Absolute nonsense!
Israel has described as 'absolute nonsense' a report in Foreign Policy by Mark Perry, a former aide to Yasser Arafat, that claimed that Mossad agents posed as CIA agents to recruit Jundallah terrorists to carry out operations in Iran (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). A senior Israeli government official has called "absolute nonsense" a Friday report in Foreign Policy that Mossad agents posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations and attacks against the regime in Iran.Poor Mark Perry. He's been trying so hard to help Iran....
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Israel generally refrains for responding to reports on alleged Mossad activities. However, in the wake of Perry's report as well as the official U.S. condemnation of the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran earlier this week, Israeli officials were quick to issue a complete denial of the report.
The concern was that leaving Perry's report without a response would revive tensions that existed between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities following the Jonathan Pollard affair in the 1980s. Pollard was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison after being convicted of spying for Israel.
The senior Israeli government official said that if there were any truth the claims in Perry's report, Meir Dagan, the head of the Mossad at the time of the alleged operation, would have been declared a persona non grata in the U.S. and that "Dagan's foot would not have walked again in Washington".
Labels: CIA, Iranian nuclear threat, Jundullah, Meir Dagan, Mossad
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:11 PM
1 Comments:
Silence would have been a better reply.
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