The Iranian government is reporting today that Abdulmalek Rigi, the founder and leader of the Jundallah militant group, was turned over to their custody today following his arrest. Rigi was reportedly arrest on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.
Jundallah is a Baloch separatist group responsible for several major attacks, including the destruction of a Shi’ite mosque in Zahedan during the election campaign last year. US officials have privately confirmed having secretly encouraged and advised Jundallah for years.
But exactly how deep America’s ties to the group were or are is unclear. Rigi’s younger brother, Abdulhamid Rigi, who was captured by Iran last year, claimed that the US provided direct funding to the group after it broke off ties with al-Qaeda in 2003 and that US officials even ordered specific terrorist attacks inside Iran.
Though the group’s attacks have been virtually exclusively against Iran, they are also known to operate inside Pakistan. The Iranian government has also claimed that the US gives the group safe haven in neighboring Afghanistan and even provided Rigi with an Afghan passport.
Jundallah and Iran reportedly held secret talks earlier this month in Dubai, though the talks apparently ended without an agreement and Jundallah issued a statement last week pledging new attacks against the Shi’ite government.
quickly we need to invade Afghanistan to rid the world of this terrorist threat and then we need invade the country is supporting and financing these terrorist!!
Right on. We need to quit giving aid to that little terrorist warmonger country that is always agitating trouble somewhere.
Um, aside from the word "little" that perfectly describes the USA.
How can we invade ourselves? We already live here!
i agree paul but we need too do it the right way first buy listing too the people not the war machine
1- Is any of you guys have asked the question why Blackwater, CIA is in Pakistan or for that matter Mr. Prince new name of his mercenaries Ex or for that matter any other English or American stats department mercenaries’ contractors are in the area and actively helping these AHs… why is it that Hillary Clinton is keeping her silence about these groups and not talking about Exs or Blackwater..? Look, Iran and its Islamic infrastructures has become a power to be recognized, they are not going away so is the Turkish Islamic government nor the Israel apartheids regime; however, as long as these little groups are out there and economically helped by the US or the Israelis and the Europeans government the turmoil is going to be there which is the idea behind helping these groups, Bill Clinton, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush, Cheney, Tony Blair, Sarkozi and anyone from left to the right of the aisle knows that if they lose then they don’t have any dictating power left in middle east.
2- This has been the core in foreign policies of the Europeans and US for last 50 years implemented in many forms and shape to keep the turmoil a on going problem. The Europeans nor the Americans controlled media are not going to talk about the issues simply because is not in their economical nor their social cultural interests to do so, but from time to time they will give the people a exciting news about this and other groups existence to either scare them or have them help these groups in any way they can.
Gustes is absolutely correct. The goal of US foreign policy, CIA and military interventions is precisely to create and perpetuate instability. Without this instability and resulting expenditures, there would be no profit for contractors, career enhancement for stars in the military and suits in the think tanks, CIA and State Department, political pork distributed by Congress or fearmongering to control the electorate.
It is as Olbermann said long ago, "The purpose of Iraq War was … to have a war in Iraq."