look at present day picture,since 1990..Musilimarmies invaded Iraq and so has killing by all means more than 2Million Irqis,They have been on a killing spree and them peeing on their dead bodoes of hundreds of thousands of Aghanis Chritians and Hindus and Jews.
You know what Castro when you wake up and get to your adult age try further your growth with reality and common sense.you will sure give this stupid historic lie that Islam forced people to convert,if it is true then why is Spain today dominent Christian country when Muslims had plenty of time like 700plus years to convert the whole damn Euro-continent.May God help you with your half brain creativeness.
you are an embarassment to the real castro
If the CIA were so outraged by this why didn't someone "drop a dime" to let the Iranians know what Mossad were up or better still "burn" the operation by telling the Iranians where to find the Mossad operatives.
BTW, this makes me wonder whether Mossad gave up the CIA spy network in Iran recently so that the CIA would become more dependent on Mossad intelligence about Iran. It would be good way of feeding complete bullshit to the CIA that the CIA could not verify.
similar op to 911.
This article is full of bullshit trying to exhonorate the number one terrorist state in the world by blaming Israel. Was it not Bush who allocated hundreds of dollars for covert operations in Iran?
Mr Ditz is a nice man, but why does he allow these lies to be published? Is Anti-war connected to the government? You keep this up, more and more people will lose trust ib you.
Puleeeze! Some readers are not as stupid as the writer of this article.
Not everyone in the U.S. is stupid and gullible. Iran is not a terrorist state. Iran has not attacked any country for more than 300 years! It is necessary that the citizens of the U.S. are made aware than Israel shows no concern for U.S. citizens only for U.S. tax dollars. No attack on Iran. If we could live witih nuclear bombs directed at the U.S., Israel can live wiith an Iranian nuclear bomb directed at Israel. After all, Israel stole technology and uranium from the U.S. for the development of its bombs.
To all the idiots posting against Israel, we do not need the Mossad to frame the USA to increase tensions with OUR enemy Iran. Dont forget the hostage crisis and specially all OUR MARINES, over 200 of them who were blown up in Beirut by Hezbollah ordered and finance by Iran. Iran has a lot of our blood in their hands in Iraq, Afganistan and has backed housed Alqueada terrorist and also harboring Bin Ladin's family in Iran. Iran is our Muslim enemy and the Muslims are enemy of Christians and Jews according the Koran.
". Iran has a lot of our blood in their hands in Iraq, Afganistan and …"
How can it be possible when you sound like an Israeli and not an American?
that notion actually turned out to be totally false as reported by the LA times back in 07 i believe
quote from Col. Timothy J. Geraghty, the commander of the Marines in Beirut during the incident….
"It is noteworthy that the United States provided direct naval gunfire support — which I strongly opposed for a week — to the Lebanese Army at a mountain village called Suq-al-Garb on September 19 and that the French conducted an air strike on September 23 in the Bekaa Valley. American support removed any lingering doubts of our neutrality, and I stated to my staff at the time that we were going to pay in blood for this decision".
The term is blowback.
Mr. Anders Behring Breivik is writing from his cell, I see.
Maybe you should read the Koran. Christians, and Jews, as "People of the Book" are respected as "believers" – it's the non-believers, like me, that are considered infidels.
If the marines hadn't been in Beirut they wouldn't have been blown up, would they? How do you "know" that Iran ordered the bombing? You state, as a fact, your own uninformed speculations!
Your type of propaganda won't fly on this website, as most readers here are educated as to what is REALLY happening, in the middle east and over the globe. We get our information from multiple reliable sources and not from narrow minded individuals with a religious agenda. Have a great day! Peace.
If I remember correctly, "Hezbollah" didn't even exist at the time of the Beirut bombing. There were Shite militias in southern Lebanon, but they weren't Hezbollah. And, Iran may have provided assistence, like the French assisted the American revolution, but since the Marines were there as a part of the Leboneese civil war and the US was bombing and using an old battleship to bomb Lebanon, I doubt that the only reason that happened was because Iran supposedly ordered it. When you get involved in someone else's war, expect to take some casualties. And only the really, really stupid monkeys would try to use that to start yet another war some 30 years later.
thats absolutely right. Hezbollah started in 85. Bombing was in 82. also it was carried out by lebanese themselves, not iranians….can you blame them for wanting foreign invaders out of there country?
That's what friends are for, right. I mean c'mon, what a lil fram-up between friends. That's what this special relationship is all about about. We give all the money, weapons, info we can, in turn they spy on us, frame us, ship us their "students" to do who knows what, insult us, etc.
Bush went ballistic? Baloney! Who better than putting American's at risk than him? He probably had to call israel and thank them for the opportunity to get framed.
Iran is our enemy, Iran ordered the killing of over 200 inocent marines in Lebanon that were under a UN resolution as peace keepers. Also they use Hezbollah operatives to bomb the Jewish center in Buenos Aires, again killing over 200 inocent Jewish civilians
More lies from Israel than anywhere else in the world!
Bullsh*t! Iran is NOT America's enemy. "Iran ordered the killing of over 200 innocent Marines in Lebanon…?" Okay, put up or STFU!
How can Iran have a lot of your countrymwn's blood on its hand when you sound like an Israeli, and not an American?
I see that the Hasbara is strong today.
Weak arbitrary statements from the pulpit that "Iran is the enemy", has killed x + y civilians, is involved in this or that attack, was harboring Bin Laden or is supporting "Al Qaeda", with the nuclear scare thrown into the mix?
Shtum about the article itself.
That Obi-Wan mindtrick won't work. Keeping in mind that OUR side's rapsheet is a list that would make the devil smile is a strong antidote, too.
All of this duplicity, this affinity for false flag ops, and unbridled hatred of its neighbors on the part of Israel – just gets me to wonder whether we were told the truth about what really happened on 9-11. (Note – I firmly have tongue in cheek as I write this).
Hey–what are friends for!
The only country that America should bomb back into the stone age is Israel. The world would be a much better place. Imagine a world without a racist, religious-fundamentalist state that has nuclear weapons, that torutures people, and which is constantly starting wars and attacking its neighbors. This isn't an 'anti-semetic' feeling. Instead its just sheer realism that either Israel needs to become a much nicer country or the world would be far better off without them. What does Israel have to do before the world realizes that Israel has indeed lost its right to exist?
My god. So you're saying DC needs a good bombing, too? They're kissing cousins.
Watch this video if you understand Russian and or Arabic
http://youtu.be/383J_oytjtA
By the way, it doesn't matter who did what, it's our tax money
That was paid out to Jundallah via Israeli Mossad.
I think this shows that the US government is upset with the Israelis. You don't frame your friends. That's not what friends do. They inflamed tensions and made the US look like a hypocrite on the issue. This is proof that Israel is a state sponsor of terrorism just like Iran.
Iran is far from Israel as far as terrorism goes they are a smart people without going to war except with Iraq and pushed by America.They even did not use the chemicle weapons Iraq did to win,shows they are not only smart but care for people.Why don't America and Israel show the same humain respect along with others.Thats up to the people to make happen by following your constitution and over ousting the tyranicle government.The law is on the civilians side.People million many million have died for the freedom you let them take at will.Show respect to the people that fought to make sure your laws are followed not shi! on.
Castro, you are such a pathetic creature. Do you have a grain of self-esteem? Look in the mirror once and check if you are a human or a snake. I’m sure your tong is forked. Hissssssssss
DeNile ain't just a river in Eretz Israel