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01-04-2006, 01:13 PM

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Islamic Group Kidnaps 9 Iranian Soldiers

Islamic Group Kidnaps 9 Iranian Soldiers, Reportedly Threatens to Kill Them Unless Members Released

By MARIAM SAMI

The Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic militant group kidnapped nine Iranian soldiers near that country's border with Pakistan, and Al-Arabiya said Wednesday the group threatened to kill them unless the Tehran government released 16 members from prison. The channel broadcast footage purportedly showing the nine soldiers, who were sitting on the ground in front of a mound of rubble. The newscaster said a spokesman for the group, "Jundallah," or God's Brigade, had warned the soldiers would be killed unless the government released the group's members.
Viewers did not hear the spokesman's voice because the sound on the videotape was muted. The channel quoted the soldiers as appealing to their government to grant their kidnappers' demand.
A producer at Al-Arabiya's headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, told The Associated Press that a threat to kill the soldiers was audible on the tape, but the speaker was not shown.
The producer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said the channel had edited out "a few disturbing pictures," including one of the kidnappers holding a knife to a soldier's neck.
The producer said the channel received the tape Wednesday but would not say how it was obtained.
In Tehran, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi was optimistic Wednesday that the soldiers would be freed.
"The case has been reviewed by the country's Security Council and the investigation is continuing. There is hope that the issue can be solved in a peaceful way," the minister said.
A person claiming to speak on behalf of Jundallah announced the kidnapping in a call to Al-Arabiya on Sunday. The caller said the group had seized the soldiers near the Iranian-Pakistani border in the eastern province of Baluchistan.
The government confirmed the abduction Monday and vowed to do its best to get the soldiers released.
A group with the same name is suspected of numerous terror attacks in Pakistan, but it had not previously been known to operate in Iran.
The eastern part of Iran has been the scene of frequent clashes between police and drug smugglers and related bandits.

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kraf001

01-04-2006, 08:12 PM

CIA-Mossad Sponsored “Rebels” Attack Iran’s Border
by repost Tuesday, Jan. 03, 2006 at 12:10 AM

