Report: Mossad training Iranian exiles in Kurdistan
A report in France's
Le Figaro indicates that the Mossad is training Iranian exiles in Kurdistan to
oppose the Iranian regime.
The article in Le Figaro claims that the Iranian assets are being prepared for conducting operations inside the energy-rich country, as part of Israel’s undercover intelligence war against Iran’s nuclear energy program. The Baghdad source told the French daily that part of Israel’s sabotage program against sensitive Iranian nuclear facilities, which includes targeted assassinations of Iranian nuclear experts, is directed out of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, “where [Mossad] agents have stepped up their penetration”. For this, “the Israelis are using Kurdish oppositionists to the regime in Iran, who are living are refugees in the Kurdish regions of Iraq”, the source told Le Figaro. Although the article makes no mention of official or unofficial sanction of the Israeli operations by the Iraqi Kurdish authorities, it implies that the alleged Mossad activities are an open secret in Iraqi Kurdistan. This is not the first time that allegations have surfaced in the international press about Israeli intelligence activities in Kurdistan. In 2006, the BBC flagship investigative television program Newsnight obtained strong evidence of Israeli operatives providing military training to Kurdish militia members. The program aired video footage showing Israeli expects drilling members of Kurdish armed groups in shooting techniques and guerrilla tactics. The Israeli government denied having authorized any such training, while Iraqi Kurdish officials refused to comment on the report. But Israeli security experts told the BBC that it would be virtually impossible for Israeli trainers to operate inside Iraqi Kurdistan “without the knowledge of the Kurdish authorities”. More recently, in September of 2010, the government of Lebanon arrested three Kurds in Jounieh, a coastal town 15 kilometers north of Beirut, which it accused of working for Israeli intelligence. All three were members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a secessionist armed group fighting for an independent Kurdish homeland in Turkey’s far-eastern Anatolia region.
Hmmm.
Labels: Iranian Kurds, Iranian nuclear threat, Mossad, sabotage
Mossad recruiting Kurds to spy on Iran's nuclear program
France's Le Figaro reports that the Mossad is recruiting Iranian Kurds living in Iraqi Kurdistan to
spy on Iran's nuclear program (link in French). Here's a Google translation of the relevant portion of the article.
Mossad assets in Kurdistan
Iran has already produced enough fuel to power four warheads. But even if it be that the fuel flows through the new centrifuges Fordow. Yet no one knows if Tehran has taken such a decision fraught with consequences. In any case, the United States, the priority does not seem to stop any Iranian nuclear capability, but rather to stop the manufacture of a nuclear weapon. "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon?" Leon Panetta has called the program "Face the Nation" on CBS. "No. But we know they are trying to develop a nuclear capability. That concerns us. (But) our red line is that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons ", was keen to stress Panetta, speaking after the Iranian nuclear charge. Also during the weekend, Tehran announced the arrest of a number of "undetermined spies" who would work in Washington. True or false accusation? The fact remains that the United States and Israel have stepped up sabotage against nuclear facilities sensitive, while guided targeted assassinations of Iranian nuclear experts. "The Mossad used for this autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, where his agents have increased their penetration," said a security source in Baghdad. "The Israelis, she says, using the Kurdish opposition to the Iranian regime who are refugees in the Kurdish regions of Iraq."
Hmmm.
Labels: Iranian Kurds, Iranian nuclear program, Mossad
Delicious: 'If they screw Israel, they screw themselves too'
Guy Bechor argues that by voting in favor of a 'Palestinian state,' Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria would be sealing the future existence of a Kurdish state on major portions of their current territories. And to make it even better, that Kurdish state will be an
ally of Israel (Hat Tip:
Joshua I).
Some 850 Kurdish politicians and leaders from Turkey convened in Diyarbakir [on July 15] in order to declare the democratic autonomy’s formation. The participants included 30 Kurds who are Turkish parliamentarians. Five such representatives are in prison, by the way.
