Former US spy confirms Rigi's CIA link, rejects ties
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:05:23 GMT
A former US intelligence official has admitted that CIA operatives in Pakistan had held talks with the Jundallah terrorist group led by Abdolmalek Rigi.
一名前美國情報官員已承認，在巴基斯坦的中情局特工已舉行會談，與恐怖組織真主旅領導瑞吉。
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, a senior Jundallah member, acting on Rigi's behalf, approached CIA agents in Pakistan and told them the group would help the US against both Iran and al-Qaeda, prominent US weekly magazine Newsweek reveals in its March 1 issue.
The former US official, who has asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the information he was providing, said that the Jundallah representative suggested that the group would kidnap leaders of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and al-Qaeda and turn them over to the Americans.
However, according to the former official, US officials ”flatly" rejected any relationship with the group but "the door was left slightly ajar in case Jundallah really did capture important al-Qaeda operatives."
US observers say such double-talk by US officials and deliberately publicized by a major magazine that is known to be heavily influenced by the Israeli lobby in Washington, is nothing new. The obvious intent of such 'news' items is to divert attention from facts and the overwhelming evidence that point to the collusion between Rigi and Washington.
Newsweek magazine is the subsidiary of another major news outlet in the US, The Washington Post. The are known to have a "liberal agenda" and reflect the views and values of the Democratic Party, which is heavily influenced by the pro-Israel Jewish lobby.
Last week, Iranian security forces captured ringleader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, while he was on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan.
Rigi, whose group has accepted responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian civilians and security forces in southeast Iran, said after his arrest that he enjoyed the backing of Western intelligence agencies in committing acts of terror against Iran.
In a televised confession Rigi said that in a Dubai meeting with CIA agents, they promised to provide him with a military base anywhere near the Iranian border equipped with weaponry and training facilities.
"After Obama was elected, the Americans contacted us and they met me in Pakistan…. They said they would cooperate with us and will give me military equipment, arms and machine guns. They also promised to give us a base along the border with Afghanistan next to Iran," he said.
The terrorist leader emphasized that in their meetings with him, US operatives insisted that Iran is their primary focus in the region, even more important than al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
According to Rigi's confessions, CIA agents also explained to him that since a US military attack on Iran would be very difficult, they intend to support all anti-Iran groups that have the capability of waging war inside Iran and to destabilize the country.
While the Newsweek story rejects Rigi's confessions as "complete nonsense," quoting the US State Department spokesman P J Crowley, it does not bother to explain the evidence that he was carrying a US-issued Afghan passport, as well as why he was flying to Kyrgyzstan, where the US operates a major military facility.
MJ/MB
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五角大樓否認與真主旅恐怖分子有聯繫
Pentagon denies links with Jundallah terrorists
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:05:05 GMT
Abdolmalek Rigi and his Jundallah terror group have been the main cause of the killing of civilians in Iran in recent years.The Pentagon has denied offering political and financial support to the Jundallah terrorist group as part of efforts to weaken the Tehran government.
五角大樓已否認提供政治和財政支持給真主旅恐怖組織，作為一部分努力削弱德黑蘭政府。
After five months of tireless efforts, Iranian security officials managed to track down Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist organization, while he was onboard a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday.
Iran's Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said Rigi was at a US base in Afghanistan 24 hours before his arrest and was carrying a forged Afghan passport issued by the US at the time of his capture.
In a televised statement broadcasted on Press TV on Thursday, Rigi confirmed that the US administration had promised to provide him with unlimited military aid and funding for his terrorist activities against the Iranian government.
“They said they would cooperate with us and will give me military equipment, arms and machine guns. They also promised to give us a base along the border with Afghanistan next to Iran," said the 31-year-old terror leader.
“They [were] prepared to give [us] training and/or any assistance that [we] would require, in terms of telecommunications security and procedures as well as other support, the Americans said they would be willing to provide it at an extensive level," he added.
Despite Rigi's detailed confession and a photo taken by Iranian security officials, which clearly showed the terrorist leader entering a US base in Afghanistan a day before his arrest, the Pentagon has chosen to reject the claims.
"Iranian claims that Abdolmalek Rigi was at a US military installation prior to being apprehended are absolutely false," said Pentagon press secretary, Geoff Morrell.
He added that these accusations are nothing but “fabrications” and “propaganda” emanating from Iranian officials.
This is while an ABC News piece reported in 2007 that the Jundullah terrorist cell 'has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials' to destabilize the government in Iran.
In another report in July, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that US Congressional leaders secretly agreed to George W. Bush's $400-million funding request last year for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran.
But the latest of the revelations came from Robert Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, who disclosed in October 2009 that Washington had formed relations with the Jundallah group, despite having full knowledge of its terrorist nature.
"American intelligence has also had contact with Jundallah. But that contact, as Iran almost certainly knows, was confined to intelligence-gathering on the country," Baer wrote on the Time.com.
Baer said the close relations between the US and the terror group were to such extent that Jundallah had once been considered "as a piece in a covert-action campaign against Iran."
Jundallah terrorists, which are said to be closely affiliated with the notorious al-Qaeda organization, have claimed responsibility for dozens of bombings, assassination attempts, and terrorist attacks in Iran, one of which killed at least 40 people in the southeastern city of Pishin in October.
The Asia Times reported in May that al-Qaeda militants had sought to establish an alliance with the exiled Jundallah to fulfill longstanding plans of creating a strategic corridor in the region and pave the way for joint regional operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
SBB/DT
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