Cheney's Secret War In Iran
It's getting close to the Fourth of July and you can bet Vice President Cheney will be enjoying his secure undisclosed location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. You can also bet that he will be monitoring a bizarre secret dance with Al Qaeda that is currently going on. This morning's New York Times reports the frustration CIA officers have in not being able to pursue Al Qaeda into the Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
A (new plan) was meant to pave a smoother path into the tribal areas for American commandos, who for years have bristled at what they see as Washington's risk-averse attitude toward Special Operations missions inside Pakistan. They also argue that catching Mr. bin Laden will come only by capturing some of his senior lieutenants alive. But more than six months later, the Special Operations forces are still waiting for the green light.
This did not make much sense until I read Sy Hersh's new piece in The New Yorker about Vice President Cheney's secret war inside Iran. Here, Cheney is using Al Quaeda linked Sunni groups inside Iran to violently harrass the majority Shiite's into over-reacting, thereby giving the US a "cassus belli" to attack Iran.
The Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident organizations in Iran even when there was reason to believe that the groups had operated against American interests in the past. The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. "The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda," Baertold me. "These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers--in this case, it's Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we're once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the nineteen-eighties." Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th attacks, are Baluchi Sunni fundamentalists.While Cheney uses the Baluchi's , supplied from their home base in Baluchistan in Southwest Pakistan, and the even more Al Qaeda trained, Jundallah, to kill Revolutionary Guards inside Iran, the normal military chain of command is kept completely out of the loop. Two months ago, Admiral William Fallon, head of Centcom, resigned over differences with Cheney on Iran policy.
Fallon's early retirement, however, appears to have been provoked not only by his negative comments about bombing Iran but also by his strong belief in the chain of command and his insistence on being informed about Special Operations in his area of responsibility.
It's bad enough that the commander of all forces in the Mid-East is kept out of the loop, but what's worse is that congress is totally AWOL on this whole operation.
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership.My conclusion on this is that Cheney's seeming Attention Deficit to capturing Bin Laden may have a darker side. His desire to provoke a war with the Shiite regime in Tehran, means he is willing to quietly ally with the perpetrators of 9/11 operating out of the Tribal Areas of Pakistan to achieve his larger goal. According to Hersh, four Democrats, in the so called Gang of Eight that signs off on top secret operations--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes--have gone along with Cheney and provided the $400 million for this operation. It's time for Congress to make a decision whether we are going to war with Iran.
It is not for Dick Cheney and the Gang of Eight to decide.

















Why is it always Pelosi and Rockefeller behind stuff like this? First FISA and now a secret war? Why can't we find legitimate primary contenders for these seats?
June 30, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
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June 30, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
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January 18, 2011 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose no one in Washington can imagine the Iranians sinking one of our carriers in the Persian Gulf. How'd you like to be the president who has to tell the American people that we've lost a carrier for the first time since World War II?
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June 30, 2008 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
You bring up a frightening prospect: I seem to remember a missile being tested during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Southern Lebanon in '06, with some stark results. I can't imagine Hezbollah fired a home-grown missile and achieved the results they did. We know who their suppliers are...
June 30, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who thinks this would be the first time Cheney & Co. have used the services of bin Laden?
June 30, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
From this and other blogs it looks like Congress is in lock step with the Regime, no push back, no oversight, no government, no hope.
June 30, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Our compliant media and the "expert" mouthpieces present us with a FALSE DILEMMA, according to which we either have to sanction/bomb Iran or else face being nuked by Iran. This is simply not the case.
Not only are Iran's centrifuges under IAEA safeguards but Iran has made perfectly reasonable compromise suggestions to resolve the standoff that is widely endorsed by American and international experts: multilateral enrichment on Iranian soil.
This was one of many Iranian compromise offers that the US has refused to even acknowledge, along with Iran's 2003 comprehensive peace offer (which Rice falsely claimed she had never seen.)
Read more at http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/05/opinion/edzarif.php and http://www.IranAffairs.com
June 30, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hass's comments are absolutely on target. My question is, when the dust settles january 21, 2009, will they all be brought up on war crimes charges, if not here, then at the Hague?
June 30, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
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June 30, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
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You speak with forked tongue, kimosabe. Looks like Congress is rarin' to go, or have others go, and die, rather. The Congress is now considering Democratic-intduced bills to institute a blockade of Iran, an act of war.
So don't blame Cheney for what the Dems do.
June 30, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
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