When Erdogan heard about the declaration he was furious, as the possible future implication of this is Turkey’s collapse. Turkish prosecutors then undertook an illogical step, declaring that they will indict all participants in the declaration ceremony, a move that will get Turkey in trouble with the world. The Turks were also mulling the dismissal of Kurdish parliamentarians in Ankara. These were desperate moves. The Turks can address violence and refer to it as terror, but what can they do against politicians?
...
And in Syria, that very same day, we saw another important development. For the first time, a Kurdish liaison committee was established that brings together all the new Kurdish parties in Syria on the basis of the “Kurdish people’s unity.” They demand Kurdish autonomy in the wake of the Assad regime or at least a federation within Syria.
The Syrian Kurds enjoy a particularly sympathetic home front in the Kurdish autonomy in Iraq. Slowly, the pieces of the Turkish puzzle in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran are connecting into a giant state that will be home to 18 million people. At this time already, the Kurdish region of Iraq is in fact a state with its own flag, leadership and sovereignty. In Iran too, the Kurds are rebelling and closely monitoring the progress achieved by their brethren in neighboring countries. Autonomy in one place will draw a demand for autonomy and sovereignty elsewhere.
If the two million Palestinians in Judea and Samaria deserve a state, why shouldn’t there be a state for the 18 million Kurds, who were discriminated against and exploited in the past 100 years? We can now understand the kind of dilemma faced by the four above-mentioned states – Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey – with the notion of a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. They realize that if today the Palestinians do it, the clear implication is that tomorrow the Kurds may have a UN majority. Suddenly these states understand: If they screw Israel, they screw themselves too.
And another thing: The Kurdish state will be a close ally of Israel, just like South Sudan. The Kurds are close to Israel and view it as a twin sister with a difficult history and non-Arabic identity. What we see are four states hostile to Israel in one way or another that will have to fall apart in order to give rise to an ally of Israel.
Heh.
Labels: Iranian Kurds, Iraqi Kurds, Kurdistan, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Syrian Kurds, Turkish Kurds, unilateral declaration of statehood
4 people charged in New York with running drugs, weapons for Hezbullah, Taliban
Four people have been charged in New York with running drugs and arms for the
Taliban and Hezbullah.
The charges highlighted "the growing nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism," Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters.
In the operation targeting Hezbollah, two of the men told people secretly working for the US anti-drug agency that they wanted to purchase anti-aircraft missiles and handguns for the group, court documents said.
The men, Cetin Aksu and Bachar Wehbe, were charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a known terrorist group. Aksu, a Turkish Kurd, was arrested in Bucharest, Romania on Monday. Wehbe, a Lebanese national, was in custody in Manhattan.
Siavosh Henareh, an Iranian Kurd residing in Romania, also was arrested in the operation in Bucharest on Monday. He faces drug charges after offering to sell heroin to the US agents, court papers said. He faces a minimum of 10 years in prison if convicted.
Aksu and Wehbe also face heroin distribution charges. Each faces a minimum of 25 years in prison if convicted.
In a separate operation, US officials charged an Afghan man, Taza Gul Alizai, with selling heroin and weapons to a US law-enforcement source posing as a member of the Taliban, which the US considers a terrorist organization.
Alizai faces narco-terrorism and drug distribution charges, He faces a minimum of 20 years in prison if convicted. He was arrested on Monday and is in custody in Manhattan.
You will note that two of the people arrested were Kurds. Lately, I have written some posts calling for the establishment of a state of Kurdistan, and I have been contacted by people in that area who read my blog. I stand by those posts.
I have no idea whether the two people arrested just happen to be Kurds, or whether they are connected to the PKK or other Kurdish revolutionary forces. I hope that they just happened to be Kurds and are not connected to the Kurdish revolutionary forces.
The Kurdish people have to decide whether they are with Israel, and want Israel to help open the West to them, or whether they are with the likes of Hezbullah and the Taliban. They cannot have it both ways.
Labels: Hezbullah, Iranian Kurds, Kurdistan, Taliban, Turkish Kurds
