As reported here by Democracy Now, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh uncovered a program by the US Government to train an Iranian opposition group at a secret site in Nevada. And this group is listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department! One look at the group's name, Mujahideen-e-Khalq, and it's not hard to see why they would put it on that list.
As stated on Democracy Now's website: "The training included intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics". In other words, they were trained to carry out insurgency and terrorist operations. An NBC article implicated MEK in the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists, and was backed by US officials: "All your inclinations are correct", said one.
Now normally I would say that this is another case of Americans having historical amnesia, but the fact that this training program took place during the Bush Administration destroys that theory. To me this looks plainly obvious that they simply do not care about terrorism. Their last experience training jihadists to fight an enemy in a country they are presently fighting a war in came back to bite them in Kenya, Yemen, and New York City. It was this policy of training radicals that ulitmately led to the deaths of nearly three thousand American citizens, starting the new "War On Terror", only to have the president that declared it training more terrorists! On American soil! I can't find an example of when this was ever done before. Who's to know what connections these Jihadists had or made during their time in the US or what implications they could have on terrorist attacks on US soil.
Let's be realistic and say that the American government is not stupid. People can call Bush an idiot all they like (I believe it's all an act), but we cannot discredit every official in that Administration in the same manner. If we cannot blame stupidity on this act, then we must go to the next conclusion, which is to say that terrorism is obviously not a national priority, as they led everyone to believe. The deaths of some American citizens (even three thosand) does not have any immediate economic or military consequences to the power structure. Bush demonstrated that, instead, it is a very useful tool, allowing the government to manipulate and marshall the population to war wherever they like. And it was known that these wars would, and did, actually increase terrorism instead of stop it.
So keep your eyes open for the initials MEK, because like they did thirty years ago, Jihadists don't look out for anyone's interests but their own.
UPDATE: see my above post for more info on this.
Now normally I would say that this is another case of Americans having historical amnesia, but the fact that this training program took place during the Bush Administration destroys that theory. To me this looks plainly obvious that they simply do not care about terrorism. Their last experience training jihadists to fight an enemy in a country they are presently fighting a war in came back to bite them in Kenya, Yemen, and New York City. It was this policy of training radicals that ulitmately led to the deaths of nearly three thousand American citizens, starting the new "War On Terror", only to have the president that declared it training more terrorists! On American soil! I can't find an example of when this was ever done before. Who's to know what connections these Jihadists had or made during their time in the US or what implications they could have on terrorist attacks on US soil.
Let's be realistic and say that the American government is not stupid. People can call Bush an idiot all they like (I believe it's all an act), but we cannot discredit every official in that Administration in the same manner. If we cannot blame stupidity on this act, then we must go to the next conclusion, which is to say that terrorism is obviously not a national priority, as they led everyone to believe. The deaths of some American citizens (even three thosand) does not have any immediate economic or military consequences to the power structure. Bush demonstrated that, instead, it is a very useful tool, allowing the government to manipulate and marshall the population to war wherever they like. And it was known that these wars would, and did, actually increase terrorism instead of stop it.
So keep your eyes open for the initials MEK, because like they did thirty years ago, Jihadists don't look out for anyone's interests but their own.
UPDATE: see my above post for more info on this.
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