by Kurt Nimmo

It makes perfect sense for the CIA to be attracted to Iran’s Baluchistan province. First, the area has well established drug smuggling routes—and the CIA has an insatiable hunger for profits to be gleaned from illegal drugs—and second Baluchistan is a neglected tribal backwater where Hanafi Sunni Islam has a foothold in contrast to Iran’s Shia majority. In other words, Iran’s Sistan Baluchistan province is a perfect place to stir up trouble and make some money for covert ops in the process. As evidence the CIA has been busy at work in the province, back in 2002 the neocon-Israel friendly DEBKAfile (http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=153) reported “a CIA undercover unit has entered Iran through Zabul, in the Sistan Baluchistan province. Its assignment is to stir up dissent among the largest population in the area, the Baluchi tribes.” Moreover, according to DEBKAfile, in December of 2001 “al Qaeda fugitives, including some 4,000 Saudis, began using these obscure [drug smuggling] routes on their way from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Lebanon and other points in the Middle East. The CIA’s undercover unit has undertaken the tall order of closing this al Qaeda escape route, while gathering intelligence on its nefarious traffic.” In other words, the CIA is working hand-in-glove with “al-Qaeda” (a term used to describe useful idiot Muslim fanatics and patsies), probably smuggling drugs and also importing “dissent” among the Sunni Baluchi tribes, who hate and distrust the Shia regime in Tehran.
Now the Khaleej Times (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/January/middleeast_January23.xml&section=middleeast&col=) reports “Iran on Sunday confirmed that nine of its soldiers were ‘missing’ after a little-known Sunni Muslim rebel group said it had kidnapped them, the official IRNA news agency reported…. On Saturday a caller speaking for the Jundollah (God’s Soldiers) told the Al Arabiya television station that the group wanted Tehran to release 16 of its jailed members in exchange for the soldiers.” A Google search on Jundollah turns up little except a mention that the shadowy group is also active in Kurdish areas. As has been well-documented, Israeli “military and intelligence operatives are active in Kurdish areas of Iran, Syria and Iraq, providing training for commando units and running covert operations that could further destabilize the entire region,” according to the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1243588,00.html), citing ace reporter Seymour Hersh. Of course, for the Straussian neocons and their Jabotinsky Zionist fellow travelers and mentors in Israel, the current “effort” in the region is all about destabilizing the entire region.
It is also well-known that the CIA and Israel’s Mossad share a special if murderous relationship and undoubtedly work together plotting and executing covert and black ops in the neighborhood. The CIA’s “ties with the Israeli Mossad date as far back as 1951,” writes Dean Klovens (http://www.meib.org/articles/0101_ip1.htm) for the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. One of the more infamous collaborations between the two spook agencies occurred in 1986 when the La Belle disco was bombed in Berlin, killing two American soldiers and providing a handy pretext for Reagan to attack Libya, killing at least 30 civilians, including many children. In 1998, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF television) ran a documentary presenting “compelling evidence that some of the main suspects in the 1986 Berlin disco bombing… worked for American and Israeli intelligence,” a German correspondent (http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/bomb1-a27.shtml) writing for WSWS reported at time.
It is also assumed the CIA and Mossad, along with the Israeli military, collaborated on the assassination of the elected president of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, who was in fact a Phalange (fascist) stooge for the Zionist state (Gemayel’s assassination was pinned on Habib Tanious Shartouni, a member of the pro-Damascus Syrian Social Nationalist Party and an alleged agent for Syrian intelligence). It should be noted that former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, John Gunther Dean, had urged Gemayel “to stop seeing Israeli Mossad officers,” according to the North Korea Times (http://story.northkoreatimes.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/ed2833276bccc267/), and thus earned the wrath of the Zionist state. As a result, according to Dean, Mossad attempted to kill him and his family on August 27, 1980. Dean also blames Mossad for the assassination of Pakistan’s president, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and a U.S. general were also killed in the plane crash that claimed Zia-ul-Haq’s life).
For many Muslims, it is a no-brainer that the CIA-Mossad (and Britain’s MI6 and Australia’s Special Action Police) axis is behind the creation and spawning of Islamic terrorist organizations. “It is clear that the CIA and the Mossad have infiltrated such organizations and have done much more than that,” Sayed Abdullah (http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-04/21/article06.shtml), who operates an intelligence service firm based on the Indonesian island of Maluku, told Kazi Mahmood of the IslamOnline website. Specifically, in regard to the first Bali bombings, Abdullah singles out Omar al-Faruq as a Mossad-CIA operative who infiltrated Jemaah Islamiyah, itself long ago compromised by Indonesian intelligence (see John Sidel (http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/829.cfm), Cracking Down in Indonesia, the Jakarta Post). A.C. Manulang, a former Indonesian State Intelligence Coordinating Board chief, also accuses al-Faruq of working for the CIA. “Anti-Islam intelligence agencies committed the bombings in Indonesia. They have been trained for this and they are very organized,” Manulang told Tempo Interactive (http://www.prisonplanet.com/omar_al_faruq_recruited_by_the_cia.htm).
It is interesting that at approximately the same time we learn of the “kidnapping” of Iranian border guards in Iran’s Baluchistan province by a little-known Sunni terrorist group, we also discover that “al-Qaeda,” the Sunni Wahabbi wonder creation of the CIA (or the smoke and mirrors visage of a fearsome terrorist group), is busy at work in Gaza. “Al Qaeda operatives are establishing a base in Gaza for launching attacks against Israel and neighboring pro-American Arab regimes, current and former Israeli security officials say,” the pro-Zionist Forward (http://www.forward.com/articles/7081) reports. “Officials in Jerusalem and Washington are following this development with concern, Israeli and American sources said. They see the move as part of Al Qaeda’s long-term plan to attack U.S. interests in the region. Using Gaza as a base of operations, Al Qaeda would be able to launch attacks against Israel, as well as against Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Israeli and American terrorism experts say.” Of course, the conclusion is that the recent violence in Gaza by the Palestinians was instigated by al-CIA-duh. “They are already there to take advantage of the negative potential in Gaza: the instability, the chaos, the lack of Palestinian Authority control. They will use it to establish an operational base or to control, from there, Al Qaeda cells in the West Bank,” retired Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya’alon told the Forward. Of course, the Forward does not bother to mention that the Israelis were caught red-handed in 2002 operating a fake “al-Qaeda” cell in Gaza, as Agence France-Presse (http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/:http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/08/1038950271656.html) reported at the time.
If we can be certain of anything, it is that the Straussian neocons and their Likudite allies, working together with the CIA and Mossad, who engineered the current virulent strain of Islamic terrorism, will continue to unleash violence in preparation for the Strausscon version of World War Four. The Baluchistan province incident is simply another small indication that the United States and Israel, working together on the Zionist master plan to destabilize the Muslim world, are chipping away at Iran’s border security as they prepare to attack the country and ultimately open the gates for the sort of chaos and violence required to splinter and balkanize the region into small tribal serfdoms malleable to rule by tribal clients who follow to the letter the diktat of Zionists and their neoliberal collaborators in Tel Aviv and Washington.

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