Tuesday, March 2, 2010

“The Iranians are to Jundullah as termites are to wood,”

Declassified/ here
"....... The big question, of course, is whether Rigi was actually “confessing” or merely reciting what his Iranian captors wanted him to say. (The New York Times reported that the interview may have been intended to stir up anti-American sentiments within Iran.) Either way, Obama administration officials, like their Bush administration predecessors, have emphatically denied that U.S. agencies have ever been involved in any operations with Jundullah. They say that years ago the group was deemed too violent and untrustworthy by American intelligence. Current and former officials also say they suspect the group has been thoroughly infiltrated by Iranian intelligence.
The Iranians are to Jundullah as termites are to wood,” a U.S. counterterrorism official told Declassified. “The group is hopelessly penetrated, and its methods don’t accord with those of the United States.”
In 2007, ABC News reported that Jundullah, which at the time was allegedly conducting bombing and other guerrilla operations inside Iran, had been secretly encouraged and advised by U.S. officials over a two-year period. U.S. officials denied the ABC report before congressional committees.
In his purported confession, Rigi suggested that when his plane was intercepted, he was on his way to a meeting at a U.S. airbase in Kyrgyzstan with a senior U.S. official, identified in some Iranian news reports as Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special diplomatic representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan............P. J. Crowley told Declassified that such reports were "complete nonsense."

1 comment:

b said...

"complete nonsense" -

only that Holbrooke was indeed in Kyrgyzstan ...

http://en.trend.az/regions/casia/kyrgyzstan/1645144.html