Forwarded:
Preparing the Battlefield
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
http://www.newyorker.com/re****ting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
Did you see the recent Reuters piece about the covert operations that
the US has been involved with in Iraq according to Seymour as he has
an article about such in latest issue the New Yorker (see the link
above). I had tried to get Lara Logan (chief foreign correspondent for
the CBS Evening News) to do a segment about the US sponsor****p of such
and was also in touch with Michael Ware of CNN trying to get him to
cover such as well (to no avail with him either). Based on the
following Huffingtonpost.com URL I can assume that both Lara and
Michael had other matters on their minds:
Lara Logan, Michael Ware Involved In Steamy Baghdad Love Triangle:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/26/lara-logan-michael-ware-i_n_109331.html
Friend General Janis Karpinski of Abu Ghraib had told me that she was
in charge of guarding the MEK in Iraq and that Condi Rice was in the
loop with such as well.. The following article is most interesting as
well (note the Israeli mention):
Subverting Iran:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070323&articleId=5165
Here is the Reuters article (couldn't locate a URL yet though but will
post one if I can find one!):
U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran - re****t (Reuters) 2
hours, 40 minutes ago
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George
W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations
against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leader****p, according to a
re****t in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
The article by re****ter Seymour Hersh, from the magazine's July 7 and
14 issue, centers around a highly classified Presidential Finding
signed by Bush which by U.S. law must be made known to Democratic and
Republican House and Senate leaders and ranking members of the
intelligence committees.
"The Finding was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and
trying to undermine the government through regime change," the article
cited a person familiar with its contents as saying, and involved
"working with opposition groups and passing money."
Hersh has written previously about possible administration plans to go
to war to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, including an
April 2006 article in the New Yorker that suggested regime change in
Iran, whether by diplomatic or military means, was Bush's ultimate
goal.
Funding for the covert escalation, for which Bush requested up to $400
million, was approved by congressional leaders, according to the
article, citing current and former military, intelligence and
congressional sources.
Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. U.S. Special
Operations Forces have been conducting crossborder operations from
southern Iraq since last year, the article said.
These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for
interrogation, and the pursuit of "high-value targets" in Bush's war
on terrorism, who may be captured or killed, according to the article.
But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which include
the Central Intelligence Agency, have now been significantly expanded,
the article said, citing current and former officials.
Many of these activities are not specified in the new finding, and
some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their
nature, it said.
Among groups inside Iran benefiting from U.S. sup****t is the
Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People's Resistance Movement,
according to former CIA officer Robert Baer. Council on Foreign
Relations analyst Vali Nasr described it to Hersh as a vicious
organization suspected of links to al Qaeda.
The article said U.S. sup****t for the dissident groups could prompt a
violent crackdown by Iran, which could give the Bush administration a
reason to intervene.
None of the Democratic leaders in Congress would comment on the
finding, the article said. The White House, which has repeatedly
denied preparing for military action against Iran, and the CIA also
declined comment.
The United States is leading international efforts to rein in Iran's
suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons, although Wa****ngton
concedes Iran has the right to develop nuclear power for civilian
uses.
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