Having read that the U.S. congress:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146342,00.html
is planning to finance and equip TERRORIST GROUPS (MEK)
with U.S. taxpayers' money, who will supposedly attack
the Iranians (who are all hairy and bearded, and thus evil),
I feel compelled to point out that Al Qaeda was originally
also a U.S. creation, both financed, trained and equipped
by our very own CIA.
Financing and training of terrorist groups is what
brought U.S. into the current mess in the first place.
Now we are about to repeat that mistake and get even
more well funded and armed terrorist groups, thanks to
the U.S. congress sponsoring and funding them as part
of the "War on Terror" and "the freedom marching" thing.
Have we _all_ failed to learn anything from history?
_Encouraging terrorism_, while attempting to fight it,
is not a sane idea. The very thought of it is ghastly
in it's stupidity and _repeating the mistake_ surely
surp***** any previous deeds these people may have done.
Financing and sup****ting known terrorist groups is both
illegal and criminal under both international and the
United States laws and perpetrators should spend some
serious time behind the bars.
I sincerely hope that this congress is not stupid enough
to pay for the creation of yet another terrorist group
like Al Qaeda and help it get trained, financed and
armed by our very own people, who undoubtedly will one
day get to face those very same deadly weapons.
All anti-terrorism experts agree that the best way to
fight terrorism, is to target and cut the sources of
their funding. - Why then, is a United States senator
proposing the funding, arming and creation of more
illegal terrorist groups on this Earth. Hasn't Al Qaeda
already shown that terrorists know no loyalty. They
will bite the hand that fed them, just as well as
those you intended.
The moment and the time to stop yet another terrorist
group from being financed and armed with U.S. weapons
to attack more innocent people around the world is now.
Call and e-mail your congress representatives to stop
this utter insanity from happening.
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146342,00.html
>
> Capitol Hill Mulls 'Regime Change' in Iran Friday, February 04, 2005 By
> Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
>
> WA****NGTON ~W Though the Bush administration denies it has any designs
on
> changing Iran's theocracy, members of Congress are planning ways to
assist in
> a possible "regime change."
>
> Movements are afoot in both the House and Senate to pass legislation
that
> would enable the U.S. government to sup****t foreign and domestic
> pro-democracy groups opposed to the current Islamic republic of Iran.
>
> Aides for Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said the senator is drafting
> legislation that would resemble a bill he introduced in the last
> congressional session, the "Iran Freedom and Sup****t Act." Though the
> language in the new bill is being worked out, it is expected to echo the
> prior bill in that it would include financial assistance for opposition
> groups. The original bill did not make it to the Senate floor.
....
> Another question posed is which opposition group would be eligible for
the
> help. The Mujahhedin e-Khalq, which has been fighting in exile against
the
> ayotollahs since 1979, primarily from their base in Iraq, are sup****ted
by
> the National Council of Resistance of Iran, also in exile. Lawmakers
like
> Ros-Lehtinen have expressed sup****t for the MEK in the past.
>
> But the MEK remains on the State Department's list of terrorist
organizations
> and is not a favorite of pro-Iranian reformers like Schwartz. "They are
a
> Marxist cult," he charged.
>
> Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian-American formally associated with the
NCRI,
> does not agree, and said the MEK should be taken off the terrorist list
and
> given the assistance to overthrow the ayotollahs because they are the
only
> ones with the means to do it.
>
> "Since the Iraq war, the MEK has actually turned over all of its weapons
to
> the U.S. military in Iraq and did not fight the Americans," he said,
noting
> that the MEK has assisted the Americans with intelligence on the border.
"I
> think any serious ****ft in policy toward Iran, which would include
regime
> change, should review the status of MEK."
>
> http://www.spacewar.com/news/iran-05c.html
>
> Cat And Mouse Game Over Iran
....
>
> They claimed the Kurds operating from Kurdistan, in areas they control.
The
> second group, working from the south, is the Mujahedeen-e Khalq, listed
by
> the State Department as a terrorist group, operating from southern Iraq,
> these sources said.
>
> The use of the MEK for U.S.-intelligence-gathering missions strikes some
> former U.S. intelligence officials as bizarre. The State Department's
annual
> publication, "Patterns of Global Terrorism," lists them as a terrorist
> organization.
>
> According to the State Department re****t, the MEK were allies with Iraqi
> dictator Saddam Hussein in fighting Iran and, in addition, "assisted
Saddam
> in "suppressing opposition within Iraq, and performed internal security
for
> the Iraqi regime."
>
> After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, U.S. forces seized and
> destroyed MEK munitions and weapons, and about 4,000 MEK operatives were
> "consolidated, detained, disarmed, and screened for any past terrorist
acts,
> the re****t said.
>
> Shortly afterwards, the Bush administration began to use them in its
covert
> operations against Iran, former senior U.S. intelligence officials said.
>
> "They've been active in the south for some time," said former CIA
> counterterrorism chi ef, Vince Cannistraro.
>
> The MEK are said to be currently launching raids from Camp Habib in
Basra,
> but recently Pakistan President Pervez Musharaff granted permission for
the
> MEK to operate from Pakistan's Baluchi area, U.S. officials said.
>
> Asked about the Musharaff decision, Laipson said: "Not a smart move. The
last
> thing he (Musharaff) needs is another batch of hotheads on Pakistani
soil."
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